Proctor is identified with the quality of "lust" in his private conversation with Abigail. Though he refuses her advances, his former affair with her is exposed. Prior to the action of the play, Abigail was a servant in Proctor's house, as Mary Warren is during the play. She is "released" from her duties at the Proctor house when Elizabeth finds out about the affair. The town wonders why Abigail was fired, as Parris discusses in the...
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