Analysis Of Abigail Williams In The Crucible

To begin, Abigail’s background story must be explained for anybody to truly understand her character. Abigail is an orphan who witnessed her parents’ brutal murder as a young child and was taken in by her uncle Reverend Parris (148). Abigail has grown up without a proper mother and father figure to guide her through the trials of life. When Abigail is first introduced into the scene, the narrator uses an intriguing choice of words to describe her. Some literary analysts may argue that Abigail’s childhood living situation is the reason that she behaves the way she does; however this is not the case. Abigail has a tendency to victimize herself to gain and receive attention whenever she pleases. Throughout acts I and II, Abigail has made herself the victim in a multitude of different ways. For example, Reverend Parris accuses Abigail of having a blemished reputation around the town of Salem. She denies this statement; however, when Parris calls her bluff, she blames the

Being related to a priest doesn't mean you are a good person. Abigail Williams was the niece of Reverend Parris, but she was no Puritan. Arthur Miller understood and used this truth while writing his play, The Crucible. Abigail did some things that were not only unspeakable by Puritan standards, but also illegal at the time. She had Tituba use voodoo magic in an attempt to kill John Proctors wife, and had an affair with him while she was living there as a servant. To top it all off, she threatened the other girls who saw and knew what actually happened in the forest. These are all very strong reasons for why Abigail is not a true Puritan.

Abigail's characteristics are a factor in her actions and reactions during the play. She is an extremely manipulative, power hungry and controlling person. In

Abigail Williams did not want to stop the witch trials because if they found out she was lying about most of the things she said she would have been hanged. Blaming other people, getting them killed because of her ignorance. She only was loyal to the girls. One wrong move for abigail then her life would have been over with. Abigail was full of herself in the play she was selfish, ignorant, and a back-stabbing liar, it was her way or no way she did not let nothing stop her from getting rid of who was in the way.She even told lies on Tituba, but she had the courage and was brave enough to stand up and confess about it only because she was a slave and she thought they were going to kill her. The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the author of the book put everything in play because Abigail Uses the town’s fear and Witchcraft to her own advantages. She stole Reverend Parris money and lied about it and, acts the whole shouting and screaming in court and puts the town in fear. Being so vindictive as she is, she scares herself at times because she’s afraid if anyone would find out about her lien about the witchcraft.

Recent studies suggest that women who live under constrained social customs are more likely to commit crimes, often times violent ones. In ¨The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, many people struggle with their actions because the rules of their strict Puritan Society make it impossible to handle their feelings and sins. One such character Abigail Williams struggled with handling an affair she had with a married man, which ultimately led her to commit horrible atrocities. Arthur Miller wrote this play to highlight the false accusations that occurred, partially against him, during the McCarthy Trials of the 1950s during the age of anticommunism in the United States. In ¨The Crucible¨ many people were convicted of witchcraft and hanged. One main character the played a role in these convictions while trying to get what she wanted even if it meant manipulating the court. Abigail should be responsible for the deaths of the people who were wrongly convicted or hanged in the play because Abigail was manipulative and dangerous, Abigail manipulates Danforth and the courts, and Abigail is violent.

Abigail Williams was the person who was most responsible for the chaotic witchcraft situation in Salem. Abigail has an endless gift of dissembling. Abigail believes that by concealing, lying, and not speaking the truth she wouldn’t be whipped or executed. “Abigail: Please don’t hurt me! Mary Warren: I’m not hurtin’ her! Danforth: Why does she see this vision? Abigail: She see’s nothin’ Mary Warren: Abby you mustn’t! All The Girls: Abby you mustn’t!” (1149). There are no spirits there. They don’t see nothing. Abigail is just making a show for Danforth since they are all in the courtroom. Abigail is looking for someone to blame to make herself look

Lust, mendacity, and jealousy are three things that can change how a person feels and acts. Sometimes we can't help it and it causes lots of problems. These problems then accumulate and cause something we did not intend to happen and this is something that happen in the town of salem. Abigail had these 3 characteristics which made her do things and blame witchcraft on many people causing several deaths.

In the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Miller demonstrated that it was Abigail Williams’s flaws- lust, mendacity, and jealousy that led her to be mostly responsible for most of the tragedy of the witch-hunt in Salem. I believe that if Abigail would not have been overcome with lust and jealousy and had the ability to lie that easily, that most of the tragedy would have not occurred. Abigail was, in my opinion, the leader of the girls and their lies. Had she not been there as the head of the girls, the girls probably would not have continued on with the lies. In the small town of Salem, Massachusetts everything appears to be normal until some of the young girls of the town begin acting strange.

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us – to haunt our thoughts after we’ve faced them – Sarah J. Maas. A quote that says so much relatable to the play “The Crucible”. While some believe that Mary Warren is one of the most heinous characters in the story “The crucible”, I truly disagree; I on the other hand think that Abigail Williams is the most despicable! I say that Abigail Williams is the most detestable because of her attitude and acts during the play. She does many awful things to people which is why she is put in the category that she is put in. Not only did she lead the other girls into dancing in the woods and threaten to hurt them for telling but she also lied to the people of the court and threatened to expose John Proctor for the adultery he committed with her.

During The Crucible Abigail Williams has a dishonest, conniving, and aggressive nature, which causes others in the play to be affected and many people killed. She is very rude and very mean to the others, and she lies about things to make herself look good, and make her look innocent. People in the village know Abigail as a innocent child, but she is really a evil person and she causes people to be harmed. As Abigail goes throughout the play , people begin realizes that she is evil , and that she has been lying.

She comes off as anything but innocent, but it could explain the root to her issues. This glimpse into her life is the only shred of sympathy for Abigail given to the reader, which consequently doesn’t balance out for the bad she does. She is scarred on an emotional and mental level which is an explanation for why she can justify her actions. Also, having this information makes it prevalent why she is so attached to John Proctor, “I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot” (Miller 24)! She sees him as someone who can give her guidance and someone who can give her the attention her parents weren’t able to.

Abigail is a very deceitful character. Abigail was the character in the story that caused the trials by falsely accusing others. At the start of the story Abigail starts accusing the women in town to draw attention to herself. While the attention was on Tituba to turn the attention back on herself, Abigail exclaims, “… I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss his hand; I saw Sarah Good with the devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the devil!” (45). This was the staring point of where all the girls started accusing the innocent women in town. By the end of the story, Abigail is still very deceitful when she lies in the court room about seeing the bird and claiming its Mary Warren. “Oh, Mary, this is a black art to change your shape. No, I cannot, I cannot stop my mouth; its God’s work I do” “Mary, please don’t hurt me!” (107). This quote shows how deceitful she really is because there wasn’t really a

Since Abigail knows people will have pity on her, she uses this to her advantage when she is talking to Parris about Goody Proctor, John Proctor’s wife, where she says, “She hates me uncle, she must, for I would not be her slave” (Miller 1132). When she says this, Abigail implies that everyone is attacking her by redundantly accusing her of practicing witch craft in the woods. In the end, Abigail triumphs everyone when her and Mercy Lewis run off together after they steal a lump sum of money from Parris’ secret saving stash. So whether or not Abigail is truly guilty, it doesn’t matter because she got away.

So throughout this whole play Abigail shows many examples about being guilty. In this play there are many ways that are shown that Abigail has shown some kind of guilt. There for that could change her actions and the way she acts toward people. The first thing that happened in the play that proves that Abigail is guilty is that when everyone was about to be hanged she ran away. She was a coward and did not take responsibility for her actions. Instead of saying the truth and taking responsibility she ran away so she was not going to be blamed for all of those deaths. She stole her uncle’s, Parris, money and got away from town. On page 78 Parris says “My niece… I believe she has vanished.” She did not want to deal with

In the novel “The Crucible”, Although Abigail did do many things that are wrong and truly punishable, I don't think all the blame should be placed on her because there was many factors adding on to the sad ending conclusion. Personally, I think Abigail was so in love torn over not having John Proctor as a lover or even just a friend in her life that she took revenge into her hands and vowed to herself that she would take Elizabeth’s happiness away from her. I think in a way she wanted Elizabeth to suffer just as she did when Elizabeth cut ties with her from seeing John Proctor after the affair. I feel that many people reading the story could in fact justify that it was all Abigail's fault for all the tears, pain, blood, and hurt caused throughout the story but many of her little girlfriends and village people participated in many of the lies that she told. People like Judge Danforth, Tituba, Mary Warren and many more did not help with their opinions and horrible judgments throughout the story. For example Tituba, towards the middle of the story says “ Mister Reverend, I do believe somebody else be witchin’ these children” and “ I don't know, sir, but the devil got him numerous witches”. If she would've never said that to the reverend the girls would of never really made such a big fuss yelling out other people's innocent names to the village. Honestly if she would of never said that i do think Abigail would of had such a good background story in keeping the lie up and i