2nd Hour Argumentative The Crucible Angel Claw Abigail WIlliams a young adult who has been used,pushed,and pressured by everyone around her. She never meant to be what she is ,unfortunately it overwhelm her along with the idea that nobody wanted her. “I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!”In the Crucible Abigail Williams is portrayed as a villain for the way she accused …show more content…
Listen ,now; if they be questioning us,tell them we danced-i told him that much already.”(296)Giving them instructions on how they should play it out and keep things from getting out of hand.However the girls start to panic saying what are going to do ,thinking about being hanged. Then Mary Warren says “ we must tell the truth,Abby! You’ll only be whipped for dancin’,and the other things.” (299-301)She puts pressure on Abigail and pinned it all on her especially after thinking about the Boston incident. With everybody's panicking and what was going on .She snapped out of frustration said in response to Mary Warren suggestion. “oh we’ll be whipped .“(320) this line shows that Abigail switch her point of view maybe due to the pressure and how things are getting out of hand. Not to mention the fact that the punishment might be worse than being …show more content…
or did I dream that ? Its she put me out, you cannot pretend it were you.saw your face when she put me out, and you loved me then and you do now.”(423-428).It shows that John proctor may have been making the moves in the Affair and may have used her for his pleasure. It lead Abby to think that he loved her more than his wife and wanted to be with her. Later in the story Goody proctor admits that she kept a cold home and that she didn't blame John for the crime .Considering that he might have gotten too lonely and took advantage of Abigail while she work for
First, In the book The Crucible Abigail Williams is the vengeful, manipulative, and a liar. She seems to be uniquely gifted at spreading death and destruction wherever she goes. She has a sense of how to manipulate others and gain control over them. All these things add up to make her one good antagonist with a dark side. In Act I, her skills at manipulation are on full display. When she's on the brink of getting busted for witchcraft, she skillfully manages to pin the whole thing on Tituba and several of Salems other second class citizens. Also since Abigail's affair with John Proctor, she's been out to get Elizabeth, his wife. She convinced Tituba to put a curse on Elizabeth, hoping to get rid of her and take
How can a girl who condemned seventy two to a death sentence and drank a charm to kill a man’s wife, a man she has slept with on more than one occasion be the victim? It’s possible when the town she lives in is worse than her. Although Abigail Williams is typically thought of as the antagonist of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, she is in fact a victim as much as any other tragic character in the play.
In The Crucible, Arthur Miller shows that the tragedy of the Salem Witch Trials stems from human failings, particularly the need for vengeance, greed, and fear. Abigail Williams is an example of all three. Her fear prompts her to first accuse random women, her need for vengeance directs her toward Elizabeth, and her greed for power affects the lives of everyone around her. Individual flaws, when acted on collectively, inevitably cause the downfall of Salem.
In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, the main character Abigail Williams is to blame for the 1692 witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Abigail is a mean and vindictive person who always wants her way, no matter who she hurts. Through out the play her accusations and lies cause many people pain and suffering, but she seemed to never care for any of them except John Proctor, whom she had an affair with seven months prior to the beginning of the play. John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth used to employ Abigail, until Elizabeth found out the affair and threw Abigail out. Although John told Abigail that the affair was over and he would never touch her again, she tried desperately to rekindle their romance. "Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I'll ever reach for you again." (Page 23) She claimed that she loved John and that he loved her. Before the play began, Abigail tried to kill Elizabeth with a curse. She thought that if Elizabeth were dead John would marry her. Further into the play, Abigail accused Elizabeth of witchcraft. She saw Marry Warren, the Proctor's servant, making a poppet. Mary put a needle into the doll, and Abigail used that for her accusation. She stabbed herself with a needle and claimed that Elizabeth's soul had done it. Although Abigail claimed she loved John, she may have just loved the care and attention he gave her. John cared for her like no one else had. In a way he could be described as somewhat of a father figure to her. When Abigail was just a child, she witnessed her parents' brutal murders. "I saw Indians smash my dear parent's heads on the pillow next to mine..." (page 20) After her traumatic experience, she was raised by her uncle, Reverend Parris, who is somewhat of a villain. In the play it was written, "He (Parris) was a widower with no interest in children, or talent with them." (Page 3) Parris regarded children as young adults who should be "thankful for being permitted to walk straight, eyes slightly lowered, arms at the sides, and mouths shut until bidden to speak." (Page 4) Therefore, it is obvious to see that Abigail grew up without any love or nurturing.
Comparison of Elizabeth Proctor with Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor, the leading female characters in 'The Crucible'. Both show determination in order to get what they want. Abigail, a cunning girl that is out for revenge, feels she has superiority over many of the other characters even though she is only a young girl. Elizabeth's character portrays a wife in distress after she finds out about her husband's affair, yet she still has courage throughout the play. She shows determination when she is in need of strength to keep her going, after Abigail accused her of witchcraft.
Abigail Williams is manipulative and wants everything to go her way. She is the main character and causes trouble everywhere she goes. The Salem Witch Trials is about hearings and prosecutions of people who were accused of witchcraft. In The Crucible Abigail is a no good villain. Abigail first commits adultery with Elizabeth’s husband.
Abigail is wicked and confident and is not afraid to take control of situations. This is shown when she is with Parris, Abigail is respectful on the surface but she hides her resentment and disrespect. She talks back to defend her name and in Act One, she suggests to Parris," Uncle, the rumour of witchcraft is all about; I think you'd best go down and deny it yourself." She is also aggressive and forceful, the other girls are afraid of her. When Mary Warren suggested that they should confess to dancing in the woods. Abigail threatens them,."..I have seen some reddish work done at night and i can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!"
The Crucible consists of many characters and most of them have a very descriptive personality. There are many villains in the play that only bring suffering to others. The biggest villain is Abigail Williams. She is Reverend Parris’s seventeen year old niece. Of the major characters she is clearly the main villain of the play. All throughout the book, Abigail is seen telling lies and manipulating her friends to get her own way. Her lies and manipulations get to a point where she gets nineteen people sent to their deaths. Her motivations never seem more complex than simply loving Proctor and getting rid of Elizabeth. The book is basically driven on Abigail trying to hide their relationship. The book begins in Rev. Parris’s home where his daughter
The year is 1692 in Salem, a small town in Massachusetts, and the Puritans community is in serious trouble. In the story “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, the Puritans community is in the Salem court where John Proctor admits to committing adultery to Abigail Williams who at the time was very young. Abigail Williams is where the court started after she is involved in the case where John Proctor is accused of committing adultery with her. Abigail also lead the girls and their witchcraft accusations in court. Abigail truly believed that John Proctor still had love for her.
Her and several other girls accused so many other people for fun or revenge. They would help the court decide if the people accused were guilty or not. Because of Abigail, the witchcraft situation got way out of hand, and many of the townsmen wives were getting accused, arrested, and hung. “It is not a child. Now here me, sir. In the sight of the congregation she were twice this year put out of this meetin’ house for laughter during prayer” (Miller 1201). John is trying to prove to the court that Abigail is the evil one here, and that she has been lying the whole time. He will say anything, without lying, even if it goes against his name to prove that Abby is an evil, lying girl. When the court begins to believe Proctor, she acts like Mary’s spirit is coming to get her. “I-I know not. A wind, a cold wind, has come” (Miller 1205) This is when she starts framing Mary, and trying to get the court back on her side. Finally Mary breaks, comes back to Abigail, and accuses Proctor of witchcraft, and forcing her to do and say things. At the end of the play, Abigail gets her revenge, but not in the way she wanted. She wanted Elizabeth gone, so that she could have Proctor to herself. What happened is that she did get rid of Elizabeth, but she was the reason why Proctor got hung. Abigail knew that people were after her now because of her lies, so she got on a ship and ran. Abigail’s evilness got her in such a mess,
I disagree with Winona Ryder, but only to an extent. Abigail is villain of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. She is a liar and a selfish person who is ready to dispose of anyone who gets in the way of she wants. For example, in act one on page 1137, she tells her friends that she'll kill them if they say anything about what really happened in the woods. While the example very clearly shows Abigail as a vicious person, I do not believe that Abigail is alone in making herself the villain. Abby's parents were brutally murdered when she was a child and now she lives with a man that is distant and not very affectionate. Therefor, more than likely she has developed an all consuming need for attention and affirmation. So, when John Proctor seduces her
The play contained many scenarios of good versus evil, and the characters that generally possessed these feelings and intentions. But it must be understood that there were the intentions, the incentives, and then the actions taken out on a person or a group of people. Every character could either be placed in the intentions under good or bad intentions. After that, almost every character has mixed feelings of evil or good actions. The fight between the center of evil and the center of good is the foremost important of the points. Abigail Williams is the nucleus of all evil in the story. She is the one who triggers off this sense of hate in the play. She tempts Proctor into lechery, and commits unlawful acts which all are against the Puritan religion. To escape punishment for dancing, she deflects the actions and blames them on someone else, and does not care how many lives she ruins. Later when she grows into power and influence, she seems to enjoy sending these innocent people to their deaths. She takes pleasure in her lies, and thrives on the attention and power that they bring her. All these are the aspects of being the evil character, power, attention, and acts of wrongful doing. Therefore she can...
Abigail Williams obviously has an insurmountable amount of power in this story. She already had power over her friends by being the niece of the Reverend Parris. Once she made her first accusation toward Tituba, all the other girls followed along and started accusing many women of witchcraft. She controlled all the decisions of the group of girls, and basically the whole community. She was able to successfully manipulate anyone’s life that she chose. If
Abigail Williams was one of the main characters of the play and movie, the Crucible. Abigail is one of the main reasons the Salem Witch Trials were a huge thing in 1692. She was the first one to all of a sudden start acting strange, because she had supposable saw the devil, and witnessed others with the devil. All of Salem were strictly ordered to worship god, and to know all commendments of the bible. So worshipping or even being seen with the devil was considered a crime in Salem. All were to be hanged if they broke the rules, and not confessing to their wrong doings. Abigail was a cold hearted teenage girl and would lie through her teeth to save her own self. She stated that she saw a lot of people with the devil which never were. Abigail also had an afair with a married man named John Proctor. John Proctor was hanged at the end along with his wife because of Abigail Williams.
The Crucible by Author Miller, is a highly fictionalized historic play based on the Salem witch trials that occurred from 1692-1693. During these wicked trials, people would accuse, or be accused, others of being a witch or taking any part in dealing with the devil. Almost all of the accusers were women, as well as most of the accused were also women. Although a good amount of the play is embellished, the characters and their fate are similar to the actual historical events of the trials. One of the main things that was fictionalized was the affair between Abigail Williams and John Proctor. Because of her ruined relationship with Proctor who dismissed the idea of ever seeing her again, Abigail accuses Elizabeth (Proctor’s wife)