Abigail Williams is an orphan and unmarried girl and almost nobody in the town of Salem, yet the town's belief she's innocent led to a witch hunt craze. Abigail begins as what's believed to be an innocent and unassuming girl. However, it later comes out she has had an affair with a married man named John Proctor and is infatuated with him. That is just the beginning of the conquest of having Proctor for herself because she attempts to kill his wife Elizabeth while lying and manipulating herself out of all accusations leading to the death of 19 innocent people. Throughout the story, she transforms from being an innocent girl to destroying the town from the inside out to avoid being prosecuted. Abigail's conflict is that she can't be with Proctor because
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She decides that she is going to attempt to have Elizabeth arrested for witchcraft. Knowing that the proctor's maid made a poppet, she acts like she had been stabbed by a needle that was done via witchcraft by Elizabeth and the doll. This is shown by Cheever “Stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draws a needle out (Miller 71).” Abigail shows that she can go to the extent of injuring herself to get Elizabeth out of her way. Furthermore, reinforces her manipulative and selfish personality that is not recognized by the town. Finally, in acts 3 and 4 of The Crucible Abigail's manipulation comes to its climax as she begins to lead the girls into accusing other important members of the town of witchcraft and makes up lies to get others convicted. This is shown by how she lies saying” Why—? She gulps. Why do you come, yellow bird?”. This quote on quote yellow bird is not real and demonstrates how she will use anything to deflect blame away from herself and onto whoever is her greatest threat. Continuing to lie and manipulate her way through court, she leads 10 townspeople to their
She decides that she is going to attempt to have Elizabeth arrested for witchcraft. Knowing that the proctor's maid made a poppet, she acts like she had been stabbed by a needle that was done via witchcraft by Elizabeth and the doll. This is shown by Cheever “Stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draws a needle out (Miller 71).” Abigail shows that she can go to the extent of injuring herself to get Elizabeth out of her way. Furthermore, reinforces her manipulative and selfish personality that is not recognized by the town. Finally, in acts 3 and 4 of The Crucible Abigail's manipulation comes to its climax as she begins to lead the girls into accusing other important members of the town of witchcraft and makes up lies to get others convicted. This is shown by how she lies saying” Why—? She gulps. Why do you come, yellow bird?”. This quote on quote yellow bird is not real and demonstrates how she will use anything to deflect blame away from herself and onto whoever is her greatest threat. Continuing to lie and manipulate her way through court, she leads 10 townspeople to their