Who Is Abigail Williams Influence In The Crucible

In the beginning of the play, Tituba, Reverend Parris’ servant, takes Abigail, Betty, and many other girls into the forest. They dance around a fire and Tituba sings songs, seemingly innocent. The day after, people are saying that Tituba is a witch and was performing a black magic ritual. Then later, she is asked to forgive her sins and “call out” the other supposed witches she has seen practicing witchcraft. I don’t think that Tituba is justified in doing this.

This story shows us in many different ways of how people are scared of other being different. It shows us this when in Act 1 reverend Hale asked Abigail; “Abigail, it may be your cousin is dying. Did you call the Devil last night?” to which Abigail responded “I never called him! Tituba, Tituba…” Here we can easily see how Abigail blamed the witchcraft issue that she was being accused of on Tituba.

Abigail’s fear of prosecution and of losing John Proctor causes her to cry witch. When Reverend Hale asks Abigail if she called “the Devil last night” (42), she realizes her peril, and says “I never called him! Tituba, Tituba . . . “ (42), diverting the accusations from herself onto Tituba. Abigail notices Warren storing a needle in the belly of a poppet after sewing it in court. Abigail sticks a needle into her stomach the next day and cries witchcraft. Later, the blame of witchery falls on Elizabeth Proctor because Mary Warren gave her the stabbed poppet. Abigail designs to see Elizabeth Proctor hanged, and believes that John Proctor will be “singing secret hallelujahs” (152) with her when she does. Abigail cries witch on Elizabeth Proctor so that she does not lose John Proctor. The driving fears of Abigail and Tituba contrast in that Abigail’s are complex and twisted whereas Tituba’s are primal and straightforward.

In David Sundstrand's essay he begins with telling the plot of the play. The main character, Abigail, her friends and a slave are caught in the woods dancing. Two of the girls freakout and passes out and doesn't wake up for some days. The townspeople begin to start rumors of it being witchcraft and in order to stop in rumors that can ruin his reputation Reverend Parris, Abigail's uncle, wants Abigail to confess to if they were doing more than dancing but Abigail keeps saying that they were only dancing. Tituba the slave was then blamed by Abigail for witchcraft and to save her life she lies and says she was doing the Devil's work and calls out people name who were with the Devil. The other girls who were with her begin to call out peoples names

In the play of the crucible by Arthur Miller was about the witch trial in salem, massachute. A teenage girl named Abigail fell in love with a married guy named John Proctor. Abigail is doing everything to win John Proctor heart and be john proctor wife. Everything went wrong and she started to lie by accusing innocent people for being witches. Innocent people are getting hang up because of Abigail and her friends lies. The author's purpose of this play is to inform the audience about what happened during salem witch trials.

Abigail thought she was in love and did terrible things to try to end up with John Proctor. Before the hysteria of witchcraft took control of Salem she slept with a married man (John). He tried to hide the affair and act like it had never happened which sent Abigail off of the rails. Abigail had Mary Warren place a needle in a Poppet and give it to Elizabeth Proctor. Later, Abigail stabbed herself with a needle just like the one in the poppet and Cheever said to John Proctor, ““The girl, the Williams girl, Abigail Williams, sir. She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris's house tonight, and without word nor warning she falls to the floor. Like a struck beast, he says, and screamed a scream that a bull would weep to hear. And he goes to save her, and, stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out. And demanding of her how she come to be so stabbed, she testify it were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed it in.” ( Miller, The Crucible) Abigail would’ve done anything to incriminate Elizabeth, and so she created a plan

During the hardship of trying to save herself, Tituba was wrongly accused by Abigail. Tituba needed to speak out to revoke herself from indictment against her. “‘ She made me do it! She made Betty do it!’” “‘No, I don’t truck with no devil!’” (Applebee et al. 187) Abigail doesn’t want to tell the truth about what happened in the woods so she was disproportionate. Furthermore Tituba was a slave trying to save herself from being wrongly accused but Abigail didn’t like her so she blamed it on

The next character to falsely accuse others of witchcraft is the Barbadian slave Tituba, who accuses others out of fear for her own life. She is a victim of slavery who was forcibly migrated into the colony of Massachusetts. Despite being fully integrated into the daily life of the colonists, she has retained many of her Barbadian customs in which the Salem citizens would view as “sinful”. Because of her alien customs to the people of Salem and her low social status as a black female slave, she is blamed for everything and forced to confess through threats to her life. One example of this is when she gets blamed for “bewitching” a young girl and states: “Tituba, terrified, falls to her knees: No, no, don’t hang Tituba! I tell him I don’t desire

Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as an allegory to the McCarthy Trails of the 1950s to inform Americans about the fear the government evokes and show how people lie to benefit themselves. Abigail Williams is a symbol to Joseph McCarthy in the 1600s. Abigail Williams is a character that accuses Tituba of witchcraft, which later resulted of the other girls accusing people from the village of being one too (Miller 160). Joseph McCarthy makes “a public accusation that more than two hundred “card-carrying” communist had infiltrated the US government

In order for action, motivation must come first. This is a very clear concept of life that everyone experiences in various ways. Certain motivations cause certain actions that in turn can have an outlasting affect. These motivations can be considered positive or negative, depending on the society, This is never so clearly shown than in one work of the famous playwright, Arthur Miller. Character’s actions in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible are caused by motivations of selfish wantings or fear. In The Crucible, there is a wide variety of characters all with wants and desires. These motivations of selfish wants and desires, however, quickly cause fear and panic among the people of

Abigail then accuses Tituba of influencing them to do the devil's work. Abigail is the start of all the trouble. She is known for being the first one to accuse someone of witchcraft. She is constantly lying to the court. She

When Tituba gets accused of being a witch, she ensures her survival by confessing to being a witch and signing the Devil’s book, even none of this is true (46). She also claims that both Sarah Good and Goody Osburn are also witches, even though they are both innocent (47). This shows that a person will do anything to survive, even condemning others to death. Later in the story, Abigail is still willing to do whatever it takes to survive, not matter how ridiculous it sounds. When Marry goes to the court to testify against the girls, including Abigail claims that Mary sent her spirit out to attack them (114). There is nothing there and no one can see this supposed spirit, but the rest of the girls go along with Abigail’s lie to ensure their own survival, since they knew if Mary testified against them the court would find the girls guilty of murder and would most likely hang them (114). Once the girls had turned the tables on Mary, she needed to make sure that she survived. The judges were starting to believe the girls over Mary and would start believing that Mary was a witch. So Mary decided to claim that John Proctor was a devil worshipper

Tituba says the devil has many witches and is using someone else to bewitch Abigail. The girls began to throw names accusing people of being witches. Reverend Hale, the witch doctor tells the marshal to bring irons so they can arrest accused witches. Many innocent people are put to death due to the lies and revengeful nature of

Everyone thought that Tituba was a witch. They thought she was a witch because her and the girls were dancing in the woods at night , and Tituba had conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. When you conjure they say it is a sin and could die if you do that. Abigail tells Parris that Tituba had called the devil the night they were dancing in the words. Hale tells Abigail that she sold herself to Lucifer. Abigail also says that Tituba makes her drink blood, Ann says it’s her baby's blood, but Tituba says it was chicken blood.

Abigail confesses “Now look you. All of you. We danced and Tituba Conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters and that is all.” Tituba says she doesn’t truck with the Devil. Abigail says Tituba goes to her every night for her to drink some blood. Tituba says “He say Mister Parris must be killed! Mister Parris no good man, Mister Parris mean man and no gentleman, and he bid me to rise out of my bed and cut your throat! I tell him no! I don’t hate that man! I don’t want to kill that man! But he say you work for me Tituba and I make you free! I give you pretty dress to wear, and put you high up in the air and you gonna fly back to Barbados! And I say you lie