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Conflict, a dictionary definition:

• Conflict is disagreement and argument.
• When there is a conflict of ideas or interests, people have different ideas or interests which cannot all be satisfied.

In Act one there are conflicts between Abigail and Elizabeth. Abigail wants Elizabeth dead because she is in love with her husband, John Proctor. Abigail wuick defences become an attack as she is quick to blame other people and bring other people into the frame, such as Goody Proctor (Elizabeth). Abigail begins to accuse her of witchcraft and describes her as a bitter women, ''My name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name is soiled! Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar!''

Abigail is also annoyed with Elizabeth as she fired her from her job as their servant, because of Abigail's affair with John. Abigail accused Elizabeth as being a witch so as she will be hanged.

Also in Act one conflicts between Parris and Proctor. Proctor cannot stan Parris as he disagrees with the way he runs the church and the community. Proctor believes that Parris is not doing his job as a minister properly. ''I regard that six pound as part of my salary, I am paid little enough without I spend six pound on firewood,'' (Parris), ''Sixty plus six for firewood,'' (Proctor), ''The salary is sixty-six pound, Mr Proctor! I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard college,'' (Parris). As a minister Parris's main interests shouldn't lie in the matter of money it should be for the safety of his community, which at this point could have been in trouble.

Throughout the play Abigial victimises the other young girls of the community. She manipulates them into agreeing with her so as she won't be hanged. The young girls follow her and don't care of the consequences. ''Now look you, all of you, we danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of the night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.'' (page 14).

In Act one Mrs Putnam believes that is was Rebecca Nurse who killed her children who died in infancy, except from one. She believes that this was an Act of witchcraft which later leads to Rebecca's death, as she was hanged.

By the end, conflict begins to take over the play. Citizens in Salem accuse anyone and everyone of witchcraft, not because od any witchcraft performed, but because of personal reasons. Most of them do not realise that the only person who performed any witchcraft-related act in their midst is Abigail Williams, the person who made the accusations.

By: Rebecca, Danielle and Evelyn.