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Examples Of Abigail In The Crucible

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Abigail’s malicious intent causes her to use the fear of the girls who were allegedly caught in the woods doing witchery with Abigail to manipulate them into thinking about the consequences in order to protect herself. By committing this disrespectful sin, she gained total control and power over the girls and commanded them to do as she ordered or she would hurt them. Abigail proceeds to tell the girls, “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it.” (Miller 20) In this quote, Abigail is threatening and manipulating the other girls into following her lead. Many townspeople …show more content…

Abigail originally commits these sins because she is in love with John Proctor. When she had a one time affair with John, she immediately fell in love. John, however, did not feel the same way and only saw it as lust. When Elizabeth Proctor fired her from her service, Abigail create a vendetta to ruin her life. When Abigail originally gets questioned about why she was fired from Goody Proctor’s service she instinctively gets defensive about how Goody Proctor only tells lies. Abigail tries to make John Proctor doubt his loyal wife by saying, “She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold sniveling woman, and you bend to her! Let her turn you like a-” (Miller 15). This quote perfectly exemplifies the malice of Abigail. In this quote, she spits lies for the ultimate goal to marry ‘the love of her life’. Abby’s envious attitude toward Elizabeth ensures the fact that she will not stop to get what she wants. Abigail also creates a poppet in court and uses Mary Warren as bait to plant in the Proctor’s house, which leads to Elizabeth Proctor getting taken by As evident here, her extreme jealousy makes her turn to petty name calling in order to create hesitation in John’s mind and a slight chance that Abigail might be his true

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