Abigail Abuse In The Crucible

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, it shows that even those with so little can have power over a lot. Abigail Williams is a good example of this, With her low social position as an orphan, unmarried teenager, and worst of all for her; she's female. To make it worse, Elizabeth Proctor has also been going around telling the town that Abigail is a whore, lowering Abby's social status even more. With this in mind, it's understandable that Abigail would seize any chance to gain power.

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Abigail is the most to blame for the Salem Witch Trials. During the beginning of the play, Abigail, Tituba, and some other girls from the village are caught dancing in the woods in the middle of the night, which was a sin during that time period. Abigail Williams is the seventeen year old niece of Rev.Samuel Parris who is the town's minister. She was hired by John and Elizabeth Proctor to help tend to the house and help care for their three sons because Elizabeth was a very sickly woman. One day Elizabeth caught John committing adultery with Abigail, and she was fired on the spot. After this, Elizabeth began to tell her friends not to hire Abigail because she might try to do the same with their husbands too. Abigail was very

In The Crucible, I assume that the character Abigail is a static character. Abigail is considered a static character for the reason that no matter what her feelings never change. She does whatever she is yearning to be happy with herself. It makes no difference if she is hurting other people as long she is joyous. An example is how she accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch even though it's not true. She only did it for the reason that she thought she would be able to be with John Proctor. The character John Proctor is a dynamic character. John is considered a dynamic character because he changes his feelings in the entire play. In the beginning he was a quiet farmer and now he is a brave man with a great deal of courage. In the beginning

People are very impressionable, especially children. Abigail used destructive power to cause chaos in Salem. In the Crucible she is viewed as strong-willed and independent. She manipulated and used people against each other as a stepping stone to hysteria.

In The Crucible, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and Elizabeth Proctor are arguably the most important characters. The affair between Abigail and John drives the plot of the play. Abigail begins accusing societal outcasts as witches and gradually works her way up the social ladder until she is able to accuse an upstanding citizen like Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch and having people believe the accusation. She accused Elizabeth of being a witch so that Elizabeth would be hanged. Then, Abigail would have John Proctor all to herself. Abigail, while certainly diabolical and ruthless, is rather misrepresented. Abigail has received nothing but tragedy in her life; short, though it is at this point. Her parents are killed in front of her at a very young age and while there is not anyway you can take that in a sympathetic aspect, seeing as she uses it to convince the girls to do her bidding, it is very clear that this image has stuck with her. The Crucible paints John in the position of a tragic hero and then ineluctably places Abigail in the light of an antagonist with no hope of retribution. Once you commend John for his actions, you must implicate Abigail for hers. Simply stated, Abigail should not just be incriminated based on what information we are provided. Abigail, while still very much faulty in her actions, deserves to be examined at a deeper level to provide you with the full understanding of just why this woman’s scorning was her breaking point.

Tituba was a women considered to be an outcasts of the village since she has very little dignity in being a slave. These false accusations lead Tituba to be condemned to death. This unjust act is only the beginning of a series of false allegations that take control of Salem, as well as the spreading of paranoia and hysteria through the village. This finally results in the deaths of the some of the main characters, such as Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor, for carrying out acts of witchcraft.

All people commissioned to hang in Salem were innocent… how did they end up there? Through the lies and accusations of Abigail, a teenager whose head was filled with power, revenge, and her reputation. In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible he clearly shows that Abigail is guilty in more ways than one. She is guilty of lies…accusation… and even murder.

“We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!”(Miller,196).The Crucible,a play written by Arthur Miller, starts off in 1692, in the small Massachusetts village of Salem. In which a collection of girls fall ill causing them to undergo hallucinations and seizures. But really there is a true mastermind behind the downfall of Salem. Although others may not agree, in the novel The Crucible the one to blame for the outcome of the play is Abigail. Due to her desire to be with John Proctor thus leading her to threaten, frame, and attempt murder.

Abigail originally commits these sins because she is in love with John Proctor. When she had a one time affair with John, she immediately fell in love. John, however, did not feel the same way and only saw it as lust. When Elizabeth Proctor fired her from her service, Abigail create a vendetta to ruin her life. When Abigail originally gets questioned about why she was fired from Goody Proctor’s service she instinctively gets defensive about how Goody Proctor only tells lies. Abigail tries to make John Proctor doubt his loyal wife by saying, “She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold sniveling woman, and you bend to her! Let her turn you like a-” (Miller 15). This quote perfectly exemplifies the malice of Abigail. In this quote, she spits lies for the ultimate goal to marry ‘the love of her life’. Abby’s envious attitude toward Elizabeth ensures the fact that she will not stop to get what she wants. Abigail also creates a poppet in court and uses Mary Warren as bait to plant in the Proctor’s house, which leads to Elizabeth Proctor getting taken by As evident here, her extreme jealousy makes her turn to petty name calling in order to create hesitation in John’s mind and a slight chance that Abigail might be his true

Abigail Williams, the niece of Reverend Parris, is one of the girls who led the accusations in the trials. The Crucible shows her selfish desires when she speaks to John Proctor, “And now you bid me to tear the light out of my eyes? I will not! I cannot!” (Miller, 1110). This example shows a desperate want Abigail has towards John Proctor. She is denying living in a world where she cannot be his love and one where she cannot love him. Here is her main motivation that the reader can see throughout the entire play. When showing Abigail's desperate motivations, Miller gives causes for her future actions. One action that was a response to this motivation can be seen from Elizabeth, John Proctor’s wife, when she learns of Abigail’s action against her, “She wants me dead. I knew all week it would come to this” (Miller, 1127). Here we see Abigail’s motivation to be with John Proctor into action. Her selfish want leads he to purposely accuse Elizabeth of witchcraft. One can see the Abigail wishes to get rid of anything that stands between her and John Proctor. She hopes that Elizabeth can be executed so she may join with John without any consequences. She does not care about how John feels, which ties into her selfish

“You drank blood, Abby! You didn`t tell him that!” “Betty, you never say that again! You will never¬¬---” “You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor`s wife!

In Act II of The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail has a drastic effect on the town without being present in the play by condemning many people to horrible witchcraft accusations and creating a sense of fear and paranoia in the town. To begin, Abigail makes merciless accusations of many people being bewitched. This is often solely done because Abigail has feeling of disdain towards the person. This is evident by this quote exclaimed by Elizabeth Proctor, “She will cry me out until they take me!” (Miller 1274). Elizabeth is fearful and appalled because Abigail accuses her of being a witch. There is no just cause or evidence for this claim, but Abigail Williams is a crazy girl who is engulfed with jealousy; she only accuses Elizabeth of being

In Act 3, Abigail goes all out and lies hysterically. In doing so she hoped to get what she wants, attention and most importantly, John Proctor. Intentionally, Abigail started acting out because she realized she had the power to turn in anyone she wanted, and all she had to do was accused them as a witch. The girls had realized what she was doing and caught on, starting to do the same as her. Abigail and the girls started calling out random people, and so did others after believing that witchcraft may be a possible thing.

The real devil running around in Salem is not Abigail but John Proctor. Why you may ask if the villain of the story is Abigail the one wrongly accusing innocent people of witchcraft and sending them to their death. Well, a villain is a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot. Even though Abigail fits this description, there is one thing that's no one ever takes a second thought to; that maybe she wasn't a villain from the start. Both in the play and movie, it was said that 8 months before all the hysteria John didn't have anything going on with Elizabeth at the time and Abigail was a servant for them. Abigail is a young pretty girl John was easily interested in her and by not keep it in his pants he had an affair with her in the barn. John is also known for his famous whip, he could of force Abigail to have sex with him in the barn because of his higher status. Abigail being a child had her world turned upside down when she had an affair with John and because of this she turned all boy crazy and did all the terrible thing that she did.

Abigail interferes with the courts’ divine ability to accuse witches because her lustful intentions which allows her to put on masterful acts to convince the audience that she is telling the truth. During the second act of The Crucible, Abigail’s relationship with John Proctor is revealed. Whenever