Abigail Williams

Williams is the antagonist, throughout the play despite her several struggles and unfortunate childhood. William’s witnessed her parents death of her Father and Mother get bludgeoned by Native Americans. After Williams witnessed a horrific scene, she became an orphan. At age seventeen, she developed skills to be a servant for a for family. The family lives outside the town on a farm, named the Proctors. Williams is sneaky, smart and vindictive teenager…

end up dying because of the trails. The Salem Witchcraft Trials empowered previously powerless people such as Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and Tituba by giving them the ability to determine people’s fate through accusations. The person who benefits the most from the Salem Witchcraft Trials is Abigail Williams because people start to trust her blindly. In the beginning of the play, Abigail barely had any authority in the town. When her uncle, Reverend Parris, asks her what she and the other…

characters such as Abigail Williams and John Proctor…

this quote expresses the characters that portray the play. As shown in the Crucible text, Abigail Williams is a liar, corrupted, and lustful woman. On the contrast, Elizabeth Proctor is a honest, kind, and loyal woman. Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor both had different personalities. They were the literal definition of ‘fire and ice’, and ‘complete opposites’. “Mr. Danforth, he’s lying!” Whenever Abigail says this, she is the one lying herself. On the other hand, whenever Elizabeth…

applied to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Abigail Williams is the true crucible of Salem, violently testing the Puritan beliefs that the town holds dear. She is dishonest and lustful, behaves selfishly, and gets off scot free in the end. Almost every aspect of Abby Williams’s personality goes against Puritan beliefs and leads to her very presence testing the fabric of Salem. The Crucible truly refers to this seventeen year old siren with a taste for drama and tragedy. Abigail…

That particular character is named Abigail Williams. She has done things throughout the novel that is explicit. Abigail had an affair with John Proctor while he was with Elizabeth, she framed Elizabeth with a poppet which is considered doing or attempted witchcraft, and she pretended to be taken over by the Devil to make Elizabeth seem more guilty. What she does is everything a heartless soul would do. A question that runs through some people’s minds is did Abigail deserve the outcome of the…

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. Abigail Williams had reason for starting this group that worshiped the devil. It was not Tituba that is at fault or was it she that was the leader of all of our fellow daughters.…

Arthur Miller Abigail williams has an affair with John Proctor which leads to abigail getting attacked to John. John feels dreadful about committing adultery so he tries to keep his distance from Abigail. Abigail responds by accusing a plethora of people of witchcraft after getting caught in the woods dancing which was a sin in 17th century Puritan society. A fair amount of people could receive blame in the Crucible for all the deaths that happened but for the most part, Abigail williams is to…

In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible Abigail Williams is a deceitful character who takes advantage of many people throughout the play. In the first scene of the play Abigail allegedly lies to her uncle about her actors in the woods. She swears to him that all they did was have fun, “There is nothin’ more. I swear it, uncle” (Miller 464). Abigail's uncle believes her lies and soon the the town begins to believe her foolish lies because no one believes someone would lie about witchcraft. She fools…

Abigail Williams: The Ultimate “Mean Girl” Abigail Williams serves as the ultimate mean girl; manipulating her friends, telling lies to save herself, and accusing others of death punishable crimes. She does not care what she has to do, she will get her way in the end even if that means others have to die. Abigail serves as the antagonist throughout The Crucible destroying other people 's lives with the only intentions of self happiness. It does not matter who one is, Abigail would throw them…