Abigail Williams: Small Friend Groups

At the beginning of the story Betty was having strange behavior along with Abigail, the girls were caught in the woods dancing. But now Betty will not move or wake up but she is still alive and they have no idea what is going on with her . The Putnams try to find out what happened to all their kids and why does some people have so many but she can't have them without them dying. In Act 2 Elizabeth Proctor is being accused of witchcraft and taken to jail, because Abigail was stabbed and Elizabeth has a doll with a needle in it that was given to her

Anyways Abigail friend named Tituba seemed to be a real witch because it seemed that people had proof she was . Tituba wanted Mister Parris killed because he would have slaves and white people belonging to him and I think Tituba was one of them. Tituba knew that the devil was going for the innocent flesh first because it was easier for him .Abigail wanted to be a part of Jesus again ,she seemed tired of dancing with the devil or doing his troubled work and she was too tired of everything he or the other witches would do . The whole village wanted to send them to court because the witches or the deficient to be witches didn't/don't anything just sway in the forest and they seem that they realized that Tituba was really a witch because he apparently k how to do witchcraft and I think that Abigail and Betty were learning from Tituba . Tituba didn't really want anything bad to happen , it seemed that he just wanted to do it for seeming entertaining for him and everybody in the village took it the wrong way and wanted them to be hung I believe or just wanted them to be punished

The witch trials allowed for those whose reputation was lowly to elevate to a position of power and authority. Abigail Williams is the character who takes advantage of this. She is consumed with having a good reputation because for her to rise to a position of power she must be someone who has a pure name. When Parris questions about her dismissal from the Proctor household she is enraged and insists that she did nothing wrong. “My Name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name is soiled! Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar!” (Miller 13). Therefore, Abigail accuses Elizabeth of damaging her reputation. Abigail is cautious about her reputation because if rumors are going around that her name is soiled, surely people would not believe

Firstly, a circle of girls makes a poor choice of lying about being haunted by witches, which later

A doctor was called in to check out the girls, but he couldn’t see anything familiar or any symptoms of sickness, and claimed that this girls was bewitched by someone because of their strange behaviour. ‘’On February 29, these girls blamed three woman for afflicted them; Tituba, the Parris' Caribbean slave; Sarah Good, a homeless beggar; and Sarah Osborne, an elderly impoverished woman’’ (A brief history of the Salem witch trails). Elizabeth, Abigail and Ann jr was so young, and it seems that they played a dangerous game witch they couldn’t get out of. Perhaps, the girls wanted to make their friends to join them in case someone caught them, because no one could hurt or punish these young girls then.

Abigail and the other girls did some sporting in the forest, which involved a fire with a pot above it. Consequently, Mr. Parris saw the girls sporting in the forest around a fire pit with them all dispersing as he went to them. Betty and Ruth can wake up, because of some consequences await them. Abigail tell a lie that they were sporting only and that was not witchcraft. In the textbook on page 142 lines 66- 69 Parris states “ And what shall I say to them? That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the forest?” Explain that hysteria will spread throughout the town and

Abigail convinced the girls to keep their mouth close, about what had really happened in the forest. One of the girls, Mary Warren. Tired to get Abigail to tell what really happened. Abby we’ve got to tell witch cherys a hang in err, a hanging like they’ve done in Boston 2 years ago. We must tell Abby you’ll only be whipped for dancing; and other things [pg.919].

Whose fault was it that caused the witchcraft hysteria? Just caused not going. If it never started it would have never ended so many innocent lives. What causes love to do such crazy things? John is 31 years old with a wife and two kids. Abby is only 17 who lost her parents as a kid and is practically an orphan, who seems to be the vulnerable one here. It was not Abby’s fault she had to do all of that. She was lost of all hope in life but then john gave her false hope that she would be happy

Abigail and the group of girls start out in the woods, dancing and singing. The woods are said to be a place for the devil and the girls knew their presence there is imprudent. Once Ruth and Betty become sick, the girls have a choice to confess

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

Abigail Williams is the Devil figure in the crucible for many reasons that are clear to see. She is very smart in the decisions she makes throughout the novel making sure that what she says so won’t come back to make her seem like she is lying. Abigail started off in the novel as an intelligent, dependent, and strong character. If she wanted to have everyone attention she made sure she had it even if it was in the craziest ways. She was able to lie her way through a lot of things but soon it was going to catch up with her. In the crucible by Arthur Miller he uses Abigail as the Devil figure sending the message that lying to get what is wanted will not always turn out as planned.

“The most memorable characters in fiction are not people most of us would choose as our friends” (Allen 1). Readers find it intriguing to learn about a character that lacks predictability: they could do no wrong in one scene, then turn around and become a backstabbing liar in the next. The same characteristics that would not make the best of friends. Irregularity makes a character and the story, for that matter, interesting. Abigail Williams from The Crucible develops into a character that readers love to hate. Her anger, her cunning, her passion, every twist and turn she brings throughout the play brings fascination with it. She would not be an especially remarkable candidate for a best friend, however, but it perusers find it extremely easy to remember her. Abigail exhibits memorability not because of the qualities that prove a good friend, but because of her intransigence, her passion, her accusatory behavior, and her manipulation.

Abigail Williams has an affair with John Proctor. Abby feels that they should be together forever, but John does not feel the same way. Abigail and Tituba lead the girls to dance in the woods, but it escalates when Abigail drinks chicken blood and yells out “To kill Goody Proctor”. Rev. Parris catches the girls dancing and they all scatter, but Parris saw Abigail's face. Abigail then gets confronted by her uncle Rev.Parris back at the house where his daughter Betty is sat unconscious under a “spell”. He says he saw her naked and dancing in the woods and questions if they were conjuring spirits. Abby says she was not naked and they were just dancing and they weren’t conjuring any spirits but Parris doesn’t believe her but just goes with it.

The girls suddenly changed their story after realizing that nobody was going to accept what occurred. Abigail was practically the ringleader of this. She began praying louder, claiming that she wanted the love and light of God and Jesus, but then the adolescent initiated to name off random people whom she had claimed to have seen with Lucifer. The rest of the children began to follow in her footsteps and abruptly the building became full of names of random people who they were practically accusing as witches. That event should have been a dead giveaway to parade how they were lying considering the story had a sudden change and it should have been obvious that they were directly attempting to put the fault on other people to get the heat off of their backs to selfishly get themselves out of the predicament.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an elaborate play that tells the story of the village of Salem and how the community slowly falls apart because of a strategic witch hunt ploy. The fear of witchcraft turns the once peaceful village upside down and accusations destroy the lives and reputations of so many people. Different characters’ actions have different impacts on the community, but one character stands out the most. Abigail Williams from The Crucible is a clear representation of how impactful the power of manipulation and deception is in a vulnerable society to create mass hysteria.