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What does the court do with john proctor?

They hang him because he refused to give judge Danforth the testimony that he had signed stating his confession.


What reason did George Wickham give Elizabeth for hating Darcy?

Darcy refused to pay wickham some money from an inheritance. ----- Wickham accused Darcy of refusing to comply with his father's dying wish to give Wickham a living as a parish pastor on Darcy's estate. Wickham never claimed he had been any money as an inheritance. What actually happened was that Wickham refused to be ordained as a clergyman, which meant he was not qualified to be a pastor. He asked Darcy for the money equivalent of the living, and he was given this. In lying to Elizabeth, he claimed he had wanted to be a clergyman, but was prevented from doing so. He also neglected to say he had been given an equivalent value of money instead.


How is Macbeth's claim that he will sleep no more foreshadowed by the witches in Act I.iii?

That is what the First Witch does to the Master of the Tiger, after his wife refused to give the witch chestnuts. "I will drain him dry as hay; sleep shall neither night nor day hang upon his pent-house lid. He shall live a man forbid."


How did the first witch plan to punish the sailor's wife who refused to give her chestnuts?

In Act 1 Scene 3, the first witch told the second witch about a sailor's wife who wouldn't share her chestnuts. She planned to punish the wife through the husband, who was headed for Aleppo, Syria. She was going to brew up a horrible storm, a tempest, to keep the sailor's ship from sailing into port.


Explain the situation between Antigone's brothers Polynices and Etiocles?

Etiocles refused to give up the rightful throne to Polynices when it was his time to rule, so Polynices led a fight against his very own city, Thebes. During battle, both brothers killed each other. King Creon properly buried Etiocles but left Polynices to rot in the sun and be eaten by scavengers for betraying his city.