How Does Abigail Williams Show Identity In The Crucible

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Being able to cook up a character let me add my own ingredients and incorporate my feelings toward the character from the novel. From The Crucible there are a lot of characters that have different traits one could write about because all of them have their own personality and identity. The first character that comes into my mind was Abigail Williams, at first look she is a beautiful orphan taken in by her uncle but once you read more you find out that she does not care about how others are being treated. I am making a lemon tart to show how I feel Abigail Williams would be as a food and adding my own ingredients. Therefore, I added dishonesty, greed, beauty, and accusations. Even in the beginning of the novel we find out that Abigail has “an endless capacity for dissembling” (8-9). This means that we discover that Abigail can fake her feelings well so we should not completely trust her throughout the novel. Although the lemon tart might look delicious and savory with the sugary pastry and the fragrant lemon filling, it is sour and tart at the same time. Abigail might look sugary on the outside but on the inside she’s sour and does not have a lot of feelings towards others. The lemon tart sometimes …show more content…

1 ½ cups of beauty lets the pastry draw people in and want to have a bite but the sour lemon, greed and dishonesty let one know that it’s not as good as it looks. You have to whisk sugar, dishonesty, accusations, and flour and whisk until smooth so it all blends together nicely and you can’t tell that the dishonesty and accusations are there until further into the tart. As well as Abigail, John Proctor did not know that she would turn against his wife and want him all to herself. The two hours it takes to make this dessert is metaphorically the same time it takes the village and John Proctor to realize that Abigail Williams is accusing