Abigail Williams Essay

Honestly, Abigail Williams from the Crucible by Arthur Miller was no way near being a Puritan women. She was very different from all the other women in that town at the time. I have a few reasons to back that up also. Abigail committed adulatory, she also took place in which craft. Also she never kept her mouth shut and never really listened to any other men in Salem. She also was a very good liar .She was very weird and she will always seem weird. For my first point on why she is…

problem, they may not repeat the same actions that led to it and, therefore, move forward. However, even though people understood that the hysterias created by Abigail Williams in, The Crucible, were due to her own selfishness and close-mindedness, people today continue to practice those same vices, only to a more massive extent. Abigail Williams was led by her own desire to manipulate those in Salem to commit her crimes. She did this through pretending to have a connection with their most…

witches considering the fact that witchcraft is nonexistent. Moving right along, the townsfolk in The Crucible were too absorbed in getting rid of witches that none of them thought about what they were doing. The key orchestrator of these events, Abigail Williams, perpetrated this cruelty upon others in an act of…

woman, despite the misogynistic system of the village, rose to the top of society through manipulation and harlotry. Abigail Williams realizes that under normal circumstances, she holds no influence in Salem, but giving in to the irresistible desire for power, she seeks to change this by making a series of baseless accusations against the other citizens in town. The only way for Abigail to move up the social hierarchy in Salem would be to prey on the intense piety and fear of the Devil held by…

Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Abigail Williams is most to blame in the Salem witch trials. She was an orphan that lived in Salem, Massachusetts with her uncle, reverend Pairrs, and her cousin, Betty Parris. She was seventeen years old and the leader of the group of girls in Salem. Miller demonstrated that it was Abigail William’s flaws - Dishonestly, Lust, and vengefulness – that led her to be most responsible for the tragedy of the witch-hunt in Salem. Abigail shows dishonesty almost…

1692, witchcraft seemed surreal. 11 females from a varying age were accused of witchcraft, with Abigail Williams at the head of the crew. The play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the reader shows how the men overrule the women in 1692. The men control almost all the power of social classes in the Puritan Society. If a woman defies a man, she will suffer. Although it is a wrong doing, Abigail Williams still chooses to defy. This is only to save herself from the noose. The Crucible takes place…

The One That Got Away “You never know how much you love someone until you watch them love someone else” (Pinterest). In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams falls in love with John Proctor after being his maid but, for John to love her back, death would be forced upon his wife. Since Abigail Williams is motivated by her love for John Proctor, her decision to sabotage John and Elizabeth’s marriage creates death for John and many others by the end of the play. Abigail’s love…

played a part in this fatal story, Abigail Williams plays the biggest role as to why all the tragic deaths occurred in the small village. Manipulation and selfishness were just a couple of the negative traits portrayed by Abigail Williams that lead to her eventual fall. "Shut it! Now shut it! We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. Let either…

Arthur Miller takes place in the 1600’s. “The Crucible” is about the Salem witches. Abigail the niece of the towns Reverend convinced Salem that the devil is among them. Everyone in town is terrified of this so called witchcraft. John Proctor was an innocent who was executed for no reason, he wasn’t a witch. He just wanted to show how dumb the town was with the stories of being bewitched by a demon. Abigail Williams, niece of Reverend Samuel Parris’s is rumored in town that she is a witch.…

Abigail Williams, the manipulative niece of Parris, has the deeper wish to murder Goody Proctor, and take her place as John’s wife; this motive provokes her to drink blood and cast charms, to express evil’s existence in the courtroom, and to frame Elizabeth with a poppet--all of these causing conflict and excitement to rise in Salem. After having an affair with John, Abigail is dismissed from her job as a servant in the Proctor’s household; being away from her lover for so long makes Abby…