How Did Abigail Williams Get Revenge In The Crucible

Conflict within a story does not only affect a single character yet rather affects them all. Abigail Williams, niece to Samuel Parris and cousin of Betty Parris, is most responsible for the conflicts within The Crucible. Abigail Williams consistently caused conflicts between many characters in the story as a revenge towards Elizabeth Procter following the conclusion of an affair with John Procter, Elizabeth’s husband. Initially, this conflict was kept between Abigail and John however soon after Abigail grew bitter towards John Procter’s wife, Elizabeth Procter as well as John himself. This bitterness resulted in a deadly accusation of alleged witchcraft as well as a cruel dispute within the small village of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. People will go to great lengths in order to protect the ones they cherish the most, even if it means destruction.

In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, people are accused of witchcraft and put to death because they don’t admit to it. People believed that witches followed the devil instead of God and only worked for the devil. Many people were killed without hard evidence for witchcraft. Many characters can be accused of causing the many deaths of innocent people but Abigail and Governor Danforth take most of the blame yet people could also blame Reverend Hale as well.

The devastating Salem witch trials occurred between February 1692 and May 1693. By the end of the trials many people were accused, nineteen were executed and several more died in prison. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, captures the hysteria that developed during the Salem witch trials. Crucible character, Abigail Williams, represents the repressed desires that many of the Puritans possess. Abigail’s readiness to abandon Puritan social restrictions sets her apart from the other characters, and eventually leads to her downfall. Abigail Williams uses manipulation and cruelty to create an atmosphere of terror and intimidation in her town. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Abigail Williams leads the hysteria in Salem by taking extreme measures to succeed in attaining John Proctor's love.

Patty Jenkins, an American film director and screenwriter wrote,“Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.” This quote is reminiscent of Abigail Williams, a character in The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller. In Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, four girls were caught doing witchcraft. The girls accused other innocents of witchcraft, so they would not be framed for it. Due to the girl's actions, many of them, accused were hanged to death. Abigail Williams was a villain in The Crucible.

The many books, there are characters that are hated. These people are called the antagonist characters. In the Crucible, the most hated character was Abigail Williams. Abigail Williams was considered the most hated character because she very deceptive, inconsiderate, and selfish. She was considered deceptive because she constantly chases John Proctor to get his affection. The worse part about this situation is that John Proctor is married to a woman named Elizabeth Proctor. She is seen as being inconsiderate because she accuses other people in the village of being a witch to get fame or attention. Abigail does this when she falsely accuses Tituba of being a witch. She is selfish in the story when she says she would tell John Proctor about when

Arthur Miller states "Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets." The quote of this meaning is that people are falsely accused, but they may be innocent. The Crucible by Arthur Miller, is a play based upon events that occurred in Salem circa 1690s. Through Abigail Williams, Miller was trying to state the injustice in Salem because she targeted the innocent people, leading to their death. Many of the conflicts that occurred in the play were caused by Abigail Williams. Abigail's jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor was triggered by Elizabeth's husband John Proctor. Abigail was a hypocrite because she used the name of the Lord for her own interests. She lied in order to save herself by denying her involvement in witchcraft. The character selected is Abigail Williams because of her three main character flaws which are jealousy, hypocrisy, and mendacity.

Les Brown once said “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the small puritan town of Salem Massachusetts is completely dominated by the fear of girls like Abigail Williams accusing people of witchcraft. Abigail Williams is motivated by her obsession for John Proctor, her decision to lie during the trials lead to many innocent deaths such as John Proctor by the end of the play.

In the crucible Abigail williams is one of the main characters and she did a lot to form the story.These are three most dominant traits that Abigail williams had in the book.

“If you know that’s a sin then why won’t you stop doing it?” In the play The Crucible a group of girls were caught dancing in the forest by the minister Reverend Parris who’s daughter Betty and his niece Abigail Williams were involved. The girls knew that they have sinned so they claim that they were bewitched by members in Salem. They claim the members sent spirits out for them, they did this to save themselves from being hung. A court had to be set up to determine if the accused are guilty or innocent. Because of Abigail’s actions in the play she should be the one who is blamed for the outcome of the play.

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller the town of Salem Massachusetts breaks apart due to accusations and lies. The play, set in 1692 is broke apart by Abigail Williams when she tries to cover up lies and makes accusation she knows are not true, therefore the town turns on each other and chaos breaks out. The whole town is convinced witchcraft is a real thing but the entire idea is counterfeit. The community of Salem is destroyed by the manipulation and dishonesty of Abigail Williams.

Everyone has something to be defensive about. All people have different qualities that they do not like about their personality or their body that they are very defensive about. The most despicable character or most admirable character could be a sum of people.

In “The Crucible” the story has taught us about how great and powerful fear can easily take over one another and show how people turn against one another just to protect themselves. One of the characters in the story has shown a great example of this and you can see the great evil that is inside of this person who just lets good innocent people die to protect themselves. Cruel and selfish is what you think or maybe it is the other way around for you. Maybe you think you got to do whatever you got to do to keep going in this puzzle of life. Yes that is true but in this story a girl named Abigail Williams deserves to take all the blame that needs to be taken for all of what has been done in the little town of Salem.

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.

Responsible for nineteen overall deaths by the end of Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, Abigail Williams is accountable for the Salem Witch Trials and surrounding hysteria. She makes false accusations against many others, and constantly manipulates others to benefit her throughout the play. Although the outside influences from her community pressures her into making the accusations she does, the main reasoning behind her actions and reactions is her own personal agenda which is obvious throughout the play. She should be held responsible for her actions and given the appropriate punishment as a result.

“Smart, strong, caring, reliable, resilient, selfless, charismatic, and inspiring.” Those traits are the 8 traits of a hero. These traits are all found in amazing people now just think of someone with the opposite traits. Which character from the crucible has the opposite of these eight traits? Abigail is someone who does have some of these traits. Abigail Williams is a villain in The Crucible.