How Is Abigail Presented In The Crucible

Abigail and Her Emotions The Crucible by Arthur Miller has plenty of emotions that are felt and cause many events in this story of anguish. The Crucible is set in a small puritan village in Massachusetts in 1692. It begins with a group a girls that get caught dancing in the forest, they try to hide what they were doing and they cause the Salem Witch Trials. If there is someone that fills out the model for and evil antagonist in this play it would definitely be the leader of the dancing girls, Abigail Williams. Abigail is 17 years old and on the outside appears sweet and innocent she willingly controls Salem with her manipulative personality. Abigail’s empowering vigilance, desperation, and remorsefulness is the cause for almost every event in the crucible. Abigail’s desperation gives us an ongoing plot centered around Proctor’s affair with Abigail, and he and his wife Elizabeth trying to recover form it. Abigail shows her desperation when she is alone with proctor and throwing herself at him trying to receive his love. “[Abigail] cannot sleep for dreamin‘, [She] cannot dream but [she] wake and walk about the house as though [she] find you comin’ through some door.” The quote is a great example of Abigail’s desperation, it shows how she
“[Abigail wants] to open [herself]! [she wants] the light of God, [she] wants the sweet love of Jesus; [she kissed] his hand. [she] saw Sarah Good with the Devil! [She] saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! [She] saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”. In this event Abigail clearly shows that she will stop at nothing to make the situation better for her. She does not care about any of the lives she puts in danger her remorsefulness leads to the hanging of seventeen