Please can you tell me as much info as you can about elizabeth proctor and her character in "the crucible"

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I also need information on Abigail Williams although this is not essentail and could I have comparisons between these two characters. I could also do with this in an essay format. Thanx

Answer 1

She was John's third wife and married to him for 18 years.
She was in charge of running the family tavern.
Elizabeth fought on two occasions with Robert Stone over an unpaid bar tab.
Her grandmother, Ann B. Lynn, was once suspected of witchcraft.
Mary Warren testified that Elizabeth tried to make her sign the "Devil's Book."
Since she was pregnant at the time of her condemnation, she was able to avoid execution at her appointed time.
By the time she had her child, those convicted of witchcraft had been pardoned. Thus, her unborn child saved her life.
Although pardoned, she was still a convicted felon in the eyes of the law and barred from claiming any of her husband's property.
On December 17, 1710, 578 pounds and 12 shillings was paid to her in restitution for her husband's death


Of the major characters, Abigail is the least complex. She is clearly the villain of the play, more so than Parris or Danforth: she tells lies, manipulates her friends and the entire town, and eventually sends nineteen innocent people to their deaths. Throughout the hysteria, Abigail’s motivations never seem more complex than simple jealousy and a desire to have revenge on Elizabeth Proctor. The language of the play is almost Biblical, and Abigail seems like a Biblical character—a Jezebel figure, driven only by sexual desire and a lust for power. Nevertheless, it is worth pointing out a few background details that, though they don’t mitigate Abigail’s guilt, make her actions more understandable.
Abigail is an orphan and an unmarried girl; she thus occupies a low rung on the Puritan Salem social ladder (the only people below her are the slaves, like Tituba, and social outcasts). For young girls in Salem, the minister and the other male adults are God’s earthly representatives, their authority derived from on high. The trials, then, in which the girls are allowed to act as though they have a direct connection to God, empower the previously powerless Abigail. Once shunned and scorned by the respectable townsfolk who had heard rumors of her affair with John Proctor, Abigail now finds that she has clout, and she takes full advantage of it. A mere accusation from one of Abigail’s troop is enough to incarcerate and convict even the most well-respected inhabitant of Salem. Whereas others once reproached her for her adultery, she now has the opportunity to accuse them of the worst sin of all: devil-worship.

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Answer 2

she is a charater who is married to a greedy man who awants more land. and has lost 8 childern in child birth. and thinks the devil has killed them. she "starts" the whole thing kinda.