The Crucible Study Guide
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someone using false accusations against a scapegoat in order to save themselves
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witch hunt
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the year the Salem Witch Trials took place when The Crucible was set
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1692
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where mass witch hunts had begun
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Europe
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what was used as a justification for executing witches
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The Bible
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the guidebook for identifying witches (Latin)
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Malleus Maleficarum
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the guidebook for identifying witches (English)
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The Hammer of the Witches
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the test of finding what on found on a suspect's skin
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witch's teats
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the test that the witch either drowned or was executed
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swimming a witch
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evidence that is only seen by the person doing the accusing
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spectral evidence
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confesses to being a witch and eventually gets sent home
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Tituba
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where Tituba is from
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Barbados
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pressed to death by stones
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Giles Corey
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the first girl to be sick due to the incident in the woods
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Betty Parris
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the doctor in Salem
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Doctor Griggs
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the girl that got a little bit too excited and got naked in the woods
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Mercy Lewis
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main goal throughout the novel is to keep his good reputation
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Reverend Parris
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who Parris asks if their name is "entirely white" in the town
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Abigail Williams
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the act that Betty was seen performing in Act I
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flying
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the second girl that is sick in Act I
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Ruth Putnam
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called to Salem because of his history with the demonic arts and he found a witch in Beverly the previous year
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Reverend Hale
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the girl in Act I that tells all the girls that they should just confess from the start about what they were doing
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Mary Warren
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who Abigail was trying to kill by drinking blood in the forest
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Elizabeth Proctor
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hardcore since when she was little she saw Indians kill her parents
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Abigail Williams
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had an affair with Abigail but is now married and doesn't think of her anymore
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John Proctor
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is unable to listen to people singing psalms
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Betty Parris
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who is first blamed by Abigail for making the girls cast spells in the forest
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Tituba
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"The devil can never overcome a minister."
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Reverend Hale
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confesses to being bewitched at the end of Act I to spread the blame away quicker
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Abigail Williams
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older and represents a voice of reason
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Rebecca Nurse
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doesn't like Reverend Parris preaching fire and brimstone and rarely attends church
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John Proctor
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concerned about his wife reading strange books
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Giles Corey
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believes witchcraft is at work in Act I
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Ann Putnam
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"I pray you feel the weight of the truth upon you, for now my ministry's at stake, my ministry and perhaps your cousin's life."
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Reverend Parris
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"I saw your face when she put me out, and you loved me then and you do now!"
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Abigail Williams
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"I think you'd best send Reverend Hale back as soon as he come. This will set us all to arguin' again in the society, and we ought to have peace this year."
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Rebecca Nurse
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"Now let me instruct you. We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone, and I must tell you all that I shall not proceed unless you are prepare to believe me if I should find no bruise of hell upon her."
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Reverend Hale
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"I do believe somebody else be witchin' these children."
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Tituba
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makes Abigail nervous and intimidates her
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Reverend Parris
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sent by her mom into the forest to conjure up her dead babies
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Ruth Putnam
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his most powerful weapons are his books
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Reverend Hale
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the author of The Crucible
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Arthur Miller
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the senator whose actions inspired The Crucible to be written
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Joseph McCathy
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when The Crucible was written
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1953
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"It is winter in here yet."
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John Proctor
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asks her husband to testify that everything is a sham
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Elizabeth Proctor
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does not trust he husband and asks him to break it off with Abigail
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Elizabeth Proctor
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given to Elizabeth from Mary Warren
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doll
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how many people were accused of witchcraft by Act II
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wants The Proctors to stop ordering her around so she can go watch the trials
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Mary Warren
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comes to The Proctor House to see how religious it is
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Reverend Hale
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the commandment that John Proctor forgets to name
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adultery
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charged with the supernatural murder of Ann Putnam's dead babies
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Rebecca Nurse
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charged with witchcraft after selling pigs to a man and supposedly killing them off
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Martha Corey
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comes to The Proctor House to arrest Elizabeth
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Ezekiel Cheever
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stuck a needle in her stomach to further blame Elizabeth
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Abigail Williams
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asks Reverend Hale why the accuser is always seen to be innocent
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John Proctor
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is demanded by John Proctor that she testifies in court
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Mary Warren
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claims to be an official of the court
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Mary Warren
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viewed by the Salem community as a saint and as God's instrument
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Abigail Williams
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bothered by the golden candlesticks at church
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John Proctor
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chains the accused to the wagon
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Marshall Herrick
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"I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me...If the girl's a saint now, I think it is not easy to prove she's fraud, and the town gone so silly."
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John Proctor
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"Then go and tell her she's a *****. Whatever promise she may sense--break it."
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Elizabeth Proctor
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"In my ignorance I find it hard to draw a clear opinion of them that come accused before court. And so this afternoon, and now tonight, I go from house to house."
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Reverend Hale
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"You have a faulty understanding of young girls. There is a promise make in any bed."
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Elizabeth Proctor
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"We are only what we always were, but naked now...And the wind, God's icy wind, will blow!"
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John Proctor
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"The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you."
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Elizabeth Proctor
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who Reverend Hale tells everyone to trust to take care of everything
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the court
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is dragged to court with her deposition to prove that Abigail is lying
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Mary Warren
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the reason why Elizabeth is not sentenced to death
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pregnancy
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what Mary Warren is asked to do in order to prove that she and the girls were just pretending
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faint
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tells the court that John Proctor did not have an affair even though he already confessed to it
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Elizabeth Proctor
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what Mary Warren calls John Proctor when she joins the girls in their accusations in the court
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The Devil's Man
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"God is dead!"
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John Proctor
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quits the court after Mary Warren switches to side with Abigail
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Reverend Hale
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bitter Salem judge who is uptight and takes his job very seriously
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Judge Hawthorne
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committed to his job but isn't as uptight as Judge Hawthorne
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Governor Danforth
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"We burn a hot fire here: it melts down all concealment."
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Governor Danforth
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claimed John Proctor damned the court and ripped the warrant
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Ezekiel Cheever
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how many people signed off so Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey, and Elizabeth Proctor could go free
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"Remember what the angel Raphael said to the boy Tobias."
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John Proctor
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a written sworn testimony called at trial for the opposition
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deposition
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claims Thomas Putnam is killing off his neighbors in order to acquire their land
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Giles Corey
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wants John Proctor to get a lawyer so he can better defend himself
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Reverend Hale
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his first charge against Abigail was plotting to murder Elizabeth
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John Proctor
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suddenly appears to the girls in court as a yellow bird trying to attack them
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Mary Warren
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where Abigail planned her and John to flee to
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Boston
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wants Elizabeth to convince John to confess so he is not killed
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Reverend Hale
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the only thing John Proctor has left at the end of the play
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his name
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"There is blood on my head!"
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Reverend Hale
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what Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey, and John Proctor do at the end which proves them to be innocent
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The Lord's Prayer
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the leading character/champion of the main idea
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protagonist
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the protagonist in The Crucible
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John Proctor
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the active opposer to the protagonist and the main movement
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antagonist
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the antagonist in The Crucible
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Abigail Williams
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struggle between a character and an outside force
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external conflict
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struggle within a character's mind
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internal conflict
