Abigail Williams

other of being a witchcraft. It started with a group of girls dancing in the woods. Then people started accusing other for a motive such as getting their land and jealousy. The motives of Abigail williams and the Putnams had a negative impact on the Salem Witch trials. First, Abigail william’s had 2 motives. Abigail first motive is to get out of trouble and avoid punishment. In Act 1, She threaten to kill the girls if they say anything about what happened in the woods, “.. I will come to you…

that takes us back in time to some forty years after the Puritans first arrived in Salem. In it, we are introduced to characters based off of the real people that played a part in the trials, from Giles Corey with his famous “more weight!” to Abigail Williams, the very root of the trials, and she just happens to be the one to cause Salem’s destruction. Her character is complex, first starting off as a worried cousin of Betty Parris, who was supposedly unconscious after they were caught…

The Crucible, the characters of Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams can be compared and contrasted through Witchcraft, Love, and Lies. To begin with, Elizabeth was never a witch, nor had any contact with the devil. Unlike Abigail, she did have contact with the devil, she even drank blood to kill Elizabeth. “You drank blood, Abby! You didn’t tell him that!” (pg. 175). Betty was acting crazy and started to yell everything…

Abigail Williams’ has not only held a tremendous influence over Salem, but she has changed the lives of many. Tituba was the first person she accused of witchcraft. She was the maid of Abigail’s uncle who was very kind to her. Since the accusations against her, she lost her job working for the family and she also received a bad reputation within the community. Tituba also had to confess to witchcraft so she wouldn’t be hanged, and that was a major decision she had to make. Elizabeth was another…

vengeance will be the biggest player in The Crucible. Abigail Williams was a beautiful young girl who lived in Salem with her uncle, Reverend Parris. One night she and some other girls are caught dancing in the woods naked and singing. She and the other girls were trying to conjure the spirits of the boys they liked.…

your seat. The play is about a group of teenage girls that are caught dancing in the forest. They are caught by reverend Paris and he accuses them of doing witch craft. Among one of the teenage girls in the group is his niece and her name is Abigail Williams. She was the leader of the group and persuaded all the girls to dance in the forest. She gets an unexpected visit from John Proctor a local farmer she used to work for. She no longer worked for him because they had an affair and his wife…

Abigail Adams was born on November 11, 1744 in Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay. Her parents were William and Elizabeth. William was a Congregationalist minister. The importance of his position was to reason the rights and wrongs in his speaking. Elizabeth came down from the Quincy’s, “a family of great prestige in the colony.” (White House) She wasn’t the only child. William and Elizabeth had another son and two daughters, Abigail was the second child born. Abigail was not like every other…

The Crucible is a play that focuses on the awfulness of the Salem witch trials and the extreme behaviors that can result from dark desires and secret agendas. A jealous girl, Abigail Williams, is accused anyone and everyone of witchcraft, including her secret lover’s wife. These accused citizens were given unfair trials, and many of them were hanged without questioning. David Calvert is a man who is believed to be Jon Venables, the murderer of two-year-old James Bulger when in fact, he is not.…

Abigail Adams was born on November 11, 1744 to Reverend William Smith and Elizabeth Quincy, a five-generation American like Martha Washington’s mother. Abigail, due to her father’s career, grew up in a predominantly religious household, leading to religious influences to impact her life. One way was through the meeting of John Adams. The two had met in their youth at church; however, John found Abigail, who was much younger, to be undesirable. John Adams would be reintroduced to Abigail when…

lie. He shows this through Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and Judge Danforth. From the beginning of The Crucible Abigail Williams lies. Throughout the book she lies, manipulates her friends and the entire town, and eventually sends nineteen innocent people to their deaths (SparkNotes Editors). In Act I Abigail was about to get busted for experimenting with witchcraft, but managed to blame the whole situation on Tituba, Reverend Parris’s black slave from Barbados. Abigail had an affair with…