The Role Of Abigail Williams In The Crucible

The Crucible is a famous playwright written in 1953 by author Arthur Miller. The playwright begins with the plot of a man, John Proctor, cheating on his alluring wife, Elizabeth Proctor, with their 16 year old housekeeper, Abigail Williams. Abigail Williams is an egotistical colleen who will do anything to get what she wants. John Proctor discerned that his affair with the colleen was wrong and removed himself of the situation. He stopped all connections with Abigail and himself, but Abigail was certain to get him for herself. She did cruel things that involved the death of 19 people. Abigail and her friends went out into the woods to cast a spell of witchcraft and were caught by Abigail’s uncle. Abigail denied participating in susceptible …show more content…
She is the one who proceeded with all the lying after being denied my John Proctor. Abigail blamed people of one of the biggest sins anyone in town could do. She contributed in the blaming of innocent people and go them killed. She first of blamed Tituba, Reverend Parris’s slave, of making the girl dance when in reality, they all were there asking for their own needs. The girls took it as an opportunity to get rid of those who they didn’t like. Abigail got all the girls to lie with her and that shows how clever she is on making people agree with her. “Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sister..” (Act I, p. 1244). The girls kept up with Abigail who was their leader in a way. She did all she could so she wouldn’t get caught and in trouble. She wanted to be seen as a …show more content…
She has nothing to defend her wrong doings. Abigail could of continued her teenage life like the rest of the teenage girls in the town. She could of not involved herself with a family and could have avoided becoming a homewrecker. Abigail started the whole blaming of people which sequenced in the other girls blaming innocent people. “I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!” (Act I, p. 1262). The town did nothing to Abigail to form her into the lunatic she is. The town and environment Abigail was raised in was driven by the bible, church, and God. Abigail should 've as well been driven by the good in the town, but she found the ounce of evil in the very corner and spread it out onto the entire townspeople. Abigail is egotistical in the sense of being self-centered and selfish. She didn 't care about the innocent women she blamed; she only cared about taking the blame off of herself while making herself an innocent