...Is the horrifying myth about witches really true? If they actually roam the earth, when exactly did they first exist and where do they live? In the 17th century, Abigail Williams insisted there were witches living in Salem, Massachusetts. Williams evoked the Salem Witch Trials after numerous suspects were convicted for Satanism; however, many were faulty accused and Abigail was blamed. Is there a catastrophe worse than the Devil’s spawn? McCarthyism was established after Senator Joseph McCarthy convinced the colonists of communism in the United States; as a result, innocent people were imprisoned and McCarthy was appointed to the court for witch trials. Although the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism occurred at different centuries in time,...
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...In Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, I believe that the main character, Abigail Williams, is to blame. Abigail is a very mean person who always wants everything her way, no matter who gets hurt. Many events from the past might have influenced her behavior, but she is a woman of her own actions. Throughout the play her lies cause many people pain and suffering, but she never really cared unless their name was John Proctor. I feel like she is a victim, not because of the society she is in, but a victim because she actually has done bad things. For example, John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor use to employ Abigail, until Elizabeth found out about the affair and kicked Abigail out. This is exactly what i'm talking about when I say she only cares...
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...get away with it. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Abigail Williams is one of those mean girls. The Crucible displays the chaos of the Salem Witch Trials, during which, an accusation meant time in jail and a trial. If the indicted person admitted to practicing witchcraft and repented, he or she was set free; but if the accused did not confess, that person lost their life. Abigail is one of the girls that charges many people of witchcraft, which leads many of those people to their hanging. She especially has it out for John Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, because Abigail would love to replace her. Ever diabolical, Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft...
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...Shortly after becoming a law, the first execution was made in Connecticut. This case was disturbing because it influenced everyone, in puritan societies, to believe that Satan was close at hand and physically able to act in the real world.. At the time, Salem was a Puritan community in which was built upon those who fled religious execution therefore the religious authority and the government was not separate. Those who would question local authority were blamed for questioning royal authority. Eventually the hysteria spread to Massachusetts in 1692 after two young girls had been acting in alarming and been in physical pain. The physician concluded that the girls were not victims of a physical or mental illness but victims of witchcraft.2. These two girls were Abigail Williams and Betty Parris. Abigail Williams, who was 11 years of age, had a...
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...Condemned Do you know the story of the crucible, if so do remember abigail williams. I just wanted to tell you do you think that abigail is guilty for the lies she made. She has committed in the town of salem. Is Abigail to blame for everything is she responsible? Abigail in the crucible is a very chaotic girl. She is a girl that hates everyone she wants everyone to do what she wants to do. She is a girl who will do something bad and she will get in trouble and she won’t get in trouble. Abigail is a horrible girl she made up a lie to get out of trouble and it cause many of innocent people to die for it. How much is Abigail to blame for the events that took place? She is all to blame for all of the horrifying events that happened in the town of Salem. She did...
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...The Story of John Proctor Is John Proctor a tragic hero? My definition of a tragic hero is a person who may be heroic but is destined to face a tragic downfall. I will explain why; in my eyes John Proctor was definitely a tragic hero. First of all Proctor was a good person. John Proctor was an honest man with an honest wife. He had a good, white name in the town of Salem. He seemed to be almost perfect.. except for one big secret flaw. John Proctor had an affair with a young woman who used to work for him, Abigail Williams. John’s wife, Elizabeth suspected something between the two and she became very jealous and angry. Elizabeth fired Abigail Williams out of her anger and jealousy. Abigail Williams also shows anger and jealousy towards...
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...several young girls were supposedly afflicted by witchcraft. And so the girls accused innocent people in their town for witchcraft also mostly accusing people who they or their families dislike so they would be hanged. In total 20 people were killed due to the witch trials. The three characters who were responsible for the Salem witch trials are Abigail Williams, Reverend Parris, and Betty Parris. Abigail Williams has most part why the witch trials started because she knew this was all a...
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...In the story, The Crucible, Abigail Williams accused many of the people in the town of being witches. Abigail Williams is not a victim of her society. People of Salem in the 1600’s believed anything they heard about someone being possessed by the devil. If someone accused you of being a witch, you would most likely be taken to trial and questioned. How it usually worked is if you admitted to being involved with the devil and told on someone else, you would not be hanged but your reputation is no longer any good. Other than the part of the court believing anything someone said, this situation was bad due to people making stories up and blaming other people. It was an endless cycle. Abigail Williams is in the wrong doing because she falsely accused many people, lied about being possessed by witches, and got innocent people killed. Abigail Williams falsely accused many people of practicing witchcraft in the town The Crucible took place in. The most important in the story though was Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctors wife. John had an affair on Elizebeth with Abigail, which was the motive behind the whole ordeal. Elizabeth fired Abigail from being their servant after she had figured out about the affair. She then wanted to get rid of Elizabeth so she accused...
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...Crazy Abigail Williams is crazy. There are a lot of examples throughout the book of her doing outright crazy things such as her accusing John Proctors wife, Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft hoping that Elizabeth will be executed or drinking blood to kill Elizabeth etc.. . Abigail accuses Tituba because she thinks people will believe witchcraft is something Tituba would most likely be involved in. "Crazy" people don't have empathy. Abigail Williams doesn't show any signs of empathy. The author says at the beginning of the play that Abigail has “an endless capacity for dissembling” with means she fakes and pretends and bluffs. You can see clear examples of this in act 3, when she is in court and Abigail changes her story from “we were just dancing”...
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...am Christine Aquino, the character I have portrayed in my physical representation is Abigail Williams in the classic play ‘The Crucible’. Arthur Miller depicts Abigail Williams as a villain. Abigail is seventeen years old, the niece of Reverend Parris, she has been working as a household help for Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail was fired for having an affair with Elizabeth’s husband, John Proctor. Abigail’s was a manipulative young girl. I have represented Abigail as a spider, as she manipulates events like a spider manipulates and captures it victims through its web. On the first act, it can be seen that Abigail has a surprising power over the girls, she controlled the girls with her threating dialogue, “And you know...
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...different roles. In the play, Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and Elizabeth Proctor all portray the difference in the treatment of women during that time. Abigail Williams is treated with more respect than the other two woman, because she was the first girl to to lie and give up the names of other people she claimed she saw with the Devil. Abigail was the niece of Reverend Parris who was the priest in Salem during the time of the witchcraft trials and was highly respected. Reverend Parris had been raising Abigail ever since her parents died when she was young. Abigail is confronted by Reverend Parris as to why she was dismissed from her nanning job with the Proctor’s. Abigail in this moment becomes very defensive and blames her release on the fact that the mother of the kids that she nannied for demanded that Abigail...
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...protect their reputation. Arthur Miller was able to develope these ideas through the setting and characters. He was able to incorporate his own experience into his play as he was a victim himself of McCarthyism. The Crucible is set in a small town, Salem in Massachusetts, America in 1692 where people were oblivious of anything other than God, believing that they were self righteous. In such time, reputation determined how people looked at you and was considered something of great importance. “A man will not cast away his good name“ shows us the importance of people’s reputation at that time. When something is regarded as such a high level of importance to someone, people will do anything in order to protect it even if the means are considered unjust and ‘unrighteous‘. Abigail accuses Elizabeth Proctor of ‘blackening my name in the village‘ after commiting adultery with John Proctor, Elizabeth’s husband. This cause her to fear for her reputation, and how people will view her. Afraid of her reputation, Abigail Williams acts in fear to and pointed the finger at Tituba claiming that she was practising witchcraft ‘she sends her spirit on me in Church; she makes me laugh at prayer!‘ Her desperate act of trying to save her reputation caused innocent people to be accused. This displays how immature Abigail is as she directs the negative attention towards Tituba in order to escape her consequences. In a town where imagination is considered a sin, and kids did not play, the towns people...
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...Abigail and the Crucible Throughout the crucible, the whole point of the story is to prove whether witchcraft is actually taking place, or if Abigail is just full of absolute lies. Abigail Williams was not the nicest of them all, but sometimes it seemed like she truly cared. In this situation, Abigail was absolutely a victim of her society because witchcraft was an excuse to show her mischievous behavior. It seemed as though Abigail was favored through the play. Abigail was a young girl who knew that she could win over the judge’s vote. There were times that he had no idea who was telling the truth and who was not. It did not seem to matter, whether he knew or not, he always ended up siding with Abigail. This caused many deaths that could have been prevented, if Abigail and her little friends learned to deal with what was given. Abigail was accusing people that she was mad at. In past events, John Proctor had seduced or taken advantage of...
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...how manipulative people can be very selfish and always blame others, and readers of The Crucible feel this way about Abigail Williams from the beginning. Arthur Miller influences the readers to think that Abigail is manipulative by using stage directions, quotes from other characters in the play, and quotes from Abigail. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller uses a variety of stage directions to formulate the opinion that Abigail in manipulative in the reader’s minds. For example, when Abigail is having her statements questioned for legitimacy, she shifts the court proceedings’ attention to Mary Warren by staring at Mary. Arthur Miller makes Abigail flawlessly throw the attention onto Mary when Miller narrates. The stage directions...
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...In the Crucible, there are concepts of weakness, courage, and truth that are displayed throughout the play and through significant roles. There are characters in the play that are weak in the sense that they are simply too afraid to speak, such as the character Mary Warren who was afraid to speak up about how Abigail Williams and the other girls were merely faking the entire situation. There is also Reverend Parris who didn’t want to admit that he had seen one of the girls naked and blamed it all on witchcraft. Abigail Williams is also a victim of weakness as she couldn’t keep away from John Proctor. Next is courage. Of course, John Proctor showed immense courage throughout the play by sacrificing himself for his wife and others who were...
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