Abby Williams In The Crucible
Abigail Williams is selfish, manipulative, and a compulsive liar. The entire play wouldn’t exist, if Abby hadn’t have been so jealous and selfish. It was Abby’s fault that the girls were in the woods with Tituba trying to cast a spell on Elizabeth Proctor, because Abby is in love with her husband John. The whole reason the Salem Witch Trials even started was because Abby was in love with a man that wasn’t her’s to have in the first place, and she wanted to do anything possible to get rid of his wife so that she could replace her. When Abby’s uncle, Reverend Parris, catches the girls dancing in the woods, Abby goes into defense mode. All she cares about is how she can get herself out of the mess she is in, and how she can bring down Elizabeth Proctor and all the other people she doesn't like in the midst of things. Somehow the only logical response is to blame witchcraft for everything, and oddly enough the townspeople are believing it! I find it a little ridiculous how Abby is actually getting away with all of this. Innocent people are getting accused of a crime that is punishable by death, and Abby seems to feel no remorse or guilt at all
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whatsoever. Abby is also very manipulative in getting what she wants. There is no way she could have pulled this whole thing off if she didn’t have her friends helping her. They too also seemed to feel no remorse or guilt for sending all these innocent people to their deaths. But I think that Abby scared the girls into doing what she does because she tells them, “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it... I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!” So Abby is not afraid to scare people into doing her dirty work for her. When Mary Warren tries to come out and tell the truth about what is going on, Abby shuts her down so quickly it is not even funny. Mary Warren and John Proctor work together to bring truth into the courthouse and John even destroys his good name in the community to try and get his wife out of jail after Abby accused her of sending her spirits out and stabbing her. Abby somehow manages to convince the judge that Mary Warren is a witch and has transformed into a bird and is going to kill them all. Abby is so selfish she is turning against her own friend to get her way! And Abby has such a hold over these girls that Mary Warren eventually gives in and confesses to making dealings with the devil, John Proctor. So all of Abby’s shenanigans backfire on her whenever it ends up with John, “the love of her life”, getting accused of witchcraft. Her “plan” all along was to get rid of Elizabeth, and then replace her as John’s wife. John however, does not like her at all anymore and has to keep telling her that he loves Elizabeth and that she will never replace her. So when her plan backfires and John ends up getting sent to jail, Abby steals all of her uncle’s money and skips town, but not before going to see John and begging him to come with her. How pathetic and selfish of her. Throughout the whole play Abby is just so selfish and inconsiderate of others. It is hard to fathom how somebody can be okay with knowing that they are the reason that a bunch of innocent people are literally being sent to their death, just so that Abby can get revenge on Elizabeth for kicking her out and for being John’s wife. After all lust and envy are two of the seven deadly sins and Abby is full of both. Overall, Abby is the reason that everything that happened in the play (and in real life).
Without her we would have no plot, and no actual historic event that happened in real life. In order to have a good story with a good plot, you need the perfect antagonist, and that is most definitely Abigail Williams. So if The Crucible was just a play then Abby would be kinda cool, cause again if it wasn’t for her we would have no plot twists, or anything interesting. But since The Crucible is based on the Salem witch trials which happened in real life and that Abby Williams is a real person, I feel strongly that Abby Williams is not a good person and not cool at all. But then again, not everybody in the world is purely good nor purely evil. There will always be a mix of the two. Abby Williams just happened to dabble on the dark
side.
whatsoever. Abby is also very manipulative in getting what she wants. There is no way she could have pulled this whole thing off if she didn’t have her friends helping her. They too also seemed to feel no remorse or guilt for sending all these innocent people to their deaths. But I think that Abby scared the girls into doing what she does because she tells them, “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it... I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!” So Abby is not afraid to scare people into doing her dirty work for her. When Mary Warren tries to come out and tell the truth about what is going on, Abby shuts her down so quickly it is not even funny. Mary Warren and John Proctor work together to bring truth into the courthouse and John even destroys his good name in the community to try and get his wife out of jail after Abby accused her of sending her spirits out and stabbing her. Abby somehow manages to convince the judge that Mary Warren is a witch and has transformed into a bird and is going to kill them all. Abby is so selfish she is turning against her own friend to get her way! And Abby has such a hold over these girls that Mary Warren eventually gives in and confesses to making dealings with the devil, John Proctor. So all of Abby’s shenanigans backfire on her whenever it ends up with John, “the love of her life”, getting accused of witchcraft. Her “plan” all along was to get rid of Elizabeth, and then replace her as John’s wife. John however, does not like her at all anymore and has to keep telling her that he loves Elizabeth and that she will never replace her. So when her plan backfires and John ends up getting sent to jail, Abby steals all of her uncle’s money and skips town, but not before going to see John and begging him to come with her. How pathetic and selfish of her. Throughout the whole play Abby is just so selfish and inconsiderate of others. It is hard to fathom how somebody can be okay with knowing that they are the reason that a bunch of innocent people are literally being sent to their death, just so that Abby can get revenge on Elizabeth for kicking her out and for being John’s wife. After all lust and envy are two of the seven deadly sins and Abby is full of both. Overall, Abby is the reason that everything that happened in the play (and in real life).
Without her we would have no plot, and no actual historic event that happened in real life. In order to have a good story with a good plot, you need the perfect antagonist, and that is most definitely Abigail Williams. So if The Crucible was just a play then Abby would be kinda cool, cause again if it wasn’t for her we would have no plot twists, or anything interesting. But since The Crucible is based on the Salem witch trials which happened in real life and that Abby Williams is a real person, I feel strongly that Abby Williams is not a good person and not cool at all. But then again, not everybody in the world is purely good nor purely evil. There will always be a mix of the two. Abby Williams just happened to dabble on the dark
side.