Abigail Williams Manipulation

The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during the year of 1692 and during this time, the Salem witch-hunts began. The Salem witch-hunt was one of the oddest and most fearsome epochs in human history. The numerous amounts of people that were prosecuted were all innocent and their lives were taken away due to the fallacious accusations of the Puritan’s belief in superstition and their paranoia that witches had walked among them. One accuser that is the reason this all started was Abigail Williams. Abigail Williams is to blame because she possesses the evil qualities of being remorselessness, jealous, and also having the quality of vengefulness. These qualities that Abigail have are direct contributions to the murder of many people who were unjustly hanged to death.

Abigail is a highly jealous character, concentrating her jealousy on Elizabeth Proctor. This jealousy is driven by lust and her desire for John Proctor. Abigail served as a servant in the Proctor household and after an affair with her husband John, Elizabeth fired her. She still resents Elizabeth for this as she is still in love with John. She clearly says to John, "You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!" Abigail is still in love with John and she assumes the converse. Her love for John only causes her resentment for Elizabeth to strengthen. She hates John Proctor's wife and in her conniving ways she attempts to inspire the same views of Elizabeth in John's mind. Saying things to him such as, "She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me, She is a cold, sniveling woman." Abigail fabricates stories in attempt to steel John from Elizabeth. She is a manipulative liar that does and says as she pleases in order to get what she wants.

The play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller recounts the events from 1692 to 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts, otherwise known as the Salem Witch Trials. Though set in colonial Massachusetts, the somewhat fictional piece serves as an allegory for the post-WWII Red Scare, or more specifically the McCarthy Hearing in the 1950's. Both incidents of mass hysteria had taken place almost three centuries apart, however, share the tragic theme of innocent individuals being accused and convicted of crimes without evidence. As well as, how the prior can be caused by economic instability and provoked public fear. The same theme of human nature is portrayed as Abigail, a young woman desperately in love with the older John Proctor, uses the growing suspicion of witches in Salem to attempt to get rid of Proctor's wife, Elizabeth. Several other girls of Salem follow Abigail as she begins to test the limits of who she can successfully accuse of bewitching her, this goes on until she feels confident enough to accuse Elizabeth Proctor. In quest of her goal Abigail, as well as her followers, become blinded by their new power in society, to the point of abuse. This abuse includes the witch hysteria that erupted in Salem due to their finger-pointing of 'witches' and overdramatic acting of being bewitched in court. Later John Proctor, Mary Warren, Giles Corey, and Francis Nurse try to disprove the accuracy of Abigail's and the other girls' claims. Unfortunately, Mary Warren ends up turning on Proctor,

Fear can cause people to make bad decisions causing the situation to worsen. According to the play The Crucible is about a group of girls who were caught practicing witchcraft who were forced to tell lies about the devil forcing them to participate in villainous actions and then forced to name those involved in the fear of being hanged by the court. Head of the group was a young woman named Abigail Williams, who was infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid of his wife. In the play The Crucible, Arthur Miller personifies Abigail Williams as a manipulative character as seen when she successfully manages to convince the court that Elizabeth and other innocent citizens work with the devil and how she controlled the group of girls into pretending to have encounters with evil spirits of the accused. Arthur Miller wrote the play as an allegory of the McCarthyism in the 1950s. Focusing on the inconsistencies of the Salem witch trials in seventeenth-century in Salem Massachusetts, and the extreme behavior that can result from dark desires.

The devastating Salem witch trials occurred between February 1692 and May 1693. By the end of the trials many people were accused, nineteen were executed and several more died in prison. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, captures the hysteria that developed during the Salem witch trials. Crucible character, Abigail Williams, represents the repressed desires that many of the Puritans possess. Abigail’s readiness to abandon Puritan social restrictions sets her apart from the other characters, and eventually leads to her downfall. Abigail Williams uses manipulation and cruelty to create an atmosphere of terror and intimidation in her town. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Abigail Williams leads the hysteria in Salem by taking extreme measures to succeed in attaining John Proctor's love.

“Uncle, we did dance; let you tell them I confessed-and I’ll be whipped if I must be. But there speakin’ of witch craft.” Could you imagine being accused of witchcraft just for being out in the woods, dancing around a fire with some friends? From Abigail Williams motives, the choices she make, along with the consequences that are put in to place that has caused this chaos, to the person Abigail has become by the end of the play. The Crucible by Arthur Miller, is an emotional rollercoaster.

The year is 1692, and in Salem Village, Massachusetts hysteria is prevailing over the plausibility of real witches roaming the town. The historical event of the Salem Witch Trials--when many accused of witchcraft were executed--was the direct result of the townspeople's fear and delirium. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, characters, both fictitious and literal people that were part of the historical event, experience change and development within their personalities as well as the types of actions they are willing to take. Throughout the whole text, the author shows and infers to readers how the Salem Witch Trials changed the lives of those involved. Miller uses Biblical allusion and metaphor in his development of the characters Abigail Williams,

The Crucible focuses on the witch trials of Salem and the chaos it creates. The antagonist of the story, Abigail, spearheaded the trials and was the catalyst of the rampant accusations and executions. Having been pushed into a corner and unwilling to accept the punishment that would follow the reveal of her meddling in witchcraft, Abigail was able to turn the situation around giving her the power to turn the accusations of witchcraft against whoever she wished. She is able to rise in status from the most lowly of the townsfolk, being an unwed orphaned girl, to the most powerful person in court. She is extremely skilled in lying and manipulation and is even convincing enough in her performance to not only convince others she is being affected by the witchcraft of others but to convince other girls that they are under witchcraft as well. Abigail emerges as an undoubtedly skilled manipulator and liar with the ability to turn the circumstances in her favor. While she is incredibly talented, she lacks the maturity for the power she has claimed and very quickly uses it for extremely selfish means, such as planting false evidence to get John Proctor’s wife imprisoned so she can take her place. Because of these childish immaturities, Abigail acts less like a character with clearly defined goals and aspirations; instead she operates more like a force of nature, lashing out at anything that

Salem, Massachusetts found itself in deep despair when many people were slaughtered for being guilty of witchcraft. The tale, The Crucible, depicts the intense nature of the Salem witch trials. Due to misjudgment and deranged accusations, people’s lives were constantly at risk. In the story, there were multiple people in the village responsible for the witch trials, but there is one who is accountable, Abigail Williams. She displays sinful actions throughout the play, making her an enemy in the town.

Mass hysterias, pointing fingers at one another, and name dropping is what plagues the Protestant community of Salem, Massachusetts. It all starts with the witch frenzy that inevitably ends to multiple hangings in the strongly religious town. In ‘The Crucible’, Abigail Williams was the main contributor to the widespread hysteria of witch hangings in the town of Salem, and Arthur Miller showcases Williams’ main motive in different parts of the play.

The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller. In this, a girl named Abigail Williams refuses to let her friends admit to any dancing they had done in the woods. This causes them to be accused of witchcraft, which one woman admits to first, causing the rest of the girls to admit to as well. In the play, Abigail Williams' motivations influence her actions, causing her to make certain decisions, which have consequences on other characters but do not make her motivations change.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller, is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials. Revealing extreme behaviors that can result from dark desires and hidden agendas within character throughout the play. The changes in some characters develop a valid theme or message in the play. A liar and deceitful person can affect people around themselves causing an uproar in the end. Throughout the story, Abigail Williams is the villainous character causing the deaths of many innocent individuals, using her manipulation and her young age to benefit her throughout the play.

Imagine the year is 1692. In a small Massachusetts town a culture of highly religious folk live in peace. Salem. It´s late January and the reverendś young niece Abigail and only daughter begin to act strangely. Rumors of witchcraft fly through town and fear runs rampant.In around a year 200 people are unjustifiably accused and 20 sentenced to capital punishment. Who is next? The strange widow down the road? The Coreys? In a time of obscured justice, line were crossed and innocent lives lost. In his breakthrough play, The Crucible, Arthur Miller spins a tale not far from the truth.Letting his readers explore a gruesome tale of blind hatred. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Abigail Williams embodies the wrongdoings of the Salem Witch Trials.

Imagine a town that has the Devil himself running loose, and witches that conjure up spirits and harm or kill anything from animals to children. Well that is what it was like for one teenage girl that lived in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts. Abigail Williams was lured into conjuring up spirits and dancing in the woods by others under the influence of witchcraft (the Devil's magic). She was discovered by her Uncle, Parris, who questions her about what she was doing in the woods. When discovered that she had been lured into witchcraft, he helped Abby turn back to God. Abigail decided then that God was calling her to clean the town of Salem from its witches, and even the Devil himself. In The Crucible, Abigail Williams is the true hero. She allowed her body, her sanity and friends to be attacked while she remained brave, true to her calling to cleanse salem of witches and the demunds.

Although Abigail is 17 she acts as if she is older. She is seen to be persistent with wanting to pursue an amorous relationship with John Proctor. In the story there is a point when Betty wakes up and says “You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor”(175). When Betty says this it is the first time you see what Abigail is doing and why she is doing it. She wanted to kill John’s wife so that she could be with him. While speaking to John in Betty’s room Abigail says “I saw your face when she put me out, and you loved me then and you do now!”(177). When we hear her say this we can see that she is delusional and that she is motivated by her love for John. It is clearly seen that John no longer wants to be with Abigail, but she doesn’t want to believe it. Abigail does not care what she has to do if it means that she will end up with John.