Abigail Williams Motivation

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The town of Salem is an early American settlement in the late 1600’s. It has impulsive leadership and is prone to mass hysteria due to the Puritan beliefs that encompass the area. The person that takes advantage over this the most is Abigail Williams, she is the niece of Samuel Parris and is an orphan. She is a manipulator all throughout the events of the story and her only motivation seems to be to get to Elizabeth Proctor and ruin her name. On page 142, Line 73, Abigail says “would never hurt Betty… love her dearly” this quote can be taken as simple innocence and fact at the beginning of the story. However, once Abigail’s intentions and overall motives are taken into place, it is fairly obvious that she is simply pretending and only cares

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demeanor after they are seen dancing in the forest. The young women act as if they are in critical condition that may possibly be a coma. Abigail Williams, one of the girls found in the woods, seemed as if she was not affected by the "coma". Abigail then begins to accuse citizens of practicing witchcraft. Miller makes it especially clear why John Proctor, Abigail Williams, and Rebecca Nurse act the way they do. John Proctor is a remorseful yet loving husband. Proctor is the leading man of the play. Proctor…

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10/24/17 Period 1 Abigail Williams “The Crucible” is a play by Arthur Miller about witchcraft during the early colonial American period, comparable to the Salem witch trials. While there are characters who are more at fault than others in this play, it seems like there are no characters who are completely without any blame in the play’s events. But, there is one character in “The Crucible” who can be identified as the central villain, Abigail Williams. Abigail William is the niece of Reverend…

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desires. The play reflects a wide range of personalities and motivations from the characters.The Salem villagers also display flaws that include, greed, vengeance, and fear, which eventually lead to the abstraction of their town. In The Crucible, the people of Salem are trying get rid of the evil/ witchcraft that they assume is present. The town officials are listening to the girls and are believing every remark they make. When Abigail and the other girls are confronted for performing witchcraft…

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good. In effect, it becomes apparent that the accusers do not possess a power to prove another of a "Satanic alliance", but rather branch their motivations from ambition, a theory probed by Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. Afraid of the severe penalties for secretly dancing in the forest and chanting spells, characters such as Tituba and Abigail Williams accuse others of witchcraft for their self-preservation. Capitalizing on this newly acquired power, Abby's self-preservation transforms into a…

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John Proctor and Abigail are alone in the room with Betty. Proctor questions Abigail about Betty's illness, suspecting that responsibility for "this mischief" probably lies with Abigail. Denying any involvement in witchcraft, Abigail states that she and the girls merely danced in the woods. Abigail asks Proctor if he has come to see her, but Proctor denies it. The conversation reveals that approximately seven months earlier, Abigail and Proctor had an affair while Abigail lived and worked in…

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but rather an adulterer. This scene also displayed Abigail Williams, the antagonist, motivation. It revealed her as a woman desperate for the love of John Proctor. Abigail Williams is first showcased to the readers during the introductions. She runs into the forest with most of the girls from the village. The girls fill a pot with herbs and yell the name of the man they want to entice. Tituba leads the spell they all want to cast while Abigail asks for John Proctor and for Tituba to bring death…

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The Crucible Abigail Williams is found in The Crucible, Elements of Literature Fifth Course. She was nothing more than a very upset teen that had to get revenge for something that cost many people their lives. She was Elizabeth, John's wife, servant and had an affair with John Proctor behind her back. Elizabeth later found out about the affair and kicked Abigail out sending her to live with her uncle Reverrend Parris. She continued to love John months after being kicked out of the Protor's…

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history it was based on. These changes help to make the story of the play more dramatic. In his play The Crucible, Miller changed aspects of the original history to better entertain the audience. Miller added an affair between John Proctor and Abigail Williams to his retelling of the Salem Witch Trials to make the story more dramatic. In The Crucible, Proctor cheats on…

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slave and is in her forties. Was brought by Samuel when he was a merchant in Barbados. Was yelled at to leave the room from Samuel when checking on Betty. Abigail Williams- She is Samuel’s niece. She is 17 years old. She is a beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling. Susanna Walcott- is a little younger than Abigail, is nervous and hurried when entering Samuels house. Mrs. Ann Putnam she is a twisted soul at age 45, she is a death ridden woman. Thomas Putnam is around…

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McCarthyism as shown in The Crucible Miller conveys his social commentary and opinion that the McCarthy Trials are stemmed from devious volition with his manipulative characterization of Abigail Williams. Abigail’s feigned innocence is comparative to McCarthy’s thin veneer of “belief” in the communist uprising. Abigail responds to Parris’s questioning of her actions relating to her release from Goody Proctor’s service by lamenting that, “[Elizabeth’s] a bitter woman, a lying, cold, sniveling woman,”…

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