How Is Abigail Presented In The Crucible

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the audience introduced to a chaotic 1692 Salem, Massachusetts. Throughout the play we see a series of unreasonable events including the hanging of 19 people due to false accusations of witchcraft. These witch trials killed many people and jailed hundreds for no reason at all. There is many people to blame for the Salem Witch Trials but, Abigail Williams is most culpable.

Give me a word, John. A soft word” (Miller 22), says Abigail as she ponders her lustful intentions. In the play, The Crucible, Abigail is an antagonist who causes strife that is not fortuitous. She uses her imagination and the situation she is in to make herself appear superior and to achieve a higher status. There are also many factors that contribute to the trouble Abigail causes, such as, the Puritan society, her past, and her wits. These childish behaviors and deceitful actions cause great upheaval throughout the text. Therefore, Abigail is very much to blame for the turmoil in the play, yet she acts as if she is entitled to be pardoned from her actions.

John proctor is hesitant to expose Abigail’s lies because he fears and knows she will accuse him of adultery. Back then, it was a crime to commit such acts. “PROCTOR: You will not judge me more, Elizabeth. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore.”(Miller 58). In this example, Elizabeth tries to question him, and John Proctor feeling ashamed and guilty attacks her back, trying to change the subject. The old psychology trick, to look back on herself, and not think about John’s Proctors positon. When asked what are all the commandments he stutters and forgets all but one, which was the adultery. Which is ironic, since he committed it and having reason

People are very impressionable, especially children. Abigail used destructive power to cause chaos in Salem. In the Crucible she is viewed as strong-willed and independent. She manipulated and used people against each other as a stepping stone to hysteria.

These threats by Abigail establish her control over the girls. Abigail can now commission them to say or do any one of her despicable bidings. She became the leader through intimidation and tyrannical actions. The manipulation of the girls began early in the play, yet it was so perfectly executed to work to her advantage as she fights to combat the ideals of Salem.

Responsible for nineteen overall deaths by the end of Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, Abigail Williams is accountable for the Salem Witch Trials and surrounding hysteria. She makes false accusations against many others, and constantly manipulates others to benefit her throughout the play. Although the outside influences from her community pressures her into making the accusations she does, the main reasoning behind her actions and reactions is her own personal agenda which is obvious throughout the play. She should be held responsible for her actions and given the appropriate punishment as a result.

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 Williams is the person who caused much of the drama in this story. She bears much responsibility for everyone meeting with Tituba in the woods. Once Parris discovers this meeting, Abigail attempts to keep her actions a secret because it would possibly reveal her affair with Proctor. Abigail lies to cover up her affair with proctor, and to stop the charges of witchcraft in order to prevent the terrible punishments that go along with the accusations.

All people commissioned to hang in Salem were innocent… how did they end up there? Through the lies and accusations of Abigail, a teenager whose head was filled with power, revenge, and her reputation. In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible he clearly shows that Abigail is guilty in more ways than one. She is guilty of lies…accusation… and even murder.

Abigail lied to the village as well about Tituba making her drink blood and making her stand naked in the middle of the night. She knew that her uncle would believe her no matter what so she took advantage of that fact.

Those who attack a person drictletly not the argument during a disscuison show their weakness, as they can't disprove or counter it . In hopes of stopping the maddness andsaving his wife, john Proctor goes to court to accuse Abigail of fraud. John can prove Abigail's lies, as she has confessed to him of truth in priavte. Parris, needy to save his daughter Betty and Cousin Abigail attacks john verbaly and questions his Christanity by saying "Such a Christian that will not come to church but once in a month"(Miller 90). Parris tried to sway the courts opinon, by painting John a horrible Christain, to save his family. the usage of Ad Hominem revelas Parris's his true feeling about John and would rather see Elithbeth suffer than his on. Ad hominem

The Crucible Can a bunch of lies kill 19 people? No, usually not but in history this has happened before. In the late 1600’s a series of lies lead to the death of many innocent people. In The Crucible Arthur Miller uses Abigail Williams lies to leave a negative opinion of Abigail. In The Crucible Abigail is manipulative and through her speech, actions and affair we have a negative opinion of Abigail.

Abigail Williams does not physically appear in Act 2 of The Crucible but she still casts a long shadow in the act. Abigail had a huge impact on the Proctors marriage. During court Abigail was sewing Mary’s doll and slipped a needle into her doll for a later reason. When Abigail later met John in the woods Abigail stabbed herself with a different needle to seek revenge on John Proctor's wife Elizabeth. Abigail testified that Elizabeth’s spirit pushed the needle into her.

Abigail is the primary antagonist of Arthur Miller’s 1953 play, The Crucible. She is a seventeen year-old girl who is the niece of Reverend Parris and previously served as a servant for the Proctors' before being discharged by Elizabeth for having an affair with her husband, John. Abigail is portrayed as a vengeful, vindictive girl who, in attempt to protect herself from punishment after Parris catches them dancing in the woods, starts the Salem witch trials and remains in control of accusations. Abigail’s heartless nature stems mainly from childhood trauma, for she was raised as an orphan, who witnessed Indians smash her parents’ head on the pillow next to hers. Communitarianism clearly illustrates the role that Abigail

Also, she makes them accuse unrelated people to confuse and hide the truth. The simple reason of all the town girls around Abigail is acting the same is because it is a kind of social mentality, or

I am choosing how theme such as power functions in the play. I am deciding to write about Abigail because she has the most power in the play in my personal opinion. Abigail had a lot of people behind her back supporting her. She has done a lot to show why she has the most power.