The Impactful Qualities of Abigail Williams
In the spring of 1692, a young group of girls in the town of Salem Massachusetts acclaimed to be possessed by the devil. Soon after, the same group of girls then went on to make claims against other individuals in Salem about them also taking part in witchcraft. The accusations soon spiraled out of control and multiple deaths became the outcome. In Arthur Miller 's interpretation of the Salem Witchcraft Trials, The Crucible, he displays how most of the accusations that were implicated were false, and held no factual evidence behind them. Miller mainly demonstrates this through the character Abigail Williams, and the prominent role she presents. Abigail 's significance of actions is …show more content…
At the time that the accusations started to develop not much was known about Abigail. Other than the fact that she was living with her uncle Reverend Parris, however unsure of why, so assumptions were made that her parents had passed. It was also noted that Abigail was a former servant to the Proctor family, however rumors circled about that her and Elizabeth 's husband John were taking part in acts of adultery. So as a result Abigail then was released from their home. Abigail then developed a form of rage towards John Proctor 's wife. Abigail 's anger is noted when she speaks to John, “She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is cold, and sniveling woman!” (Miller 23). After this point in the in the book, Abigail 's character begins to develop into her prominent …show more content…
Crucible, Abigail is displayed as more of a conflict starter than the victim.This is noted when she speaks to the other girls involved and states that if they tell anyone that she was faking the whole thing, she would kill them in their sleep. However, in real life Abigail was the victim, she was not pretending to show signs of afflictions in the beginning like it is stated in the Crucible, she actually showed signs of bewitchment because she was incapable of controlling herself. Modern historians believe that these afflictions were caused not by bewitchment, but instead were strange symptoms caused by the ingestion of a poisoned rye crop. However in the time frame of this historical occurrence, they had never seen anything like this before, so they assumed it must have been bewitchment. They came to this conclusion because of the religious involvement within the town. Once it became displayed to the community that bewitchment was the cause, everyone started point fingers as to whom the afflictor was. After accusations had circled about for sometime, the came to the that Tituba and sarah Good were the inflictors. Abigail agreed with this claim that they made against Tituba and Sarah Good, because she was afraid of being punished for the strange acts she
In the spring of 1692, a young group of girls in the town of Salem Massachusetts acclaimed to be possessed by the devil. Soon after, the same group of girls then went on to make claims against other individuals in Salem about them also taking part in witchcraft. The accusations soon spiraled out of control and multiple deaths became the outcome. In Arthur Miller 's interpretation of the Salem Witchcraft Trials, The Crucible, he displays how most of the accusations that were implicated were false, and held no factual evidence behind them. Miller mainly demonstrates this through the character Abigail Williams, and the prominent role she presents. Abigail 's significance of actions is …show more content…
At the time that the accusations started to develop not much was known about Abigail. Other than the fact that she was living with her uncle Reverend Parris, however unsure of why, so assumptions were made that her parents had passed. It was also noted that Abigail was a former servant to the Proctor family, however rumors circled about that her and Elizabeth 's husband John were taking part in acts of adultery. So as a result Abigail then was released from their home. Abigail then developed a form of rage towards John Proctor 's wife. Abigail 's anger is noted when she speaks to John, “She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is cold, and sniveling woman!” (Miller 23). After this point in the in the book, Abigail 's character begins to develop into her prominent …show more content…
Crucible, Abigail is displayed as more of a conflict starter than the victim.This is noted when she speaks to the other girls involved and states that if they tell anyone that she was faking the whole thing, she would kill them in their sleep. However, in real life Abigail was the victim, she was not pretending to show signs of afflictions in the beginning like it is stated in the Crucible, she actually showed signs of bewitchment because she was incapable of controlling herself. Modern historians believe that these afflictions were caused not by bewitchment, but instead were strange symptoms caused by the ingestion of a poisoned rye crop. However in the time frame of this historical occurrence, they had never seen anything like this before, so they assumed it must have been bewitchment. They came to this conclusion because of the religious involvement within the town. Once it became displayed to the community that bewitchment was the cause, everyone started point fingers as to whom the afflictor was. After accusations had circled about for sometime, the came to the that Tituba and sarah Good were the inflictors. Abigail agreed with this claim that they made against Tituba and Sarah Good, because she was afraid of being punished for the strange acts she