Abigail williams the crucible bio poem

Abigail Williams Character Analysis

Miller says that the “structure” of The Crucible“centres on John, Elizabeth, and Abigail.” Reverend Parris’s niece Abigail has been dismissed from service by Elizabeth Proctor after she found out the illicit affair between Abigail and her husband seven months ago.

Since then Abigail has been living with Parris. But she still lusts for Proctor and, by involving his wife in the rampant rumored practices of witchcraft in Salem and getting her hanged, she plots to become Proctor’s wife.

Abigail williams the crucible bio poem

She thus orchestrates the behaviour of the girls who follow her blindly in raising the bogey of witchcraft and by involving several innocent citizens in the witch hunt. Her motivation is a blend of private vengeance and desire.

She proves that people’s terror could be manipulated to meet her own selfish ends.

Abigail Williams, Reverend Parris’s seventeen-year-old niece and antagonist of the play, is a “strikingly beautiful g