The Crucible Characterization: Abigail Williams
Paragraph 1: Head back to Salem, Massachusetts 1692. Arthur Miller was able to produce intense characters for his play, The Crucible set in this time. Many people that have read The Crucible are drawn to one character in specific, Abigail Williams, the manipulative, malicious liar. Her selfish and attention seeking qualities are almost mind blowing. While reading the story, you develop a hate love relationship with the character that stops you from being able to put the play down. Abigail Williams is the main cause of the Salem Witch Trials. After having an affair with John Proctor, she starts a series of fabrications and accusations to get her lover back. Abigail is the least complex character …show more content…
This shows that she will go to extreme measures just to get what she wants. This quote demonstrates that Abigail is only worried about her own safety and not others.
“You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! John, pity me, pity me!” Abigail is trying to make John Proctor feel bad for her and give up everything to be with her. She is being very selfish and asking him to pity her because she wants him to love her …show more content…
When John Proctor was introduced, he was described as a quick-tempered adulterer. At the end of the play he was a noble man who wanted to fix his relationship with his wife. At the beginning of the play, Reverend Hale was a confident man who wanted to help the people of Salem. At the end he was very guilty for what had went wrong in the town. He knew that the people who were sentenced to death were not guilty and that it was Abigail’s fault. He left Salem not as assertive as he was when he arrived. These characters had dramatic changes from the beginning to the end of the play. On the other hand, Abigail got increasingly worse throughout the story. In the beginning of the play, Abigail was only trying to push the blame onto other people and look out for herself. She starts to realize how much power the witch trials have given her and she uses it for her advantage. She accuses people in the town that she doesn’t like of witchcraft, most importantly Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail becomes so greedy and selfish that she would have Elizabeth killed just because she loves John Proctor. Later in the story, when Abigail figures out that John doesn’t love her anymore, she accuses him of working with the devil. At the end of most stories, the antagonist improves in some way but Abigail just gets
Paragraph 1: Head back to Salem, Massachusetts 1692. Arthur Miller was able to produce intense characters for his play, The Crucible set in this time. Many people that have read The Crucible are drawn to one character in specific, Abigail Williams, the manipulative, malicious liar. Her selfish and attention seeking qualities are almost mind blowing. While reading the story, you develop a hate love relationship with the character that stops you from being able to put the play down. Abigail Williams is the main cause of the Salem Witch Trials. After having an affair with John Proctor, she starts a series of fabrications and accusations to get her lover back. Abigail is the least complex character …show more content…
This shows that she will go to extreme measures just to get what she wants. This quote demonstrates that Abigail is only worried about her own safety and not others.
“You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! John, pity me, pity me!” Abigail is trying to make John Proctor feel bad for her and give up everything to be with her. She is being very selfish and asking him to pity her because she wants him to love her …show more content…
When John Proctor was introduced, he was described as a quick-tempered adulterer. At the end of the play he was a noble man who wanted to fix his relationship with his wife. At the beginning of the play, Reverend Hale was a confident man who wanted to help the people of Salem. At the end he was very guilty for what had went wrong in the town. He knew that the people who were sentenced to death were not guilty and that it was Abigail’s fault. He left Salem not as assertive as he was when he arrived. These characters had dramatic changes from the beginning to the end of the play. On the other hand, Abigail got increasingly worse throughout the story. In the beginning of the play, Abigail was only trying to push the blame onto other people and look out for herself. She starts to realize how much power the witch trials have given her and she uses it for her advantage. She accuses people in the town that she doesn’t like of witchcraft, most importantly Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail becomes so greedy and selfish that she would have Elizabeth killed just because she loves John Proctor. Later in the story, when Abigail figures out that John doesn’t love her anymore, she accuses him of working with the devil. At the end of most stories, the antagonist improves in some way but Abigail just gets