The Crucible: The Evilness And Selfishness Of Abigail Williams

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Term Paper Title	The Crucible: The Evilness And Selfishness Of Abigail Williams
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The Crucible: The Evilness and Selfishness of Abigail Williams

The Crucible: The Evilness and Selfishness of Abigail Williams

        In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, there is one character who, because of
her selfish and evil ways, causes the destruction of many people in the town of
Salem. This character is Abigail Williams. In the play, jealousy, and self-
interest are the two characteristics that are seen constantly throughout the
play. These characteristics pertain particularly to Abigail, and give a graphic
description of her life, and how she deals with things in it. Throughout the
play she gets worse and worse each time something major happens.
      After her affair and failure with voodoo, she was overcome by love and
jealousy, and she was willing to do anything to get John back to her own self.
Since she was overcome, she had no concern with morals, and starts to sin
heavily by starting the witch trials, which causes the deaths of many people in
the town. Abigail doesn't want anyone to find out that she was in the forest so
she harshly threatens Betty Paris and Mary Warren not to say anything. “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 of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy
reckoning that will shudder you... And you know I can do it... I can make you
wish you had never seen the sun go down.”
      She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals and
her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings
of love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these
things she could no longer control herself, and her whole reason for living
became to get back John. This shows that when a person is given something, which
they enjoy, and even love, and they are denied it, they feel distraught and they
will many times do almost anything to get it back.
     She was very desperate and she felt willing to do anything to get back
John for herself. She had been brought up to believe that magic worked, so she
turned to Tituba and her voodoo. Abigail begged her for her help in that matter,
This is shown when Tituba says, “You beg me to conjure! She beg me to make
charm-” Abigail was so desperate to get back John that she even drank chicken's
blood to get him back. She drank this blood charm so Elizabeth would die.
Abigail's progression of evilness and her looking for help from witchcraft shows
that love and jealousy in large q...

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