He was an honest, upright, and blunt-spoken man, but with one fatal flaw. His lust for Abigail Williams led to an affair and created Abigail’s jealousy for his wife, Elizabeth, which sets the entire witch hysteria into motion. Once the trials begin, Proctor realizes that he can stop Abigail’s rampage through Salem but only if he confesses to his adultery. After inheriting a substantial fortune from his father, Proctor went on to become a successful Farmer, Entrepreneur, and Tavern keeper whose name was well respected in the community.…
Elizabeth Proctor is a kind, caring woman who loves God and has never strayed from the path of the lord. Abigail Williams is a girl who has disobeyed at least three of the Ten Commandments of the lord most notably thou shan’t lie and thou shan’t covet thy neighbor’s wife or husband. Goody Proctor is falsely accused of witchcraft whereas Abigail is the one going left and right accusing people of being a witch. What most people don’t realize is that Abigail wanted John Proctor for herself and would do anything to do so. Elizabeth has done nothing wrong in the town of Salem yet everyone believes the voice of a 12 year old girl. To summarize the story, John Proctor is a man of god.…
Abigail Williams was a suspicious 11 or 12 year old girl who was the leading cause of the Salem Witch Trial hysteria. There is not much background information on her, but as far as history goes, Abigail was born 1680 and lived with her Uncle Samuel Parris’ family, who was the head Reverend of Salem, Massachusetts at the time. “Although it was ordinary practice for young girls to live with relatives to learn about housewifery, we know very little about Abigail, including where she was born and who her parents were.” (Yost, 2002) In an indirect way, Abigail has contributed to American history being that she was the main cause of the Salem Witch Trial accusations. The 6th amendment of the American Constitution was highly influenced by the Salem Witch Trials. With the 6th amendment, the accused are entitled to have a witness, an attorney for their defense, and will be heard before a jury in court. The Salem Witch Trials affected the way America viewed reliable evidence used in court cases because they stopped using spectral evidence. During the Witchcraft trials, the only evidence available was hear-say information from the girls who were “afflicted.” More than 45 innocent people were killed, because the court believed Abigail and the girls without looking into further detail about the spoken "witches." Nowadays, the accused are able to have a witness with them as well as some one who will look into their case and use accurate evidence to prove their innocence "until proven…
The setting of Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, conveys a powerful structure of jealousy to the reader’s understanding that Abigail Williams’ decision in concealing her affair with John Proctor will prevent charges of witchcraft on John Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth Proctor. In addition, Abigail William is marked as the lowest in the social pyramid in Salem. Witchcraft gave her instant recognition within Salem which fed her power from within, which led to the circulation of innocent people being indicted with false accusations.…
In act one Abigail Williams was most responsible for the riotous situation in Salem. “I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart”(pg 1099). Abigail is saying that John gave her hope and love. John Proctor had an affair on his wife Abigail causing her to fall in love with him. Her desire to have John for herself was a reason why all the chaos happened. Abigail would do anything to have John to herself even accuse Elizabeth, who is John’s wife,…
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…
What do we learn about the events in the forest and Abigail Williams' connections with the Proctor family?…
This story starts from “The Crucibles,” Act 4. The setting starts in a small prison located in Salem, Massachusetts in the year of 1692. John Proctor and Elizabeth are standing outside of the prison. Elizabeth is trying to persuade Proctor to confess to practicing witchcraft so he could avoid hanging. The different critical decisions my story will have Proctor admit to witchcraft and turn in the confession to Danforth, and then finding Abigail before she left for Barbados and charging her with witchcraft. I will be using 3rd person point of view.…
In this story, a group of people in Salem are accused of witchcraft after Reverend Parris’ daughter is unconscious and unresponsive after a suspicious night in the woods. One of the accused, Abby Williams commits adultery with John Proctor. After Abby is accuse, she tries to shift the blame onto others including the Parris’ slave, Tituba. She also accuses John’s wife Elizabeth Proctor because she is in love with John and wants to be with him. The story ends with the trial and people are hanged for witchcraft.…
Abigail Williams is a seventeen year old orphan, who cares more about herself than others and she values John Proctor. All throughout this book Abigail was doing multiple selfish things, trying to avoid herself getting into trouble. She lied about her and a group of girls practicing witchcraft in the forest. She also never told that she drunk blood in order to kill Elizabeth Proctor. John Proctor's wife, Elizabeth Proctor, said “I think she see another meaning in that blush.” Elizabeth knows that Abigail has something more like a special feeling about John…
All is fair in love and war" Abigail Williams a girl of 17, from The Crucible sure did put a new spin to this saying. She believed that her love for John Proctor, a married man, was true love and so did a great many atrocities for that so called "love" even though in truth it was just a affair. This girl is the main villain of this story and thus is characterized as such : crazy, obsessed, and truly a manipulative girl.…
“ABIGAIL, with a bitter anger: Oh, I marvel how such a strong man may let such a sickly wife be—PROCTOR, angered at himself as well: You'll speak nothin' of Elizabeth!ABIGAIL: She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold, sniveling woman, and you bend to her! Let her turn you like a—PROCTOR, shaking her: Do you look for whippin’?” Abigail pretends she’s angry at Elizabeth Proctor for damaging her reputation, the more powerful emotion is envy of Elizabeth for her marriage to John Proctor. All of this starts the rumors of witch craft. The rumors start with the girls in the woods and it escalades from there. PROCTOR: The road past my house is a pilgrimage to Salem all morning. The town’s mumbling witchcraft.ABIGAIL: Oh, posh!—We were dancin’ in the woods last night, and my uncle leaped in on us. She took fright, is all.PROCTOR: (His smile widens. Crossing to door.) Dancin’ by moonlight! (Abigail springs into his path.) You’ll be clapped in the stocks before you’re twenty. The rumors spread quickly of the girls and witch craft and have spread throughout the town. John Struggled to live with the wight if his sin and his wife is struggling to forgive…
In The Crucible, Abigail Williams, a seductive teenager, represents the Black Widow character archetype because of her manipulative ways to get the things that she wants. The Black Widow destroys anything she wants. Like Abigail, the Black Widow will lure someone into her web, trapping him or her until they have suffered for her own pleasure. When speaking of their previous affairs, John Proctor, a married farmer, requests that Abigail forgets it and speaks of it no more. But Abigail does not want to. “You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! (Miller 24)” Almost threatening-like, Abigail tells John Proctor he will love her. Abigail and her friends have a secret: They danced in the woods naked while conducting witchcraft, which is a sin. Abigail will do everything in her power to clear her name. Even if that means accusing innocent men and women of witchcraft and being “seen” with the Devil. When Abigail is almost caught for doing what she did, she panics and quickly blames Tituba, Reverend Parris’ slave from Barbados, for forcing her to do these diabolical things. “She sends her spirit on me in church; she makes me laugh at prayer! (Miller 44)” Most of Abby’s accusations force people to confess to witchcraft even if they did not do it because if the didn’t they would be hanged. During the trail of those who were accused, John Proctor uses Mary Warren, Proctor’s timid servant, to prove that Abigail Williams is lying. When Danforth, the judge for the witch…
Abigail being caught dancing in the woods, by her uncle, is the worst possible thing that could have happened to Salem in 1692. Since Abigail was afraid of getting in trouble by her uncle, her cousin Betty started acting sick, so did Mercy. Mr. Parris jumped to witchcraft can called in Rev. Hale a specialist on demonic arts. Once he got there, Abigail saw a chance to get back at the people she didn’t like, so she started throwing names out there of people she didn’t like. The twelve other girls started copying Abigail, before the town realized it, everything had already spiraled out of control. Parents started having their kids cry out witchcraft against their neighbors for their land.…
Society is going to judge people no matter what they do, so people might as well be who they want to be. In the crucible, during the Salam witch trials, Abigail Williams did what she wanted, she was not the typical Puritan, and definitely not a perfect one at that. She did things women were not allowed to do. She lied, and costed many people their lives because of it. She had a man cheat and blacken his name. She uses her acting skills and the girls around her to get others to believe the fake. Abigail Williams is not the perfect Puritan.…