The Crucible: the Evilness and Selfishness of Abigail Williams
The Crucible: The Evilness and Selfishness of Abigail Williams
In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, there is one character who, because of her selfish and evil ways, causes the destruction of many people in the town of
Salem. This character is Abigail Williams. In the play, jealousy, and self- interest are the two characteristics that are seen constantly throughout the play. These characteristics pertain particularly to Abigail, and give a graphic description of her life, and how she deals with things in it. Throughout the play she gets worse and worse each time something major happens. After her affair and failure with voodoo, she was overcome by love and jealousy, and she was willing to do anything to get John back to her own self.
Since she was overcome, she had no concern with morals, and starts to sin heavily by starting the witch trials, which causes the deaths of many people in the town. Abigail doesn't want anyone to find out that she was in the forest so she harshly threatens Betty Paris and Mary Warren not to say anything. "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 can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down." She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals and her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings of love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these things she could no longer control herself, and her whole reason for living became to get back John. This shows that when a person is given something, which they enjoy, and even love, and they are denied it, they feel distraught and they will many times do almost anything to get it back. She was very desperate and she felt willing to do anything to get back
John for herself. She had been brought up to believe that magic
In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, there is one character who, because of her selfish and evil ways, causes the destruction of many people in the town of
Salem. This character is Abigail Williams. In the play, jealousy, and self- interest are the two characteristics that are seen constantly throughout the play. These characteristics pertain particularly to Abigail, and give a graphic description of her life, and how she deals with things in it. Throughout the play she gets worse and worse each time something major happens. After her affair and failure with voodoo, she was overcome by love and jealousy, and she was willing to do anything to get John back to her own self.
Since she was overcome, she had no concern with morals, and starts to sin heavily by starting the witch trials, which causes the deaths of many people in the town. Abigail doesn't want anyone to find out that she was in the forest so she harshly threatens Betty Paris and Mary Warren not to say anything. "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 can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down." She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals and her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings of love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these things she could no longer control herself, and her whole reason for living became to get back John. This shows that when a person is given something, which they enjoy, and even love, and they are denied it, they feel distraught and they will many times do almost anything to get it back. She was very desperate and she felt willing to do anything to get back
John for herself. She had been brought up to believe that magic