Abigail Williams In The Crucible

Soon the town gets wind of this event and it gets back around to Parris. When Abigail fears she will be caught she blames Tituba and threatens the other girls with “...a pointy reckoning...” (Miller Act 1 scene 1 line 358). Although this is a bad deal for Abigail, it is not her only problem. The affair that Abigail had with John Proctor has affected her and she is infatuated with him.

Abigail Williams seems to be a despicable character in the story The Crucible. She causes do much trouble throughout the story starting from when the girls were in the woods dancing naked with Tituba. Abby says “She sends her spirit on me in church; she makes me laugh at prayer” (Miller,1154). Abigail uses Tituba to take the blame for all the girls speaking spirits and being in the woods. She manipulates people into believing and seeing what she wants them to see she is a very decisive

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller Abigail Williams is responsible for the tragedy in Salem due to her relentless desire to be loved by John Proctor, her direful childhood, and her dissembling character towards others. The tragedy in Salem is majorly affected by Abigail's accusations and lies in order to be loved by John Proctor. Abigail used to work for John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth as a servant. It wasn’t until John had an affair with Abigail, that she was kicked out due to Elizabeth’s jealousy. Abigail was infuriated by such an act, so she exclaimed that she would get rid of Elizabeth in order to keep John all to herself. As a sign of revenge, Abigail proclaimed that she had worked with the devil, so she can accuse anyone in

Abigail Williams, the niece of the local minister Reverend Parris, starts and also continually stokes the fire of mass hysteria throughout Salem. Abigail’s reasons for creating a situation which kills multiple Salem townsfolk is because of simple jealousy and resentment that John Proctor chooses his wife over Abigail. Proctor, a respected farmer in Salem, eventually dies at the play’s conclusion because

Abigail was the victim of the effects of witnessing her parents die. Abigail told the girls “ I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ head on the pillow next to mine…” (Miller 144) This cruel event she experienced at such a young age caused Abigail to act heartless. Abigail witnessed something tragic, her heart was smashed into pieces. Witnessing someone you love die, changes you and often brings you into the dark. Suffering from that sort of pain, its expected she would be full of vengeance. Abigail warns the girls “... come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” (Miller 144) Abigail issued a consequence if the girls spoke of what happened in the woods. She had no way to process the anger because she had been brought up by violence and it desensitized her. Abigail was coming from a place of tragedy and despair, her spoken words were not her true intentions.

I was told to assume that you’re an adolescent or an adult who has read The Crucible. Knowing this allows me to also assume that you think Abigail Williams is as evil as Adolf Hitler. Well I’m here to tell you that you couldn’t be more incorrect. While her lies led to several hangings, it would be unfair to say it was all just because she was “evil”. She is a product of how she the environment she was raised in, a victim of a tragedy, and influenced by outside forces.

Abigail Williams was a very powerful girl throughout The Crucible. She was a very twisted and mean girl. She tries to save herself by digging herself into a huge lie. She is the leader of the group of girls who were claiming to doing witchcraft. Abigail is the niece of Reverend Parris, which is kind of a coincidence because she is using witchcraft and doing things of the Devil. Reverend Parris finds her and her group of friends dancing in the woods naked putting spells on people and doing witchcraft. Abigail’s cousin, Betty, who was part of the group of girls, does not wake up the next morning. People were saying that she was a part of the Devil and was using witchcraft. So there is a hint. Then when Mary Warren was trying to say that the girls were just lying

Abigail is an orphan raised by her uncle Samuel Parris and lived with her cousin Betty Parris. When she was only eleven years old she saw her parents die in front of her. “I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ head on the pillow next to mine.” This brutal attack obviously left mental issues with Abigail. Also, Abigail was not the most popular girl in her town, she had a lot of social issues that made her feel alone. Abigail and John had an affair and Elizabeth, Johns wife, found out and started telling the town that Abigail was sleazy and this lowered her social status even more. Abigail manipulates the town of Salem because she was a host of the witchcraft but when the girls were caught she blamed it on others. She threatened the girls not to say a word about dancing in the woods naked because she did not want to get

This is later confirmed when she threatens to “come to [them] in the black of some terrible night and … bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder” (Pg.175) Mary Warren and Betty Parris if they dare to tell the truth. This shows her determination at killing Elizabeth Proctor and securing her own reputation. Unlike many naive villains in other literatures, Abigail sets out a meticulous scheme to frame Elizabeth. First, she witnesses Mary Warren leaving a needle in a doll. Then she “[sticks] two inches [of a needle] in the flesh of her belly”(pg. 203) to frame Elizabeth of performing witchcraft. So mendacious is Abigail that she is willing to injure herself to accomplish her plan. Under her beautiful appearance also lays a manipulative heart. She is capable of manipulating not only the girls into doing things her way, but also the members of the court to her advantage. When questioned by Danforth whether the spirits she has seen are illusion, Abigail steps it up a notch by making the members of the court feel sorry for her and madly refutes, “I have been near to murdered every day because I done my duty pointing out the Devil’s people—and this is my reward? To be mistrusted, denied, questioned like a—” (Pg.210) This, following by Elizabeth's failure to tell the truth and the girl’s verisimilar acting toward the “yellow bird”, further demonstrates her manipulative power which brings the court in her favor. Altogether, many

During the whole play Abigail threatens her so called friends and turns on them at the slightest sense of unfaithfulness. In the beginning of the play after the girls were caught in the woods Abigail threatens to kill her friends if they tell the truth about what they did and what she did in the woods. ...“We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. [If] you breathe a word or the edge of a word, about the other things . . . I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy

The main character in the play Abigail Williams is to blame for the 1692 witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. She was seen as a hero and a saint instead of a mean and cruel person who always wants things to go her way, no matter who she hurts in the process. Through out the play her lies cause many people suffering and death, but she never cared what happened to any of them except John Proctor. He had an affair with Abigail a few months from the beginning of the play. John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth used to hire Abigail, until Elizabeth found out about the affair and fired Abigail. Although John told Abigail that he was done with the affair and he would never go back to her again, she tried very hard to get back his love. "Abby, I may

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.

Abigail Williams is depicted as a deceitful, manipulative, and troubled girl in the play. Abigail was the first of the afflicted girls to accuse residents of Salem

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Miller demonstrated that it was Abigail’s flaws- lust, jealousy, and mendacity- that led her to be responsible the most for the tragedy of the witch-hunt in Salem. The Crucible focuses of the finding of young girls and a slave messing around in the woods, trying to conjure spirits from the dead. Rather than admit to their actions and face the consequences, the girls accuse everyone else of the crimes they were guilty of. Abigail Williams is the person who caused much of the drama in this story. She bears much responsibility for everyone meeting with Tituba in the woods. Once Parris discovers this meeting, Abigail attempts to keep her actions a secret because it would possibly reveal her affair with Proctor. Abigail lies to cover up her affair with proctor, and to stop the charges of witchcraft in order to prevent the terrible punishments that go along with the accusations.

Abigail is a highly jealous character, concentrating her jealousy on Elizabeth Proctor. This jealousy is driven by lust and her desire for John Proctor. Abigail served as a servant in the Proctor household and after an affair with her husband John, Elizabeth fired her. She still resents Elizabeth for this as she is still in love with John. She clearly says to John, "You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!" Abigail is still in love with John and she assumes the converse. Her love for John only causes her resentment for Elizabeth to strengthen. She hates John Proctor's wife and in her conniving ways she attempts to inspire the same views of Elizabeth in John's mind. Saying things to him such as, "She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me, She is a cold, sniveling woman." Abigail fabricates stories in attempt to steel John from Elizabeth. She is a manipulative liar that does and says as she pleases in order to get what she wants.