The Crucible: the Evilness and Selfishness of Abigail Williams

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams and Mrs. Putnam are are the sources of the witchcraft mysteries because they are able to use their manipulating witchcraft skills to throw the blame onto their enemies. Abigail Williams hates Elizabeth Proctor, for she had an affair with her husband,John, and still has lustful feelings towards him. Abigail used to work for the Proctor family, but was immediately thrown out because of her relationship with John, of which Elizabeth has no idea existed. Abigail believes Elizabeth hates her and calls her a “bitter woman, a lying, cold, sniveling woman” (12). This of course shows tensions between Elizabeth and Abigail. Abigail even admits she would do ANYTHING to get of Elizabeth, perhaps

Within today’s society, an individual’s morals determines how one is scrutinized, judged, and reprimanded. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Abigail Williams is a character with compelling moral principles. Abigail’s disoriented moral constitution allows the theme, the detrimental effects of mass hysteria, to be constantly reassured throughout the play. Through the egotistical, manipulative, and deceitful rhetoric of Abigail Williams, Arthur Miller is successful in conveying how the spread of misinformation can tear apart a small town.

Perhaps the week that John and Margaret had spent apart had caused her to imagine and believe her life was more perfect than it truly was. It is mentioned that “they had been quarreling when he left” (Jackson 64) and she was taking their time apart to get hold of herself again. It could be, during this time, she had imagined a better life for herself and generated an image in her head of their marriage that was not reality. When John arrived, she started paying closer attention to things he was doing that he would not normally have

As shown in both cases, there is evidence of human cruelty and the disagreements about power which leads to the errors in the town that they can never take back.

inconsistency in her beliefs. Majorly, nearing the end of her life, she begins to regret all her deeds of which

The narrator understands that for a peaceful existence she must try to accept her position. As she succumbs to laying around, she starts to lose her strength and tells the reader, “John says I mustn’t lose my strength [,] has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to say nothing of the ale and wines and rare meat” (244). John is using his doctoring skills, anticipating that this will drive her back to health. She senses his love saying, “He is very careful and loving, and hardly let me stir without special direction. [there is a] prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from [her], and so she feels basely

Although John fell victim to Don Hector’s betrayal, he still felt the need to explain himself. He wanted the happiness he felt when he joined the ranch to last longer. John wanted to mend the patch with Don Hector and meet Alejandra again. However, when he arrived at the ranch,Don Hector and Alejandra already left. Instead, he found Senora Alfonsa, Alejandra’s great-aunt. Senora Alfonsa bailed the boys out of prison “because of Alejandra [and in return] she wont see [him] again”. Although Alejandra helped persuade her aunt to bail the boys out of prison, her decision created false hope for John. John believed that his old life would return to him once he left prison. But he showed up to the ranch to find everyone left him. He could no longer rely on anyone, which twisted the many knives that people left in his body. Everyone around John betrayed and hurt John to the point that he became numb to the

John proves that he puts his companions above everything else with his wife Elizabeth. He proves this by putting his life at risk just to demonstrate that she is not guilty. He also wants to correct his past mistakes and make up for his affair with Abigail to his wife. John once told his wife during a disagreement, “Spare me! You forget nothin’ and forgive nothing. Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven month since she is gone. I have not moved from there without I think

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.

He just wants to go back to a normal and happy life he tells her that “but i will cut my hand off before i ever reach for you again” (act one 23). Abby gets very upset and she starts to insult his wife with “ oh, i marvel how such a strong man let such a sickly wife be-” (act one 23) she is showing that her emotions are getting the best of her she is very angry with johns decisions about on how he wants to live his life. John is really trying to get away from her he said some kinda cruel things but he is just trying to make life a little bit easier on himself : he wants to knock her out of his but he just doesn’t know how to do it. He is trying to gain all his trust back with elizabeth and it is hard he is doing everything in his power like in act two he goes and gets her some flowers to help make her a little bit happy but that backfires on him she is obviously very upset with him and he knows that.he is showing that he is doing everything to not think about abby. Will he go to abby and apologize or will he go to elizabeth and make the better

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.

you, sir, I do not believe it” (Miller70). Even after John’s lechery, she believed that he

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.

He loved her and he wanted to give her nice things when he pays off his mortgage on the farm All John’s actions to make Ann happy“naively proud of Ann” and he thinks that she is most important person in his life, and never thinks about any woman only Ann revolved in his life around her and devoted his life to Ann.John trusted Ann completely.On the other hand, Ann is selfish and she thinks only of herself and has affair with steven without predicting what the sequences would be. Ann was searching for inner satisfaction, so Ann took advantage of her husband trust to satisfy her needs Ann demonstrated that when she looked at Steven “Swiftly she was making the comparison again;his face so different to Jon’s, so handsome and young and clean shaven”.Ann started to look at Steven as a man different than her husband.Steven is the young and attractive man. Steven aroused something on her when he hugged her, something never experienced it with John so that why she changed her appearance, dressed up and fixed her hair to look attractive to him. Ann took her decision to betrayed her husband and did the betrayal on purpose, Ann forgot that she is a married woman and jeopardize her marriage and losing her dignity because of her

It was not long after Klara first sensed the danger that she noticed the villagers acting strangely. Years of ill luck had gotten to them, surely. They were more volatile towards god and even the alderman had acted strangely. Klara could push the feelings back no more when the alderman had the church burned with the priest inside. He had become as paranoid as the rest of them, and that scared Klara and Doris. Klara’s mother, on the other hand, became one of those paranoid