Abigail Williams Motivation

In Arthur Miller 's The Crucible, the main character Abigail Williams is to blame for the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, Abigail Williams remained a static character throughout the book. Abigail is a mean, deceitful and manipulative person who always wants her way; she has no remorse about who she hurts along her journey to get her want she wants.

Mikayla Walker Unit Assessment #3 English 3 2nd Hour 11-17-15 Abigail Williams What actions would you take to keep your life? Would you lie and put other people's lives at risk?

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

On February 27, 1933, the Reichstag was burned down in Germany, this event created fear and hysteria throughout Germany. Adolf Hitler used this as an opportunity to rise to power by using the fear of communism to appeal to the masses. Likewise, in Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, the character Abigail Williams uses Salem’s fear of witchcraft and the mass hysteria to rise to power. Arthur Miller argues that leadership through fear, driven by the desire for power, leads to immorality and hysteria.

The Crusible is a realistic fiction book about innocent people loosing their lives because of a group of young girls procting their Identitiy. Most people in Salem try to live the normal life of a great Christan woman or man. In this story, the group of young firls danced in the forest with slave Tituba mainly for fun, but Abigail Williams had a much different motive. John Proctor, who commited adultry with Abigail, returned to the small town. Abigail wanted john’s wife to go away so she could have without sin. She asked tituba to use witchcraft to kill Procto’s wife. This led to a ton of Koas in this small town, and the death of many innocent

Abigail Williams and Hester Prynne were two very different characters in books about the same Puritan religion. The two had many differences and even a few ways they were alike. Their views on society and their reaction on how they reacted to the way they were treated by the Puritans. Hester feared society and thought that it was something to be avoided, while Abigail long to be the center of attention. While Hester attracted further into herself as she was being judged for her adultery, Abigail resorted to lying to protect herself. Their natures could not have been more different, but they did have some things in common. They both wanted more power

Salem Witch Trials Abigail Williams is a cruel and selfish person who always wants what she wants, and for many reasons she is to blame for the Salem Witch Trials. First off to show how cruel she is, when they were dancing and ‘conjuring’ spirits in the woods with tituba she tried to kill Elizabeth Proctor with a curse. The reason she did that is because she fancies John and does not want anyone but her to be able to have him, including his own wife, this is one example of how she thinks about her and herself only no matter what cost. Although John had an affair with Abigail seven months prior he and Elizabeth had worked things out and were happy once again. Another reason for her doing this to try and get John is when she was younger her parents were killed by indians in front of her, so you could say that John

Abigail Williams deserves hatred and contempt person. The most despicable character in the play is Abigail Williams. Abigail is the most despicable person you could ever meat, she’s’ cold hearted, manipulative, and she also an adulterer. In this play you will see how Abigail personality changes throughout the play.

Abigail Jay stood in front of the school on the rain drenched steps, rocking on her heels. She was waiting for Jimmy, her uncle to close the shop for ten minutes to come and get. Most of the other students had already left from the campus once the last bell rang, they booked it. Abigail was use to waiting for Jimmy, it wasn’t uncommon for him to be late and if anything she’d be worried if he was on time. Abigail tangled with the pull strings of her hoodie, an excited smile on her face.

as we find out that she has no parents. Also, because we are told she

On the first FRQ3 of the year, I received a score of seven points out of a total of nine points possible. The prompt had to do with the role of cruelty in literature works as a whole and my job was then to “write a well-developed essay analyzing how cruelty functions in the work as a whole and what the cruelty reveals about the perpetrator and/or victim.” In this essay, I decided to use The Crucible and how the character, Abigail Williams, uses cruelty to benefit herself and her selfish ambitions. Though a seven is a decently good score, it was definitely not the best I could do. One of my peers graded my paper a seven with the reason that “it was a little roughly written and somewhat vague but hit all the main points”.

In a puritan society, children do not often get to play around or have fun like a child would in a more modern American society. Often times the young girls live with close relative's to learn how to be a midwife; one of the only acceptable professions for a female to have. Abigail Williams was an example of a young girl doing just that. She lived with her Uncle, a local Reverend named Samuel Parris. Reverend Parris also had a daughter of his own named Betty. Abigail (11) and her younger cousin Betty (9) started to show illness sometime during January, 1692. The young girls started having hallucinations of spirits pinching them and attempting to cause bodily harm. The girls, later joined by Anne Putnam Jr, also screamed out in pain over seemingly

Michael Ende once said, “When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies.” This quote fits a certain character in the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. Abigail Williams is the perfect name to fit the quote. Since Abigail Williams is motivated by her need to control, her decision to lie every chance to tell the truth creates her to appear as a manipulative and deceitful girl by the end of the play.

Miller argues that to be greedy means you care about your own needs before anyone else. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller through his character Abigail Williams, who symbolizes greediness, to argue that there are greedy people in the world who will do anything to get what they want turning her into a person that feels heartless. Abigail Williams demonstrates greediness because she is needy, selfish, and determined.

Due to her fear of punishment, selfishness, and envy, hundreds of innocent villagers were accused, several were killed, and an entire society was left traumatized and afraid in the late Seventeenth Century New England. Her actions resulted in absolute tumult and chaos. You may be wondering, “Who?”, or, “How could one person possibly have such a huge affect on an entire community?” The infamous Abigail Williams, who lied and took advantage of the fearful, suspicious society in which she lived purely for her own benefit.