Abigail Williams Flaws In The Crucible

One of the characters in the story is Abigail Williams. She is a young manipulative lying girl that will do anything for her love, John Proctor. Abigail is held responsible for the charges of many women in Salem at the time. While many people view Abigail Williams as a saint, she is actually motivated by selfishness.

One of Abigail’s main flaws is jealousy. She was in love with a man named John Proctor, who was married to somebody else. John Proctor and Abigail had had an affair previously, before the accusations of witchcraft started. Abigail was jealous because she wanted John Proctor, but he did not want her. Not only did this make her jealous, but this also made her dour. In Act one of The Crucible, Abigail and John Proctor have a conversation, saying “John-I am waiting for you every night.” John Proctor then says, “Abby, I never give you hope to wait for me.” Abigail says, “I have something better than hope, I think!” John Proctor then turns down Abigail by saying, “Abby, you’ll put it out of mind. I’ll not be comin’ for you more (Miller Act I). This is can be an intimation from John to Abigail that he does not love her anymore. These quotes prove that Abigail was eager for John Proctor’s love, but that he did not want to love her back.

      Abigail Williams’ main cause for her wild accusations is a selfish one. It is to be with John Proctor, a married man with whom she has an affair. She is sent away but all she thinks of is being reunited with him. Abigail drinks blood, wishing to be with John Proctor, which could happen only if his wife Elizabeth died. She then, after committing adultery and contributing to the breaking of a marriage, is not through. Abigail pursues John and does not recognize that the affair is over. She conveys this in saying “I have something better than hope, I think!” (22). Abigail does not just miss her love, she becomes ruthless to get him back.

One on Abigail’s villainous traits is her deviousness. For Example, Abigail threatens the girls by saying“...I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ heads on the pillow next to mine and I have seen reddish work done at night and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down” (Miller 13). This shows that Abigail is devious because she threatens to kill the girls if they tell the truth so she doesn’t get

Abigail is a selfish person since the beginning she was willing to do anything to get Proctor to herself and get out of trouble. For example she falsely accused people of witchcraft like Mary Warren and Elizabeth Proctor just so that she won't get in trouble and get Proctor to himself.. She wanted Proctor to herself even though he was married to Elizabeth and was willing to do anything to take her spot.

She was a good liar and she tries to control things in Salem . Throughout, the play she was sending innocent people to jail or they were hanged. John Procter was hanged to death because he did not want to sign his confession. He refused to sign his confession because he does not want to be used as an example. Elizabeth said " Give them no fear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor how, show heart and sink them with it!" ( Miller 151). Elizabeth is a strong woman because she was right there by her husband side through everything he has been through. He did not deserve what he had to go through. Another, way that shows that Abigail is self confident person is how she have the girls that are in her group was scared of her. When Mary Warren was trying to tell the truth about the doll. When Abigail was scared to talk in front of them. Throughout, the play when Mary was talking to Abigail and the girls was mocking everything she said. She started to get mad and then she ran out of the court, into the water. Everyone that was in the court follow her. Mary started crying began to says, " He wake me every night, his eyes were like coals and his fingers claw my neck, and I sign, I sign." ( Miller 124). Hale tries to tell the judge that she has gone wild, but he does not believe him. Mary began saying she love God and she is not going to John way no more. John was so anger, so he began

In the play, The Crucible, Abigail Williams is a very interesting character. Abigail’s main motivation throughout the play was enviness and revenge. At the beginning of the play it was well known that Abigail had an affair with John Proctor and was dismissed from her job because his wife had found out about them. Abigail was very angry at John’s wife Elizabeth because she was “blackening” her name in the village and “telling lies” about her. Abigail was very envious of Elizabeth, because she was in love John, and believed Elizabeth was the only thing coming between their “relationship”. The night Abigail and the girls were dancing in the woods, she went as far as drinking a “blood charm” in hope of it killing Elizabeth.

Her thoughts were of a mad man. Only thinking of one goal to accomplish, doing anything and everything in her power to achieve that one goal. Her actions were just as mad. She deliberately lied to everyone in the town of Salem, just to have one woman put to death. She even purposefully harmed herself to make sure that Mary Warren was sentenced to death. Her interactions with other people were just as dark. She acted somewhat respectful to one man, John Proctor. That was only to regain his favor though. She deceived everyone in the village of Salem, all for her own selfish needs. Abigail Williams alone caused one of the most gruesome events in this nation’s history. Let’s just hope we can learn from the mistakes made at

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Abigail Williams is an individual that only cares for herself. She lacks a conscience, and governs her actions with her ‘love’ for John Proctor. She wants to kill Elizabeth and marry John to gain a higher social status within the community.

Abigail Williams commands both fear and respect throughout the story. Not only does Abigail have a powerful influence over Salem, but also her power and social status intensify tremendously. The justice system plays a huge part in heightening her influence in Salem. Abigail is the leader of the girls who are being accused of witchcraft and demands them for respect. She too becomes frightened and cultivates a deadly influence on people, especially the other girls. She threatens them by telling them to keep everything they did in the woods a secret. Keeping it all a secret will help prevent the public from creating any false concepts or them being accused of witchcraft. Many people who play a role with Abigail at this time feel threatened.

At the beginning of the story, Abigail symbolizes the characteristic of being bossy. When she and a group of young girls from Salem are caught by Reverend Parris, the group of girls become frantic and flee back to town. Before the story begins, the audience

Abigail Williams was a young girl who lived with Betty Parris. Abigail was jealous of Elizabeth Proctor, the wife of John Proctor. She was in love with John, as John had committed adultery with Abigail. She wanted to get Elizabeth out of the picture so that she could have John for herself. Abigail

Abigail Williams, the biggest player in this triangle, is introduced as a cunningly deceitful person. She worked at the Proctor household previously and had an affair with John Proctor and now desperately wants to marry him. She feels that Elizabeth is unworthy of him and abhors her (“Oh, I marvel how such a strong man may let such a sickly

    The first reason Abigail can be characterized as despicable is because she lets her jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor cloud her judgement which eventually leads to the imprisonment of Elizabeth. Abigail is jealous of Elizabeth because she is married to John Proctor and during the time that Abigail was working for the Proctor’s, John and Abigail had an affair. Elizabeth sensed the feelings between the two and she understandably dismissed Abigail. Abigail tried to accuse Elizabeth of witchcraft to take her out of the picture so she could marry John and have him to herself because she believes that John is in love with her and mistakes his blushes in church for affection for her rather than shame for his sins of lechery. Abigail gets upset with John when he tells Abigail that he loves his wife and will not let her be hanged even if it means outing Abigail for lying and himself for lechery. Abigail also claimed that Elizabeth wanted to