The Crucible, Static Character Abigail
In Arthur Miller 's The Crucible, the main character Abigail Williams is to blame for the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, Abigail Williams remained a static character throughout the book. Abigail is a mean, deceitful and manipulative person who always wants her way; she has no remorse about who she hurts along her journey to get her want she wants.
Abigail Williams is a manipulative evil person throughout The Crucible; she can be characterized as manipulative because she influences the girls throughout the entire book in order to make the witch trials go her way. She often uses verbal and sometimes physical threats to get her way. For example, in the beginning of The Crucible, Betty who is Abigail’s cousin is in a “coma.” Betty is only pretending to be in a coma because she is worried that she will be in trouble because of what she in the girls were doing the night before. Abigail get feed up with Betty pretending and begins to shake and hit her in order to wake her up, she orders her to stop this. As a final way of verbal threatening during the beginning, Abigail says, “Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sister. And that is all. And mark this. 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 saw Indians smash my dear parents’ heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!” Abigail was pilling on her threats in order to see that no one would find out her involvement in the night before. In the middle of The Crucible, Abigail remains her same manipulative self. When Mary Warren tries to defy them, she makes all the girls repeat whatever she says, she tries to get inside Mary Warren’s head to make her rejoin Abigail. Abigail also says to Mary Warren,
Abigail Williams is a manipulative evil person throughout The Crucible; she can be characterized as manipulative because she influences the girls throughout the entire book in order to make the witch trials go her way. She often uses verbal and sometimes physical threats to get her way. For example, in the beginning of The Crucible, Betty who is Abigail’s cousin is in a “coma.” Betty is only pretending to be in a coma because she is worried that she will be in trouble because of what she in the girls were doing the night before. Abigail get feed up with Betty pretending and begins to shake and hit her in order to wake her up, she orders her to stop this. As a final way of verbal threatening during the beginning, Abigail says, “Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sister. And that is all. And mark this. 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 saw Indians smash my dear parents’ heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!” Abigail was pilling on her threats in order to see that no one would find out her involvement in the night before. In the middle of The Crucible, Abigail remains her same manipulative self. When Mary Warren tries to defy them, she makes all the girls repeat whatever she says, she tries to get inside Mary Warren’s head to make her rejoin Abigail. Abigail also says to Mary Warren,