Abigail Williams Crucible

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In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams is one of the main characters play the role of evil force in the story and she is also a character makes the story become more charismatic by the debate between good people and bad people. In this essay I will demonstrate the ugliness and cruelty of Abigail through three main points, her harlotry, lunacy and accusations.
Firstly, the readers can easily see the nature of Abigail is a lewd woman, who is willing to destroy the family happiness between John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor just to satisfy the needs themselves. Abigail knowingly gave herself to John Proctor even though he was married which shows that abigail is lust of a common whore for worldly pleasures. As an example, …show more content…
Abigail’s accusations of witchcraft causes chaos in salem, as a result many of the accuses are confirmed to death by her evil and vengeful lies of accusation. She started accusing after she and another girl who was spotted dancing in the forest, at that time the rumors of witchcraft being bandied. After that, Betty-One of the girls joins Abigail’s group has a problems, this makes the actions of these girls become more suspicious. When Abigail being questioned about the matter, she did not hesitate to point the finger at Tituba and said: “She made me do it. She made betty do it” (43, Act One). When Tituba denies this, Abigail goes …show more content…
You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!’
ABIGAIL, smashes her across the face: ‘Shut it! Now shut it!’(19, Act One)
Abigail believes that drinks chicken blood is a spell that could help her to complete her plans. This exemplifies a selfish desire of Abigail's to have John Proctor and how evil she is willing to be to get her desire. The excitement in the quote shows sureness and an upset attitude toward Abigail's selfishness. Even more, she also hit Betty and threatens her to make Betty quiet. This shows that there is a violent personality inside Abby. Back to the previous detail we can see more of her violent personality when she threats another girl after they were caught dancing in the woods. Abigail becomes frantic that of the girls will tell in an effort to save themselves from being severely punished. Abigail comes up with a plan, she threatens the girls: "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." (20, Act One). She wants them to say that they were only dancing, nothing else. She is determined to make them listen to her, she is a forceful personality. She makes it clear that she is capable of harming them, if anyone told the truth, she would come to them in the night with a sharp, pointy object and kill them. She wants to make sure that she
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