Abigail Williams Desire

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is based in Salem Massachusetts in the 1692 Puritan era.

Firstly, the accused are immediately assumed to be guilty, establishing the prejudiced opinions that are caused by religious standpoints. Near the end of Act I, Abigail Williams accuses the Bajan slave, Tituba, of being a witch. Everybody is instantly against Tituba, believing in her culpability. For example, “quote” (Miller 44). Instead of trying to figure out if Abigail is telling the truth, (whoever) is certain that Tituba is, in fact, guilty and tries to aggressively coerce a confession out of her.

Many individuals were killed throughout the Salem Witch Trials, but the first case involved Abigail Williams, Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba. According to the University of Virginia, “Abigail Williams testified and said that several times last February she had been much afflicted with pains and often pinched by the apparition of Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba.” Due to their inability to explain things at the time, Salem blamed Abigail Williams’ pains, pinches, and fits on witchcraft. As a result, Sarah Osborne was one of the individuals accused of witchcraft.

creators of the Salem Witch Trials (L. Annika). The girls were believed to have been doing black

The Crusible is a realistic fiction book about innocent people loosing their lives because of a group of young girls procting their Identitiy. Most people in Salem try to live the normal life of a great Christan woman or man. In this story, the group of young firls danced in the forest with slave Tituba mainly for fun, but Abigail Williams had a much different motive. John Proctor, who commited adultry with Abigail, returned to the small town. Abigail wanted john’s wife to go away so she could have without sin. She asked tituba to use witchcraft to kill Procto’s wife. This led to a ton of Koas in this small town, and the death of many innocent

Throughout the year we have read about a varied amount of characters who have had many different personalities. There have been heroes like Frederick Douglass who has helped make the United States into a better place. Also we have had many villains like Abigail Williams who is a deceptive and vengeance-seeking person. Lastly we have the victim, Desdemona who is sweet and innocent, but not in the eyes of her lover. All of these people have big roles in each of the readings we have looked at.

“Think about the last sporting event or concert you attended. It’s unlikely that you would have been yelling or singing the way you were if you were the only person doing it!” (Donley). Being in a group, in some way, seems to make some behaviors acceptable that wouldn’t be acceptable otherwise. “The bandwagon effect is a psychological phenomenon whereby people do something primarily because other people are doing it, regardless of their own beliefs” (Bloom). Bandwagoning is also commonly referred to as “mob mentality” or “groupthink.” We can observe many instances of bandwagoning and mob mentality when reading about the false accusations and impulse convictions made in The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller and published in January 1953. This piece is a play inspired by the infamous witch trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts in the late 1600s. How do the effects of bandwagoning relate to the Salem Witch Trials and why do we, as humans, allow behavior of others to influence our own?

Salem Witch Trials Abigail Williams is a cruel and selfish person who always wants what she wants, and for many reasons she is to blame for the Salem Witch Trials. First off to show how cruel she is, when they were dancing and ‘conjuring’ spirits in the woods with tituba she tried to kill Elizabeth Proctor with a curse. The reason she did that is because she fancies John and does not want anyone but her to be able to have him, including his own wife, this is one example of how she thinks about her and herself only no matter what cost. Although John had an affair with Abigail seven months prior he and Elizabeth had worked things out and were happy once again. Another reason for her doing this to try and get John is when she was younger her parents were killed by indians in front of her, so you could say that John

Parasites are disgusting, twisted and demonic like beings that can take over your body and destroy you from the inside out. In a the story The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, there is a character named Abigail Williams and she is the perfect representation of a parasite in the Puritan society. The things she does eats the Puritan society from the inside out. She has committed adultery, she is a filthy liar, and she disobeys her guardians. Because of her filthy ways she has caused some people of Salem, a town in the story, to be hanged to save herself. In this paper, I will provide reasons why I think Abigail Williams is not a pure puritan woman.

Abigail Williams is a very complex character. She may not be as evil as everyone thinks she is. Abigail Williams is a victim in her own society because of outside forces upon her. Abigail can be pardoned because she just wants to be loved, society fails to help her recover from her parents death, and her society has left no room for her to have fun or be creative One reason Abigail is a victim in her society is because she just wants to be loved.

The people in the town of Salem will forever never be the same all because of the actions that one girl played out through the whole town. She turn the small town of Salem, Massachusetts into a terrorizing place which ended with the passing of many innocent people. This story will never be forgotten as it is a deranged and unrealistic part of history.

On the first FRQ3 of the year, I received a score of seven points out of a total of nine points possible. The prompt had to do with the role of cruelty in literature works as a whole and my job was then to “write a well-developed essay analyzing how cruelty functions in the work as a whole and what the cruelty reveals about the perpetrator and/or victim.” In this essay, I decided to use The Crucible and how the character, Abigail Williams, uses cruelty to benefit herself and her selfish ambitions. Though a seven is a decently good score, it was definitely not the best I could do. One of my peers graded my paper a seven with the reason that “it was a little roughly written and somewhat vague but hit all the main points”.

In a puritan society, children do not often get to play around or have fun like a child would in a more modern American society. Often times the young girls live with close relative's to learn how to be a midwife; one of the only acceptable professions for a female to have. Abigail Williams was an example of a young girl doing just that. She lived with her Uncle, a local Reverend named Samuel Parris. Reverend Parris also had a daughter of his own named Betty. Abigail (11) and her younger cousin Betty (9) started to show illness sometime during January, 1692. The young girls started having hallucinations of spirits pinching them and attempting to cause bodily harm. The girls, later joined by Anne Putnam Jr, also screamed out in pain over seemingly

Miller argues that to be greedy means you care about your own needs before anyone else. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller through his character Abigail Williams, who symbolizes greediness, to argue that there are greedy people in the world who will do anything to get what they want turning her into a person that feels heartless. Abigail Williams demonstrates greediness because she is needy, selfish, and determined.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an elaborate play that tells the story of the village of Salem and how the community slowly falls apart because of a strategic witch hunt ploy. The fear of witchcraft turns the once peaceful village upside down and accusations destroy the lives and reputations of so many people. Different characters’ actions have different impacts on the community, but one character stands out the most. Abigail Williams from The Crucible is a clear representation of how impactful the power of manipulation and deception is in a vulnerable society to create mass hysteria.