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Crucible "Jealousy Can Destroy Lives"
October 26, 2012

Jealousy Can Destroy Lives First loves can be the best thing that the world has to offer. The feeling that you get when you see your special someone walk towards you. The fact that you remember everything little thing that he/she did for you that makes you feel like you are the happiest boy/girl in the whole world. Despite all of the good reasons that love brings, love can also be the most selfish and heartbreaking thing if the person who you love does not feel the same way. In the play, The
Crucible, Abigail fell in love with John Proctor. Elizabeth Proctor had been sick for a long time and Abigail was there for John when Elizabeth could not. Abigail knew that she could not have
John to herself because he is a married man. She also wouldn’t stop until he was hers. She also meant that she will get between anyone or anything that will get in the way. In many books and movies, there is always a protagonist who gets the girl/guy of their dreams and an antagonist who is trying to break them apart. In the story Cinderella, after prince charming searched the town to find the owner of a glass slipper, Cinderella was the only girl in the whole town who had not tried it on. Cinderella’s stepmother knew that it was Cinderella who danced with the prince, but they did not want Cinderella to marry the prince because the stepmother was after the prince’s fortune. This says that many people in the world interferes with others love lives for their own selfish reasons. If Cinderella never tried on that glass slipper when her stepmother told her to, she would have never found her happiness, and that was what the stepmother wanted because she always thought highly of herself and never saw herself losing to an ugly low class person. From the play, The Crucible, Abigail was a 16 year old girl, who fell in love with a married man, John Proctor. Abigail was still a young girl who never loved before. When
Elizabeth

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