“Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. And mark tis. 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 os some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” This was quote was said by Abigail Williams, a seventeen year old girl from The Crucible, while she was trying to convince her friends to agree with this fallacious story. She was trying to get the girls to agree with her to protect herself and threatened the girls to get her point across. Abigail William and I have a few personality traits in common in that we are very persuasive individuals, observant to our surroundings, and leaders. …show more content…
In Act II of The Crucible, Abigail persuaded her friends to go along with faulty accusations and lies that she made up. Her friends and her accused innocent people of witchcraft and Abigail wanted all of them to agree on the same story, which is why she used fear as a method of persuading them to agree with her. One time I persuaded my brother to help me do my chores. I told my brother Owen, that if he did the dishwasher and vacuumed the floor that I wouldn't tell on him for doing poorly in his English class, to which he eagerly complied. Another time I was persuasive was when I needed money to go out with my friends. I persuaded my dad to give me twenty dollars because I told him that I would pay him back when I got the money and he agreed. Abigail and I are both persuasive in many of our own