took the blame and did not lie about what happened. Abigail lied and made her friends lie just so she would not get in trouble for her sin. Abigail 's behavior and involvement of others created a more complex reason to judge…
People are products of their environment and Abigail’s environment had shaped her into an emotional, unstable young girl. Consider this, her parents’ death created her need for attention and love, a need that John Proctor met for her. Consequently, when he betrayed her, she was driven into a temporary insanity. In the beginning she had no intent to involve witchcraft, but instead wanted everything to go back to normal, avoid conflict. But when she saw there was no escape from her actions, she embraced it so she would not be to blame, using it as a scapegoat for her actions that were frowned upon by the strict Puritan society. With this intention, one lie built upon another, each lie told in an attempt to accomplish some hidden agenda, despite the consequences others would face for her mistakes. One lie to explain her behavior, another to kill Goody Proctor, a third to stop Marry Warren from telling the truth, etc. Therefore, when all her lies came crashing down around her and her credibility was questioned, she felt there was no other choice but to face her reality and flee before she was hung herself. Victimized by her own immature choices that she felt were forced upon her, Abigail was driven by her own lack of self-love and desperate need for attention created by her parent’s death and those within the…
As she becomes frightened, Mary tries to convince Abigail by saying “Abby we’ve got to tell, witchery’s a hanging error” (17) and “ You’ll only be whipped for dancing, and the other things” (1107). After having enough of Mary Warren, Abby says “ I say shut it, Mary Warren!” (1108), to try and keep her on her side and use fear as a tactic to convince her. Abigail’s threatening nature she used on all the girls including Mary Warren was why they all wanted to keep her happy.…
During this part of the play characters are filled with hysteria and it seems as though madness has struck the town. Abigail makes accusations after all of the other girls have already accused many people in the town. I believe Abigail started to accuse others in the town of witchcraft so that she could have attention and was also pressured into it. Since everyone else was making accusations Abigail would have needed to also accuse people or else they might have started to question her or accused her of being a witch.…
Abigail makes her first accusations of witchcraft because of the pressure to find a cause for Betty’s sudden illness. Witchcraft is an evil practice to the Puritans of Salem, and the mention of it worries Abigail’s Uncle, Parris. Parris’s worry and the quickly spreading rumor of witchcraft put pressure on Abigail to explain the events…
Through Act 1, Abigail changes her character a number of times. We, as readers, never get to know her true character. In the beginning of the act she is almost portrayed as innocent, presented with "worry", "apprehension" and "propriety", shown in her stage directions such as "quavering as she sits". From this moment in time, the audience are unsure whether she is genuinely caring for her niece Betty or if she is diguising her true self with a selfless cover up. We learn from her dispute with Parris that she had been found dancing in the woods with…
Although Abigail is guilty for starting everything she’s still a young girl and had terrible role models. Then she had seen her parents get killed and he only cared about his image in the people’s eye’s . However , she didn’t need to follow her uncle’s footsteps and could have prevented their family’s reputation from going bad. To dispute she could also have said the truth and be a mature 16 year old. Despite all the things she’s been through it didn’t mean she could start chaos in the…
Abigail starts accusing people at this point because she is power hungry a by accusing other people then she is no longer looked at as a source to the problem. No longer considered a witch.…
Although Abigail wasn't the only girl to make that initial cry of witchcraft, she was the leader of the girls who did. When Betty Parris and Ruth Putnam had faked illness to avoid punishment for getting caught dancing in the woods, it was Abigail who manipulated all the girls involved into lying about it. She threatened them, saying “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…
She uses her untainted reputation to bring her away from trouble by casting the blame on other innocent women. Abby’s uncle is speaking to her about what he saw last night with their “party”, and Abigail tries to get out of it by lying and trying to make their party was not as evil as what Puritans think. Abigail says, “(in terror). No one was naked! You mistake yourself, uncle!” (170). Abigail desperately tries to deny any situation that there were some weird stuff happening the prior night. She lies quickly to her uncle about many things such as a misplaced dress and dancing and casting a charm on Elizabeth Proctor. Although her uncle believes most of it, she would accuse Tituba of all the mess. This shows how Abigail tries to save herself by accusing others of witchery, caused by her…
Abigail is the reason that the mess of the witch trials got started in The Crucible. In the first act of the play after Tituba confessed to committing witchcraft, Abigail started to blame other people for using witchcraft. Abigail started the her first accusations by saying, “I want to open myself! They turn to her, startled. She is enraptured, as though in a pearly light. I want the…
“Watching a compulsive liar scramble to damage control when the truth and secrets unfold, knowing that they’re hurting others, makes them inconceivably shameful.” This quote is a good definition to describe Abigail Williams morals and how she lives as a person. Abigail Williams is a character from the famous book, The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Malicious, psychotic, and manipulative are a couple of the many words that can describe Abigail Williams to more than an extent. She has no actual morals, she just thinks about herself, what she wants, and what she can say or do that will benefit her. Abigail lies, manipulates, and due to her selfish ways, her false testimonies, sent over twenty people to death, jail, because of her love for john…
Abigail posses an immoral persona and many of her actions are unethical. She wants one thing and one thing only, John Proctor, a married man. She participates in infidelity and constructs a web of lies. She knows that it is a sin to have sex with a married man but continues to proclaim her love for him, “I will not, i cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is you love me yet!” (The Crucible, Act 1). In connection with the infidelity she lies on Elizabeth, Proctor’s wife, and says her spirit stabbed her when in reality she stabbed herself. Similar to her lack of emotions it proves how immoral, unethical, and selfish she really is.…
“ The thing is- fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.” (william golding) As abigail terrorizes the town into complete chaos people began to show their hidden dark secrets. Abigail unravels scandalous secrets that everyone is trying to throw away, like if they were old dark clothing that doesn't fit anymore. Abigail uses anything and everything to pastow fear and terror in everyone to get even with people from her past that she thinks did her…
Abigail Williams is a main character in The Crucible who seems to follow the advice that Lady Macbeth gave his husband regarding how to lie. Abigail actually look[s] like the innocent flower, for she is a young girl whom nobody seems to mistrust, and everybody refers to her and her friends as the girls, something which adds to her the power of innocence. However, she is the serpent under [the flower], for she takes advantage of how people trust in her and uses this in her favour to attack with her lies. Abigail knows that they will trust her because she bear[s] welcome in [her] eye[s], and…