The Role Of Abigail Williams In The Crucible

“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.

The Crucible shows bravery and cowardice throughout the book. Abigail Williams is a cowardly girl who doesn’t want to get in trouble for her foolish acts, who is then is offered a way to blame others for her actions by giving the names of “witches” in the town. John Proctor starts out as a cowardly man who cheated on his wife and didn’t want to give away Abigail’s secret that her accusations were false, but he ends up being a man that will die for his friends and the goodness of his name.

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.

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.

Stealing, cheating, lying, accusations, and executions are just some of the events going on in Salem in the spring of 1692. The population of Salem, Massachusetts is filled with heavily religious citizens that encourage church services and frown upon individuality, free speech, and witch trials. Officials in Salem try to keep constant on eye on those not following the Puritan values to keep their town pure. Abigail Williams is a prominent and interesting character in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, causing everybody to be aware with her constant misconduct. Throughout the duration of the play, many dynamic characters change their opinions, relationships, and actions; however, Abigail Williams is a static character that has a persistent devious,

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 Crucible by Arthur Miller takes place during the Salem witch trials in Salem Massachusetts in 1692, and contains perhaps one of the most deceptive people ever. Abigail Williams like many people today, all she wants is attention this causes the main problem in the story her quest for the most fame and attention in their small city of Salem. If Abigail and her friends admitted to the Judge that what they were doing was a lie, then people would have never been hanged and this story wouldn’t be a thing. In this play, The Crucible, Arthur Miller demonstrates that it was Abigail’s flaws lust, lying, and stubbornness that led her to be the main character most responsible for the witch hunt in Salem.

The play the Crucible, by Miller is aplay about the salem witch trials. One of the characters Abigail Williams is a girl who grew up without parents. Her parents got killed in an indian attach when she was just a young girl. Since abigail is motivated by power,her decision to execute what she thanks are witches create hysteria in the town by the end of the play.

Abigail Williams is the cause to all of the hysteria in Arthur Miller’s book The Crucible. In The Crucible Abigail’s parents are killed by Native Indian’s which leaves her character as a deceitful, untrustworthy, selfish, delusional, and excessively manipulative woman. Due to these character traits Abigail William’s is given cause as to why she was the reason for Salem being left in a state of hysteria. Abigail manipulated her salve Tituba, and a cluster of girls to practice witchcraft in the forest in an attempt to kill her lover’s wife, Elizabeth. When she is gets caught both her slave, Tituba, and Abigail falsely list names of women who committed witchcraft.

In the book, The Crucible, Abigail Williams is an orphan and under the care of her uncle, Reverend Parris. Abigail is portrayed as a liar when she accuses her friends of witchcraft and blames them for crimes they have not committed. One example of Abigail’s foolish actions is when she and John Proctor have an affair behind Elizabeth’s back, John’s wife. Elizabeth finds out and does not want John seeing Abigail. Abigail takes matters into her own hands when she tells the court judge that Elizabeth Proctor is a witch. Abigail does this so Elizabeth will be arrested and eventually killed and Abigail can have John all to herself. Abigail’s actions affect people around her when she accuses them of witchcraft. Abigail is motivated by lust, and she

In the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Miller demonstrated that it was Abigail Williams’s flaws- lust, mendacity, and jealousy that led her to be mostly responsible for most of the tragedy of the witch-hunt in Salem. I believe that if Abigail would not have been overcome with lust and jealousy and had the ability to lie that easily, that most of the tragedy would have not occurred. Abigail was, in my opinion, the leader of the girls and their lies. Had she not been there as the head of the girls, the girls probably would not have continued on with the lies. In the small town of Salem, Massachusetts everything appears to be normal until some of the young girls of the town begin acting strange.

Has there ever come a time when you wanted something so much you would do anything to get it? In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams is willing to do anything to be with John Proctor. She makes a series of accusations that cause mass hysteria to happen in Salem. Abigail is villainous because she is mentally unstable, deceitful, and vengeful.

Do you want to know how to kill the one man you've ever loved? All you have to do is lie your entire town and eventually cause the death of 20 people. That is exactly what Abigail Williams did in the play, The Crucible, written by Aurther Miller. This play is set in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1600's. Abigail and her friends were caught dancing and setting spells in the woods.

What if you live in a town that’s starts to blame, betray, and kill others for their own selfish reasoning? In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, is about a witch trial that happens in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. In the village a group of girls were found in the woods dancing and practicing witchcraft. The next day, two of the girls were found unconscious and not responding to their families in bed. One man tries to find out if they called for the devil, to see if that’s the reason for the girls not waking up. Then, the girls start to claim they did see the devil with some people in the village. Trials were being hold for men or woman that the girls claimed for being with the devil, those who did not confess would be put into jail and hanged. After all the trials, the prisoners were either hanged or confessed to set themselves free, at the end fifteen woman and four men were hanged and one was pressed. The person responsible for creating this mass killing in Salem, Massachusetts was Abigail Williams tries to lies and fears.

Liar, liar, witch on fire. Abigail Williams was a good puritan girl until the cold, and boring, Salem winter days got the best of her. Abigail and the other girls from Salem fooled around lightly with magical games, everything was fine until Reverend Parris found out, and then the real games started. Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible”, he lived through the tough times of McCarthyism, this era has even been related to witch hunting but for communists. The communism era relates the novel Arthur Miller wrote, lots of innocent people were being accused of something they did not do. Just as McCarthy shook up the world with all of his communist accusations , Abigail kept accusing people of witchcraft and stirred up Salem. Abigail commits all of her horrid acts because of her love for John Proctor.