How Does Abigail Williams Present Evil In The Crucible

Evil can show in many forms in the World. In the play “The Cruciable” by Arthur Miller, evil is displayed through Abigail Williams. Abigail starts out the play as a kind and caring character but that all changes. Everything that Abigail gets involved in becomes the devils work and sends the villiage in fear and rage. Abigail Williams shows her evil forces during the play through jealousy, manipulation, and dishonesty. The first person to use dishonesty was Abigail Williams while telling the other girls to lie in order for her name to stay clean. Abigail using dishonesty started all the talk of Witchcraft and created accusations throughout the village. Abigail says to the girls “Listen now, if they be questioning us, tell them we danced…. I told him as much already (Miller, 18) This shows how Abigail is making the girls stay quiet and not speak of what had happened in the woods. Abigail started all the talk of Witchcraft by telling the other girls in the village to lie, so they can stay out of trouble. Abigail was not only dishonest but was a girl filled with jealousy. Jealousy runs high in the mind …show more content…
Once people leave a room and it’s just the girls alone, Abigail will show her true colors and if questioned, force the other girls to say Tituba conjured a spell. If they didn’t she would stab them. “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about their things, and I will come in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shader you…… I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down” (Miller, 20) Abigail manipulates the girls into speaking lies with death threats scaring the girls into saying whatever she wants. Munipulation is a skill Abigail has and used often, She uses this skill to keep her image clean and to keep people from speaking negatively about