Abigail Williams: The Victim Upon the entrance of Abigail Williams one might think she appears as a behaved, but occasionally deceptive child, on the edge of maturity. One might be right, but there be more than what meets the eye. Is Abigail a victim or the culprit? It is evident that Abigail Williams is a victim of Salem due to her emotional scars from her past, the strict, overwhelming environment of the Puritan community, and the symptoms of insanity and power hunger she displayed. It is shown in the text that there are many underlying factors that created her to be a victim. If her past was the be examined it happened that there was a night when her parents were murdered by Indians in the bed beside her. It is obvious that this instance would create a traumatic experience that have permanent consequences, especially in the case of Abigail being a lady, to her emotions. This moment of her being abandoned in a horrendous tragedy could quite possibly have led her to a damaged and eventually destroyed …show more content…
Even the children of the Parris house are treated as young adults due to Reverend Parris’ parental apathy. As Abigail is forced, due to her circumstances, to live under his roof she must endure the lack of necessities she had needed after so much adversity in her life. The forcing the live in a Reverend of a Puritan church in a Puritan community may have been something that was too forceful for her to handle. The daily habits of the members of the community created such a dull life that in her perception was most likely overwhelming with emptiness and forced belief that she did not tolerate. Her emotional state along with the environment she lived in led to symptoms of insanity along with an insatiable hunger for