How Did Abigail Williams Get A Fair Trial

People are very impressionable, especially children. Abigail used destructive power to cause chaos in Salem. In the Crucible she is viewed as strong-willed and independent. She manipulated and used people against each other as a stepping stone to hysteria.

Above all, Abigail deceived the people of Salem by pretending she is the victim of bewitchment when, in fact, this is far from the truth. She told her first lie in ACT I saying there is no witchcraft, but Reverend Parris saw her and the other girls dancing naked in the woods with Tituba. After Tituba confessed to witchcraft

In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams is to blame for what happened in Salem, Massachusetts in 1962. There are many reason to blame not only her but also her friends for helping her to accuse innocent people. Abigail convinced the other girls to begin lying about what they did in the woods and why they were in the woods. She convinced them to blame others in Salem for what was going on, saying that they ‘‘saw people with the devil’’ and the girls were so fearful that they were forced to go along with her. Abigail tried to saved herself from being punished for witchcraft and adultery by not telling Paris that she drank blood and cast a spell in order to kill Elizabeth Proctor who was John’s wife, the man she had an affair with when she was working in his house. Her love for John Proctor was so strong that the death of many innocent people did not faze her at all. She fed the court lies and

The Salem witch trials took place between February 1692 and May of 1693. It happened because people thought the devil was lose in Salem so they accused many people of witchery. Every person that confessed or accused was hung because the judges thought that they had access to the devil and could put a curse on anyone they wanted to. In The Crucible, Abigail Williams and her friends are accusing people around the town of witchery and having contact with the devil. A total of 14 people was hung, and many more are still to be hung. There are three ways that Abigail Williams could have changed in the Crucible by Arthur Miller.

Her first lie is when her uncle, Reverend Parris, asks her what really happened in the woods the night Betty went into the fit. Abigail claims that “we did dance, uncle… And there’s the whole of it” (Miller 9). This tells us that Abigail told Parris that she and the girls only danced in the woods, but as the reader continues to read forward they will realize that Abigail was lying like a demagogue. Abigail insisted that they only danced, yet Betty says Abigail drank a charm to kill Elizabeth. She evidently lies about practicing witchcraft. Abigail also lies when she accuses Tituba of bewitching her. She says “She sends her spirit on me in church… She comes to me every night to go and drink blood” (Miller 41). The preceding sentence tells the reader that Abigail is lying. She is trying to protect the fact that she is the one who was practicing witchcraft. In order to save herself from being executed she lies by accusing others of her involvement in witchcraft. She hides the truth by telling a lie making her a despicable

In the Puritan society, the belief was that all young girls were pure and innocent, so they couldn’t possibly be lying about the witches. Although this may be true for some girls, it is not true for Abigail. Abigail spends the majority of the first half of the book lying to her Uncle and everyone in town about the reason and the outcome of her visit to the woods. When accused of conjuring spirits, she starts the long path of accusations and tells her uncle that it was “ not [me] sir- Tituba and Ruth,” (Miller 15). This one phrase started the long line of people that were to be killed in the next few days. Again, everyone believes her because she’s perceived to be free from moral wrong. Essentially, Abigail placed the blame on a multitude of scapegoats, starting with Parris’s maid Tituba. Because of her ethnicity, Abigail found it easy to place the blame on Tituba. After being questioned by Parris and the Putnams, Abigail realizes that there are others that could get in the way, so she goes to them and says that if they “breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the [witchcraft], and [she] will come to [them] in the black of some terrible night and [she] will bring pointy reckoning,” (Miller 19). This is showing that Abigail isn’t afraid to threaten people to stay out of trouble. This goes against the belief of innocence mentioned

Abigail went through a lot to show she wasn't in witchcraft she even lied to protect herself. She did anything that was in her capacity even let people die without any proof or evidence just for the fact that someone said or made up rumors they were cruelly punished or just sent to death. Some cons are they all started to end up accepting each other.Abigail went a long way to make life better and happier for her even if it involved hurting the people around her and move anyone out of her way to get what she wanted. Abigail really never cared about others she just cared about herself and what made her

Abigail is an abrupt controlling liar who is seeking revenge on many people in Salem, she doesn’t strain if she hurts anyone in her path to succeed.

This shows that Abigail is a liar, cheater, and just an awful person. She falsely accuses people of witchcraft just so she can get what she wants. She is the leader of the group of the little girls

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, portrays a young girl named Abigail Williams as the supposed cause of the tragic events that took place in Salem, Massachusetts between 1692-1693. The question remains, is Abigail, the girl who first accused others of witchcraft, truly to blame for the execution of 20 innocent people? In a community where tensions were rising and conflict seemingly loomed in the air, calamity was inevitable. A young girl raised to live an oppressive lifestyle may have been the stimulus of the events that took place, but she cannot be held solely accountable for the actions of the court officials and other townspeople partaking in this infamous tragedy known as the Salem Witch Trials.

An important reason proving Abigail is a bad person, is that she had an affair with John Proctor (adultery). She had seduced John to be with her for the night. She knew that he would do what she wanted, this was her big chance. John felt lonely since his wife was not around, he needed someone to be there with him. After the affair with John Proctor, she lied that the adultery had not happened to prevent her charges of witchcraft, because she had realized that what she had done was illegal. After Abigail had her affair, she had stated with anger, “ Oh, I marvel how such a strong man may let such a sickly wife be—, 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, 64).This is a perfect example on how Abigail was trying to take John away and have him all to herself.

Terror and superstition quickly spread throughout the town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 taking hold of all the townspeople’s peace of mind. It all starts with a Puritan girl, Abigail in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible. In fact, because the belief of the Devil is present in Salem, many characters point fingers at others and blame them for their problems. Many accuse people of being witches because they are unable to find a reason for their problems causing the supernatural to become the scapegoat for true evil.

Her jealousy of Elizabeth and self preservation made lieing about people being witches the only way to keep herself safe and get what she wanted. Near the middle of the book Abigail stabs herself with a needle and says that Elizabeth did it, promoting Cheeves to head over to the Proctors to collect evidence. When he gets there he tells John and Hail “The girl, the Williams girl, Abigail Williams, sir… She testify it were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed it in”(II.74). This is proof that Abigail is willing to fabricate lies knowing that it will get someone killed.

Abigail Williams is to blame for the Salem witch trials of 1692 because she lied about having an affair with a married man named John Proctor, a landowner. John Proctor is also at fault because he lied about his adultery. “Let you look at your own improvement before you go to

During the times of the Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts, many people of the small village were falsely accused and killed due to lies that came from the other people living in the village. The people would sometimes do this to get ahead or to get back at another person for something. Many of these accusation of witchcraft lead to the person being either being thrown in jail or a much more dramatic punishment, death. There were many different people who accused people or lied about them to get them condemned, but the person who was the most to blame for all of these is Abigail Williams.