Abigail Williams In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Abigail Williams is a beautiful 17-year old girl who has an endless capacity for dissembling and is the niece of Reverend Parris, who happens to be the minister of Salem, Massachusetts. Due to the fact that she is living with her uncle and her 10-year old cousin, Betty, Abigail is an orphan because when she was a little girl, her parents were attacked by Indians. She is obsessed with John Proctor because she had an affair with him. With that being said, her affair with John and being caught in the woods dancing around a fire with other girls and her servant, Tituba, leads to many innocent people's lives to death. Overall, Abigail Williams is a typical teenage girl who accuses people of witchcraft and wants to

By doing so, Tituba, the girls, and Abigail all go down into the woods and dance around a fire so that Abigail can drink chicken blood to get rid of Elizabeth. A few hours go by and her uncle, Reverend Parris, spots them dancing and all the girls run away, “We were dancing is all…” (Miller 1269). Betty goes into shock and cannot wake up and is sent home. At this time the whole town is questioning the girls and ask if they’re witches. Reverend Parris is upset and questions Abigail repeatedly what they were doing in the woods. Abigail denies that she was practicing witchcraft and that everyone was just dancing, “Uncle, we did dance; let you tell them I confessed it-and I’ll be whipped if I must be. But they’re speaking of witchcraft. Betty’s not bewitched” (Miller,1262). Abigail tries to hide everything that they did by threatening the girls by saying,”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” (Miller 1264). This makes all the girls fear Abigail and respect her. When Mary Warren, the Proctor’s servant, tells John that if he confesses to the judge in court about Abigail trying to kill Elizabeth, Abigail will use lechery against him, “Abby’ll charge lechery on you, Mr. Proctor” (Miller 1310 ). From