Crucible Abigail Williams Essay

The Crucible was a playwright made by Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller was inspired by the McCarthy Hearings, which led him to make the story on the Crucible. The Crucible was based on the real events which were the Salem Witch Trials which happened in the late 1600’s. The characters and events of the Crucible were based on the real events and characters that lived through the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials was one of the darkest and most injustice times in history and will be remembered

The Crucible Characters in the Real World In the late 1600s, the Salem Witch Trials were results of the loss of Puritan power in the early colonies which reflected New England’s strict religion. In the 1950s, Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, which was not historically accurate, in order to draw the audience into the Salem Witch Trials. The Crucible contains characters that had once lived in early New England, but some traits Miller gives those characters are not historically accurate. Miller’s

Abigail Williams accused over 20 innocent Salem citizens of witchcraft. 19 of them ended up getting hanged. This tragedy was not even acknowledged formally until a couple years later. Arthur Miller wrote these events in story form in a tragedy play called The Crucible. In The Crucible, people get accused of witchcraft, and the accusers want to see justice done in Salem. The people in Salem are under the influence of their selfish nature, leading to the hysteria in Salem. The characters in The Crucible

once” (Kathy Benjamin). This fact emphasizes Abigail William’s traits. Abigail Williams plays a major role in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, she is one of the major reasons all of these trials take place. She is the niece of Reverend Parris, she is 17, an orphan, and she is very beautiful. She had a job as a servant of the Proctor’s, however, she soon got fired. A very important trait of Abigail is that she is a very good pretender. Abigail Williams is a selfish and controlling person; she teaches

Abigail Williams is a little girl who is corrupted by the power and authority she is given due to the lack of knowledge of the people in her time period. The play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, shows how Abigail transforms from a normal person into a monster. Abigail may be a little girl, but she is far more powerful, corrupt and evil than she seems, because she receives high authority and is able to do whatever she wants. Abigail Williams is an innocent little girl and the niece of Reverend Parris

Although Abigail Williams does not physically appear in Act II of The Crucible, her presence casts a long shadow over the act. Abigail’s presence is immensely felt between the Proctor’s. Abigail loves John and she wants to eliminate Elizabeth Proctor from the picture; “It is her dearest hope… She’d dare not to call out such a farmer’s wife but there be monstrous profit in it. She thinks to take my place, John” (Miller 1274). Abigail knows that John will never be with her as long as Elizabeth is there

desire for revenge. This is a perfect way to describe Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible.” Miller uses indirect characterization to let his audience know what kind of person Abigail is through other characters and her own actions. Abigail is also a compulsive liar and manipulative to the other characters as well. Abigail tries to manipulate John Proctor into leaving his wife for her. Proctor committed adultery with Williams which he immediately regrets and realizes that he

The Crucible: Abigail Williams 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

The Crucible. Well the person I think it is Abigail Williams.     The reason I think it is  Abigail Williams is because she is the reason for the girls meeting with Tituba in the woods. One of the reasons they are meeting in the woods is because they are wanting to kill Elizabeth Proctor by performing voodoo over the fire.  The reason Abigail Williams is wanting to kill Elizabeth is because she was having an affair on John Proctor.  John Proctor is Elizabeth Proctor’s husband.       Abigail Williams

Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953. Arthur Miller wrote it because of personal events and what was going on at the time. The play was based in 1693 Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials. In 1953 communists were treated very similar to how the witches were in 1693. In Arthur’s life he had been accused of communism and was fined and sentenced to 30 days in jail. Although the play can be connected to more than just those specific times. It can be related to the strangest most awful