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Abigail Williams In The Crucible By Aurthur Miller

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Many authors use specific themes to develop their purpose in their literature. Aurthur Miller focuses on the theme of character motivation in his historic play The Crucible. Abigail is a character in the play who is very manipulative towards others to get what she wants. Abigail does not care about what she has to do to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor, and to be with John Proctor. The girls in the play go along with Abigail to keep the lie of witchcraft going on. Things in the play get out of hand because of all the power Abigail wants. Abigail Williams is in love with John Proctor. The two of them, while Abigail was for John and Elizabeth Proctor. Elizabeth sent Abigail out on the road when she found out about the Affair.
Abigail has had an obsession with John ever since John clutched her back and when he starts sweating like a stallion when ever he is near her. Abigail is falling head over heels for John and does not want Elizabeth in the picture. Abigail is always threatening the girls that she was dancing with in the woods with. She threatens the girls so they would not tell …show more content…

Mary Warren is willing to testify that Abigail and the girls are lying about seeing the devil in the woods. When Mary goes to testify Abigail lies about Mary’s spirit coming to attack her in the court. Mary realize she is being turned on she accuses John of seeing the devil that is when he is arrested for witchcraft. Getting John arrested is not what Abigail wanted, Abigail has gone too far. Abigail wants power and only thinks about saving herself and to be with John Proctor. Abigail lets all the secrets and lies get to her head causing the love of her life to die. Abigail does nothing but run away from her problems. Her wanting Proctor resulted in nothing which caused many innocent people to die. She did not get what she wanted and the only thing she did was create a big

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If The Witch Don’t Fit, You Must Acquit In “The Crucible” 1953 written by Arthur Miller, wrote that hysteria in any place can ruin lives. The year is 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. In Salem at the time it was a modest town brimming with Puritans. In the town of Salem, little secrets, jealousy and massive hysteria spread around the town.

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Abigail’s affair with John Proctor, which had ended seven months previous to the beginning of the play, causes her to be blinded by desire. She uses the witch trials to get revenge on anyone she wants, but her main target is to kill Elizabeth Proctor, John’s wife. Abigail bullies girls in her town to be loyal to her, while she feels no loyalty towards them. One of the girls Abigail bullies is Mary Warren, a servant of the Proctor’s. Mary tries to stand up to Abigail and tell everyone it’s all a lie, however, when Abigail threatens her of witchcraft, she gives up and joins Abigail again.

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Then, Abigail accuses Mary to divert the judge’s attention away from herself. Abigail continues to harass Mary until the other girls join in and help her accuse Mary. Then, Mary sees no other way out, so she points at Proctor screaming, “You’re the Devil’s man!” (110). In all of these situations, the blame passes to several people.

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That Abigail started, in effect, to condemn Elizabeth to death with her touch, then stopped her hand, then went through with it, was quite suddenly the human center of all this turmoil." (page 3; paragraph 3). It wasn't certain that Abigail and John had an affair in real life, but according to Miller's research, Elizabeth, John, and Abigail were real people. The research he did helped form a key plot point out of observations of the history. In the play, one of Abigail's main drives of her actions is to dispose of Elizabeth, for reasons that are suspected to be that she wanted to keep Proctor for herself, vengeance towards Elizabeth for casting her away, or being married to John, or even the hope that John will perish for denying Abigail's second approaches towards him.

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