The Crucible Character Analysis
The Crucible
Jadynn Epker
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” (H. P. Lovecraft). The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is set in a controversial religious part of history that uses strict morals and disquietude to install panic of the unknown. In The Crucible, the reader can see that Abigail is a depraved, vengeful, manipulative, evil minded young girl who uses fear and spite to dictate the world around her. Using her vengeful and nasty, unforgiving past of witnessing her parents getting bashed in the head right next to her pillow helped her form a wall to hurt others before they hurt her. To be above everyone else at all times by using her evil mind, malicious words is how she sees success and safety in herself.
MANIPULATIVE: “ Abigail: She is blackening my name in the …show more content…
She targets innocent townspeople and uses scare tactics to frighten others into doing what she wants . You see this as she say “______________” (___). by using vengence Abigail controls everything in the palm of her hand.
EVIL MINDED
Abigail is evil minded because she undermines people into doing whatever she wants them to do.
“evil does not exist within an gun. It exist in the mind and hearts of those who pulled the trigger for evil purposes.” (Unknown).
CONCLUSION
“ 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
Jadynn Epker
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” (H. P. Lovecraft). The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is set in a controversial religious part of history that uses strict morals and disquietude to install panic of the unknown. In The Crucible, the reader can see that Abigail is a depraved, vengeful, manipulative, evil minded young girl who uses fear and spite to dictate the world around her. Using her vengeful and nasty, unforgiving past of witnessing her parents getting bashed in the head right next to her pillow helped her form a wall to hurt others before they hurt her. To be above everyone else at all times by using her evil mind, malicious words is how she sees success and safety in herself.
MANIPULATIVE: “ Abigail: She is blackening my name in the …show more content…
She targets innocent townspeople and uses scare tactics to frighten others into doing what she wants . You see this as she say “______________” (___). by using vengence Abigail controls everything in the palm of her hand.
EVIL MINDED
Abigail is evil minded because she undermines people into doing whatever she wants them to do.
“evil does not exist within an gun. It exist in the mind and hearts of those who pulled the trigger for evil purposes.” (Unknown).
CONCLUSION
“ 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