Nicole Callow English 3 Mr. Bertelsen 8 October 2017 Abigail Lies Why would you lie to make someone else’s life worse to make yours better? How stuck up can a person be.…
Abigail encourages her son to travel and be diligent by appealing to his affection for her and by flattering him using pathos. She opens the letter with “my dear son,” to institute that she doesn’t intend to reprimand him but to guide him. The maternal and sensitive tone of the letter is a way for Abigail to show her son that, although she is being formal, she cares. The sense of pathos comes from phrases like, “. . . Render your parents supremely happy, particularly your ever affectionate mother.”…
Abigail Williams is one of the main characters in the play, one of the dynamic characters that keeps the story moving. Williams is a seventeen year old girl who is completely infatuated with John Proctor, an older male which she committed adultery with. Williams is a compulsive liar as well, the girl trying to save herself from punishment of witchcraft. She does anything to keep the attention away from her, accusing minorities in the town of witchcraft instead. She also shows little to no mercy while she does it either, going as far accusing Rebecca Nurse, one of the town’s most respected elderly people.…
Through the Crucible by Arthur Miller, readers may start to think that Abigail Williams is the most despicable character in the crucible. Abigail in my opinion is the most despicable character in the entire play, although she has witnessed her parents’ murder. She was led to believe that John Proctor loved her. When his wife found out she fired Abigail. Eventually Abigail accuses Mrs. Proctor of witchcraft hoping she can be with John.…
The play The Crucible is written by Arthur Miller. It’s main focus is on the psychotic Abigail Williams and the effects of her false accusations of witchcraft against various members of Salem. The play has several different themes throughout, but three major ones can be singled out. These three themes are mass hysteria, groupthink, and abuse of power. The first theme to be discussed is mass hysteria.…
In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, a major theme that is presented is that of keeping one’s good reputation. Various characters throughout the novel struggle in keeping their perfect image in front of the entire community. Reverend Parris, his niece Abigail Williams, and John Proctor are some of the main characters who take into great consideration how they will be viewed as before making any decisions. This striving for an impeccable reputation causes to make some turning point actions throughout the play.…
Events Abigail helped Occur “You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.” is a quote by Andy Andrews. In the tragic play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller there is a girl named Abigail Williams. Abigail made many events occur by the actions she took.…
One of the reasons why Abigail is most to blame for the witch trials is because how often Abigail makes false accusations throughout the play. Firstly, Abigail accuses Tituba of witchcraft right in the beginning when she told the girls that “Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam‘s dead sisters” (Act 1 Scene I). Abigail knew she would be in trouble if anyone found out what the girls were doing in the forest when the townsmen suggested to call Hale, so Abigail automatically…
(Miller) This shows how not only Abigail had lied to everyone about what really happened, but that she doesn’t want anyone knowing this. Further on into the play, we see Abigail changing her feelings. Her actions in the play go from not have been doing anything in the woods, to having to drink blood because Tituba forced them to. On page 187, Abigail, while pointing at Tituba, screams, “She made me do it!…
Not letting people be people will build up and eventually someone will rebel against the oppression. Abigail, although she is a mischievous and sly girl, is after all a human brought up in a terrible environment, one that you can either be a part of or hate. She is traumatised and starved for affection, but no one in Salem seems to care for her. What she did is inexcusable, however it can be understood. As a teenager or even young adult, she has already suffered enough, and she simply loses her mind when given a bit of authority in Salem.…
In the small town of Salem peace has disappeared. Hell has surfaced due to a series of unholy and unchristian acts. Many people have been accused of witchcraft and speaking or playing with the devil. Peace in Salem is no more only mass panic and hysteria. One person is truly responsible for starting the witchcraft hysteria in Salem.…
In The Crucible Abigail can be known as the bad guy and the killer of many, but it seems like she can also be the victim of this whole situation. The Crucible is a play that was written by Arthur Miller and based upon the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. The Crucible is a story in where Abigail and a bunch of girls are accusing people of being witches, it all starts off when Parris catches Abigail, Tituba, and others dancing in the woods. Betty faints and now everyone is saying that’s it's the work of the devil. Abigail and the rest of the girls were gonna say that there was no witchcraft involved, but at the end, that didn't happen.…
Love can take you to new extremes. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Abigail William attempts to incriminate the wife of the man she loves. Her condemned lies induce the city of Salem, with their restrictive theocracy, in a cry of hysteria when witchery is threatened upon their society. Out of Abigail’s adolescent adoration of a forbidden love and a deliberate defense for her reputation, Abigail perpetrates irremediable sins, losing her morality within her society. Without looking at all the misdeeds Abigail has caused, she is just a teenage girl growing up.…
Abigail starts accusing everyone she doesn’t like of being involved in witchcraft, ultimately accusing Elizabeth Proctor. It is easy for the other girls who were there that night to follow along because of their fear that they would get in trouble if they owned up to what they did. Abigail was willing to let many harmless people die in order to save herself. She was so worried about being disgraced for casting charms with her friends in the forest that she put the blame on others. Having the story written as a novel would have been very helpful at this point because the only glimpse into Abigail’s point of view is the conversation that she had with John Proctor.…
Some personalities have an inbred power to manipulate others The crucible shows how people are easily misled. Even though magic powers are not real, everyone in Salem believes they are real. One reason people were likely to believe witchcraft is the shared religion which taught that evil spirits were everywhere. If people think are invisible spirits everyone, then you can make them believe anything.…