preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand.” (Applebee et al. 167) So when Reverend Parris found girls from Salem dancing in the woods late one night it caused panic throughout the town, nevertheless this is what started the Salem Witch Trials. An analysis of Abigail Williams shows that she was an afflicted, naive teenage girl trying to win the heart of John Proctor.
In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams is said to be seventeen years old, and an orphan. “I saw…
Words 1047 - Pages 5