In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller Abigail Williams is responsible for the tragedy in Salem due to her relentless desire to be loved by John Proctor, her direful childhood, and her dissembling character towards others. The tragedy in Salem is majorly affected by Abigail's accusations and lies in order to be loved by John Proctor. Abigail used to work for John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth as a servant. It wasn’t until John had an affair with Abigail, that she was kicked out due to Elizabeth’s jealousy. Abigail was infuriated by such an act, so she exclaimed that she would get rid of Elizabeth in order to keep John all to herself. As a sign of revenge, Abigail proclaimed that she had worked with the devil, so she can accuse anyone in
In Arthur Miller 's The Crucible, the main character Abigail Williams is to blame for the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, Abigail Williams remained a static character throughout the book. Abigail is a mean, deceitful and manipulative person who always wants her way; she has no remorse about who she hurts along her journey to get her want she wants.
In life, there will always be those toxic people who start all the drama and always want to cause it. In, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams is the most the most responsible for the results. She was always into no good and is always lying about something. she had an affair with Jon Proctor, she drank blood to try to kill Elizabeth Proctor, and she faked a witchcraft related incident to get Elizabeth Proctor accused of witchcraft.
In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams is to blame for what happened in Salem, Massachusetts in 1962. There are many reason to blame not only her but also her friends for helping her to accuse innocent people. Abigail convinced the other girls to begin lying about what they did in the woods and why they were in the woods. She convinced them to blame others in Salem for what was going on, saying that they ‘‘saw people with the devil’’ and the girls were so fearful that they were forced to go along with her. Abigail tried to saved herself from being punished for witchcraft and adultery by not telling Paris that she drank blood and cast a spell in order to kill Elizabeth Proctor who was John’s wife, the man she had an affair with when she was working in his house. Her love for John Proctor was so strong that the death of many innocent people did not faze her at all. She fed the court lies and
“The Crucible” Is Abigail Whom to Blame Who is to blame In Arthur Miller’s play, “The Crucible”? Is it about a teen girl Named Abigail Williams and a middle aged man named John Proctor that has an affair and cause chaos in a small town named Salem. In Salem many people’s actions cause a lot of people being arrested for dealing with the devil and witchery. Those accusations put Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Tituba, and many more and an abundant of People is accused of witchery and devil related accusations led to their deaths. Many people blame Abigail for what she has done, I have found that she was not the only one to blame for the causes of those people whom have lost their lives due to people believing in other peoples false accusations, Abigail is simply one of those people that accuse for their own benefits.
Abigail Williams, one of the most significant characters in The Crucible, keeps her power a secret early on in the play. At first, only behind closed doors, is when Abigail’s evil desires are shown. She is perhaps also responsible for creating the main conflicts of the play. In Act I, readers learn how Abigail and John Proctor have an affair behind Elizabeth’s back. This not only creates tension within the marriage between John and Elizabeth Proctor, yet it intensifies the relationship between Abigail and Elizabeth. Abigail’s true intentions reveal when Betty, Reverend Parris’
The crucible is a story about the Salem witchcraft trials and Abigail Williams is one of the main characters. Abigail was one of the main accusers in the Salem witch trials,which led to the arrest and imprisonment of more than one hundred and fifty innocent people suspected of witchcraft. Abigail deserves the blame for the outcome of the play. Abigail has a little thing for the proctor and he knows,because he had an affair on his wife. In the beginning of the story on page 22 it states the proctor saying “Abby, you’ll put it out of mind. It’ll not be coming for you more.” That meant that the proctor knew that he had done wrong, but Abigail doesn’t really care because she keeps going for him.
The death of John Proctor wasn’t caused by just one person. John Proctor was the victim of three. The three were: Mary Warren, Abigail Williams, and the Puritan town of Salem. First, Mary Warren is responsible for John Proctor's death.
The sins of deceit and lust have plagued the human race since the dawn of time. These feelings and wishes can make people do some of the worst things known man. In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, these two sins are applied to many characters one of which is Abigail Williams. The play revolves around the Abigail and her friends attempting to cover up their past transgressions against the Salem community while Abigail attempts to get together with John Proctor. Abigail suffers from the sins of lust and deceit most chronically which she uses to fulfill her agenda throughout the play. Due to Abigail's lust for John and her constant utility of untruths lead the people to fear for their lives leading them to hurt innocent people making Abigail the main transgressor of the Salem condition.
In The Crucible, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and Elizabeth Proctor are arguably the most important characters. The affair between Abigail and John drives the plot of the play. Abigail begins accusing societal outcasts as witches and gradually works her way up the social ladder until she is able to accuse an upstanding citizen like Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch and having people believe the accusation. She accused Elizabeth of being a witch so that Elizabeth would be hanged. Then, Abigail would have John Proctor all to herself. Abigail, while certainly diabolical and ruthless, is rather misrepresented. Abigail has received nothing but tragedy in her life; short, though it is at this point. Her parents are killed in front of her at a very young age and while there is not anyway you can take that in a sympathetic aspect, seeing as she uses it to convince the girls to do her bidding, it is very clear that this image has stuck with her. The Crucible paints John in the position of a tragic hero and then ineluctably places Abigail in the light of an antagonist with no hope of retribution. Once you commend John for his actions, you must implicate Abigail for hers. Simply stated, Abigail should not just be incriminated based on what information we are provided. Abigail, while still very much faulty in her actions, deserves to be examined at a deeper level to provide you with the full understanding of just why this woman’s scorning was her breaking point.
In the Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Miller shows that Abigail Williams’ is responsible for the tragic witch-hunt in Salam, Massachusetts, because of her flaws: lust, jealousy, and spitefulness. Abigail had the perfect reputation within the town of Salam, but there was a rumor she was a little close to John Proctor. Abigail in the beginning of the story is caught dancing in the woods by her uncle, the priest in Salam. Mr. Parris, Abigail’s uncle, is told by the girls with Abigail that they were possessed by the Devil. This begins the witch-hunt in Salam.
Abigail Williams is the cause to all of the hysteria in Arthur Miller’s book The Crucible. In The Crucible Abigail’s parents are killed by Native Indian’s which leaves her character as a deceitful, untrustworthy, selfish, delusional, and excessively manipulative woman. Due to these character traits Abigail William’s is given cause as to why she was the reason for Salem being left in a state of hysteria. Abigail manipulated her salve Tituba, and a cluster of girls to practice witchcraft in the forest in an attempt to kill her lover’s wife, Elizabeth. When she is gets caught both her slave, Tituba, and Abigail falsely list names of women who committed witchcraft.
Abigail was being accused repeatedly of lying and making up all of the accusations which were of false nature. The many people who were hung because of her testimony was what would now hang over her head. When she was brought before Mary Warren her false tears and outcries of pain were all an act, but in her mind she was the only one who was correct in her dealings. Abigail was for unfathomable reasons a port of knowledge through which the judges and lawyers convicted and sent to death those who were accused. The awful girl was but of one mind. She wanted revenge and to be back to her “love”, John Proctor. Abigail tried and tried repeatedly to get her hands on John, she tried to get his wife hanged, and when she couldn’t have him she decided that no one else could. Abigail soon began to accuse John Proctor of the precise thing she was known for, witchcraft. Abigail had been in the woods when the young Mary Warren went mute from the shock of seeing Abigail drink chickens blood and curse Goody Proctor, all of these happenings had to do with Abigail Williams, and now she would have to suffer through her own crucible, to figure out how she was going to get out. And though Abigail did narrowly escape the major shackles of her crimes, the guilt and foreboding of being a treacherous liar found her rumored to be a young prostitute in Boston. Forever to be alone and used. That was Abigail’s crucible and punishment for all the problems and
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.
In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible Abigail Williams, an unmarried orphan in the Massachusetts town of Salem, incessantly grows more jealous, her desire for vengeance only grows stronger, and her selfishness escalates. She repeatedly lies to save herself by denying her involvement in witchcraft. Abigail's Jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor intensifies in attempt to realize her desire for Elizabeth's husband John Proctor. In order to save herself she accuses the innocent, without any sense of ethical violation. Abigail proves to be a selfish antagonist in The Crucible that shows no sense of right and wrong.
Abigail Williams is an evil, lying witch responsible for the deaths of innocent citizens in Salem, Massachusetts. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible the young, beautiful Abigail has an affair with married John Proctor. She will stop at nothing to get what she wants, including practicing witchcraft. Abigail is an obsessive, selfish, manipulative liar, who brings destruction wherever she goes.