“Being the despicable person that you are, you show no remorse” (Carmen Proviano). The character of Abigail has no concern for consequences and did not receive any repercussion. Abigail actions lead to the Salem witch trials. In the play, “The Crucible”, written by a miller, Abigail shows negative character attribute because she was narcissistic, a perjurer, and caused mass hysteria.…
Abigail made the girls so scared of her they would lie about the witchcraft just to protect her. “I will bring pointy reckoning that will shudder you, and you know I can do it... I can make you wish you had never seen the sun had never gone down...now you sit up and stop this!” - Abigail pg 19. Abigail had a big effect on these girls, by telling them what she would do to them if they ever told the truth.…
Based on my knowledge of the witchcraft trials through the play The Crucible By Arthur Miller, I believe that Abigail Williams was mostly to blame for what happened in Salem, Massachusetts. Abigail caused many problems in the town of Salem that did not need to happen. The first problem that arises because of Abigail was her affair with John Proctor. The affair itself ended up causing even more problems. John was afraid that if he continued seeing Abigail, the people of Salem would find out and it would ruin his good name.…
In the town of Salem, Massachusetts there has been lots of accusations about witchcraft and thought to be good Puritan people worshiping the devil. It has all started with a group of girls dancing around a fire in the woods and getting found by Rev. Parris. This finding has led to lots of people in the town pointing fingers at one another. As a result of the finger pointing, people have been hung for not pleading guilty to a crime they have not committed. The person that is to blame for the hangings in our town of Salem is Abigail Williams, the niece of Parris.…
Salem Witch Trials : Abigail Williams There were people getting hanged for witchcraft in the town of Salem. There has been over 20 people getting sentenced to death because of witchcraft. There is a group of girls pretending that they are bewitched and they are blaming people they do not like for witchcraft. They have been going through the whole town and picking out people they do not like and the people have no chance to survive unless they confess themselves to witchcraft.…
Abigail tried to get Elizabeth killed by falsely accusing her of witchcraft and by starting whole witchcraft hysteria in…
This caused mayhem in Salem because the girls were randomly accusing people but no one knew that the girls were only doing this so they wouldn’t be executed. Many people might think that the girls were afraid of Abigail because she drank the blood in the forest and seems to be the one who started saying people were practicing witchcraft and that the girls started copying what she was doing. However, yes the were copying Abigail, but only because they knew what was gonna happen if the Puritan authorities found out what actually happened that night in the…
There are many causes to the Salem witch trials and all of them stem from the church and the direct view of the bible. The way that Puritan society functioned repressed human nature and caused normally good people to lash out at others because of their own sin. They also gained both societal status and monetary value from accusing others. The literal view of the bible led to a very skewed version of the court. Along with this the fact that the Puritans were very isolated from the rest of society made for huge amounts of paranoia.…
Abigail accuses innocent people of using Witchcraft. But everyone is scared of her and no one wants to go against her. Everyone is somehow believing everything she is saying. She pretty much ends up running everybody and thing in Salem. She is doing this to everybody she looks down on.…
Argumentative Essay Young girls, cursed by what is referred to as a witch with no reason behind the actions or acuse. In 1692 in the Salem, Massachusetts, several girls were said to be possessed by witchcraft. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, many are unreasonably accused of being a witch because of actions like not showing up for church, acting strange, dancing, amongst other things. Puritans believed in following the Bible and punishment for sin was often harsh.…
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.…
Looking back at the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692, and later on in the McCarthy trials, you can determine that fear was a ruling factor in the behavior of those involved. Arthur Miller was unmistaken when he stated in Why I wrote The Crucible: An Artist’s Answer to Politics by Arthur Miller that “fear doesn’t travel well; …it can warp judgment” (1). The fear that was instilled upon the people of Salem was that if anyone opposed the trials they were not only accused of overthrowing the court, they were also accused of overthrowing God – provoking charges of witchcraft. By using biblical allusions, Parris’ eager pursuit for “justice,” and Abigail’s vindictive actions Miller demonstrates through The Crucible that the application of power can instill so much fear in others that they succumb to submitting to immoral…
The Crucible Essay “Whore! How do you dare call Heaven” (Act 2 Scene II). This quote caused quite a stir in the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Proctor, one of the main characters, is yelling this at another character named Abigail, who, along with Danforth, is to blame for the witch trials. The characters in the play that are most to blame are Abigail and Danforth because Abigail makes false accusations throughout the whole play, she causes all the hysteria that feeds the witch trials, and Danforth fails to act to stop the hysteria.…
This shows that Abigail’s masculinity directly resulted in the witch trials, and all of the deaths that came from them. However, Abigail’s behaviors show an underlying problem of Salem Village. Young girls had many restrictions on what they could do in society and how they could act. More specifically, they were expected to place the wants and needs of others above their own. If these restrictions weren’t there, Abigail may have been able to go after her desires in less lethal ways.…
The townspeople were being easily manipulated by the “witches”. Innocent people were wrongly accused of witchcraft and hanged. Abigail refused to see that her and John’s brief affair would not lead to anything more than an just a past affair. In the end, Abigail’s scheme backfired when John was hanged for witchcraft. She was too stubborn to realize that her nonsense caused everyone in the town to suffer.…