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Does everyone deserve compassion&forgiveness?

I think it depends on the situation and the circumstances I'd someone should receive compassion and forgiveness, but in this case, Abigail should not receive forgiveness. First of all, you cannot receive forgiveness if you are not sorry and do not ask for it. She was the cause of many unnecessary deaths of innocent people who did not deserve to die. Abigail did not even seem to care about killing innocent lives, but was rather more consumed in herself and what was going to happen to her. She is so selfish that instead of fixing a problem and saving a few lives, her uncle has to tell people the immature action she did, "my niece, sir, my niece- I believe she has vanished" (IV.144). Abigail runs away from her problems instead of facing the consequences of her awful actions. She left their town forever, and never came back, never apologizing, and therefore cannot receive forgiveness. There was a reason for her evil deeds, and her parents may have something to do with her malicious actions. She was scarred as a child with the murder of her parents right in front of her eyes. After her parents died she did not have a strong parental figure for her to look up to, but instead lived with her uncle whom could not be more self centered. Because of this, she may have a better reason for being mentally unstable than no reason, however this does not makeup for her actions. I believe this may result in her deserving a little compassion, but no forgiveness. On the contrary, John Proctor deserved both compassion and forgiveness. John apologized for his mistake and truly sis feel sorry for hurting his wife by having and affair with Abigail. He was a good man and tried to save everyone accused life by putting his own at risk, "I have know her[Abigail], sir. I have know her" (III. 842). By John confessing it results in him being accused of witchcraft and eventually dying because he was trying to save the lives of others. Because of this he deserved Elizabeth's forgiveness, and also compassion for dying, when he did not deserve to. These pictures show kittens comforting each other, showing compassion towards one another, like the compassion John and Abigail (a little bit) deserved. Flowers represent someone apologizing. And the girl in the picture is being unforgiving of the boy, like how Abigail did not deserve to be forgiven.

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The crucible

By Francesca