Compare And Contrast Elizabeth Proctor And Abigail Williams

One of the main links between the two women is their love for John Proctor. This would create much animosity between the two women and would lead to much strife between the two. While Abigail Williams saw

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.

However Abigail takes pride in her hysteria. This highlights the fact that the age difference between these 2 women is phenomenal. “He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!” Elizabeth is much more composed than Abigail, even though she is losing her husband she is happy for him, as she believes he is now at peace. Throughout the play John struggles with his feelings that he was not a good man. Hale tried his best to save John from being hanged to death but Elizabeth believes that he is finally going to be cleansed of his sins, as he has finally come out the dark about his affair. She loves him so much that she is willing to let him go. She feels that he is doing the right thing. She takes the name of God to justify herself.

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible presents Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams who serve important roles through their unique characteristics and thinking. John Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, has two defining characteristics that show throughout this play: she not only lives to please everyone around her and behaves passively, but she lacks the assertiveness to confront what lies directly under her nose. However, Abigail, the girl John Proctor commits the crime of adultery with, manipulates those around her. She is keen to act upon an opportunity when one arises and feels a determination to get her way. While Elizabeth and Abigail are similar in their love for John Proctor, Elizabeth differs from Abigail through her tendency to try to please everyone and keep her own emotions bottled up, while Abigail believes the world revolves around her and works to make things go her own way.

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 Williams: The Crucible Alexis Vargas ENGL- 1301-S33- Composition October 20, 2015 Ms. V. Rodriquez   Abstract Abigail Williams, the antagonist of the play and movie becomes well known and developed through The Crucible, which in theses circumstances is blinded of justice and of sin. Abigail takes advantage of the power she is given by the young ladies doing witchcraft in the woods. She becomes a manipulative and a threat to the individuals in Salem that know the truth about her. Abigail is not the only one to blame despiteful John Proctor led Abigail to believing he loves her even though married.

Abigail Williams was a tremendous character in the story “The Crucible” . Abigail Williams impacted the story by having an affair with John Proctor . And was outside dancing naked in the woods . She was all possessed with the devil. Abigail's psychotic actions affected lots of people’s lives in the town.

"God is dead" a word that ended the conspiracy which two characters in the play The Crucible, are involved in this word. They are Abigail Williams and Elizabeth proctor and now I will compare this two characters in their personality traits. In every play there is the good characters and the evil characters, and this for sure represented in Abigail and Elizabeth. Abigail is the one that represents evil and Elizabeth vice versa, she is the one that represents kindness and goodness in the play.

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor are effectively juxtaposed to emphasize the unorder in society during the Salem witch hunt hysteria. Firstly, Abigail is a selfish girl who would do anything to benefit herself, no matter how many people would be affected. This is displayed when Abigail begins blaming various residents of Salem for summoning the devil and practicing witchcraft to get her a step closer to fulfilling her John Proctor fantasies. Abigail's tactics are an example a of what many people do today to get what they want, such as times where a person would falsely accuse another person of an action they did to get out of punishment. Contrarily, Elizabeth is a selfless woman who puts other people’s reputations before her own. For example, when Elizabeth is brought to the church to support her husband’s

Abigail Williams is a 17 year old teenager who is an orphan. She once lived under John and Elizabeth Proctor’s roof until she got kicked out. Why she got kicked out? Well, let’s find out. She then later stayed with Reverend Parris and Betty. In his miserable and silly sorrow play The Crucible (1953), Arthur Miller teaches that jealousy can overcome you through the story of a young girl who cause death for many innocent people.

Abigail is jealous of Elizabeth because of her love for John she is also dishonest because she tells the court she was not dancing with the other girls and that she did not have any relationship with John Proctor. While Elizabeth is forgiving for getting over the fact that her husband was having an affair. Elizabeth is also truthful because she has never lied to anyone besides the time she lied to the court to protect her husband. At the same time, Abigail has told many lies to protect herself. Elizabeth has never told a lie because she is a honest person. Despite that, Abigail has accused many people of witchcraft like Elizabeth, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne. Meanwhile Elizabeth has never accused anyone. On the other hand, Abigail is concerned about the power and desire to control others in community and gain control over the situations in Salem. Elizabeth is concerned about her marriage with John. As you can see, there’s a quantity of differences between these two

In the beginning of the play, Abigail started lying to protect herself from being charged for witchcraft. She also had to lie to cover up her affair with John, but when other people in Salem started to turn on John she would not tell the truth to help save him. When John Proctor is in court, he revels Abigail’s motivations and tells and tells judge Danforth about their affair. Abigail, selfishly knowing that the truth would contribute to her downfall, screams to the court “Mr. Danforth, he [Proctor] is lying!”(202) here, Abigail is lying and causes Proctor to be put in jail. Similarly, Elizabeth’s lie also leads to Proctors downfall.

John states that, “ In her life, Sir, she has never lied. There are them that cannot sing, and them that cannot weep- my wife cannot lie.” Elizabeth simply has to confess to the courtroom that what John said is true and that Abigail is a liar. Of course, she lies. She lies out of protection to her husband because she loves him and would not say anything that could hurt or slander his name.

On the face of the play (“The Crucible”) it seems to be simply about the mass hysteria which led to the 1692 Salem Witchcraft

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