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Abigail Williams

Who is abigail?

Who is abigail

- Abigail Williams

- She is the main villain in the Play

- Around 11 12 years old

Was a servant in the Proctors house until she got fired

What is Abigail Williams like?

representation

- She has virtues and vices

Virtues

- Independant

- Believes that nothing is impossible or beyond grasp

- She lacks the conscience to keep herself in check

Virtues

Vices

- She sees nothing wrong with her affair with John Proctor

- Lust

- Vengenful

- Jealous

What is she passionate about?

Love and passion

- She loves having the forbidden affair with John Proctor

- Abigail wants to have revenge on Elizabeth Proctor

What was Abigail described as?

- she tells lies

- manipulates her friends and the entire town,

- eventually sends nineteen innocent people to their deaths.

appearence

Appearance

- strikingly beautiful girl with an endless capacity for dissembling

- no specific description of what she dresses like

Thoughts about inner-self

- she is one of the best liars

- she manipulates people

Who and what does Abigail want to control?

control

- to avoid severe punishment for casting spells and adultery, she plots Elizabeth's death. Abigail shifts the focus away from herself by accusing others of witchcraft.

- This desperate act of self-preservation soon becomes Abigail's avenue of power.

Quote

Quotes

"I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart. I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!"

Act 1

Symbol

What did Abigail accomplish?

Abigail Williams was among the first of the children to falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft

Accomplishment

What were the challenges Abigail had to face?

Challenge

- She is motivated by jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor;

- she wants Elizabeth to die so she can marry John, Elizabeth's husband.

She inflicts a stabbing wound upon her chest, demonstrating her manipulative characteristic

How did Abigail change througout the play?

At the end of the play, when Abigail realizes that her plan has failed and that she has condemned Proctor to hang, she displays the same cold indifference that governs her actions throughout the play. She flees Salem, leaving Proctor without so much as a second glance.

Development

how is Abigail selfish

Selfishness

Selfishness in the Crucible is different for each character. Abigail Williams was a character in an Arthur Miller play called The Crucible. Not only was she a character in Miller's play, she was a real woman during the Salem witch trials and caused just as much trouble in her real life as she did in the play. Abigail was extremely selfish, cruel, and possibly insane. She hurts so many people in such a short amount of time and doesn't seem to care much unless she gets into trouble. The trait that really stood out when she went over Abigail Williams was how selfish she was, she'd do anything to avoid trouble. Many people died because she wouldn't stop falsely blaming everyone she had a problem with.When she started making accusations, everyone else started contributing, they did it because they wanted land. She also attempted to take John Proctor away from his loving wife, Elizabeth. Abigail was very cruel, basically forcing her friends to be part of the big lie she was making up about witches. She threatened to kill them if they said anything. She eventually failed in her attempts to get together with John Proctor, but for a while later she still wanted to be with him and even accused John's wife of witchcraft. When her friend Mary Warren tried to tell the truth, Abigail started acting like Mary was a witch. It takes a very selfish person to do the things they did. She had hanged tons of townspeople she had known all her life. Threatened to murder her friends if they told anyone the truth about them, tried to get together with a married man and even made the decision to jail John's wife Elizabeth, she succeeded and

eventually Elizabeth was hanged.

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