Abigail Williams Character Analysis

Would You Like to Know About the Responsible Character in the play the "Crucible?"

There might be many responsible characters in this pay, but Abigail Williams is the most responsible for many bad things that occur in this play written by Arthur Miller. Abigail Williams, a main character in the "Crucible" is to blame for the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. She is not a nice woman. She doesn't care about the people she hurts. She causes many people pain. She makes many people suffer. Abigail Williams is the most responsible for many problems because she lies, she manipulates, and accuses innocent people for witchcraft.

Abigail is a liar because

For example, she manipulates the girls by lying about what they were doing in the forest. Abigail really uses manipulation to intimidate these girls into following her plan of not saying the truth. Abigail bullies these girls. She verbally and physically attacks them. Abigail manipulates them by saying "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 bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it" (175). It means that Abigail can do really bad things to these girls. She can smack them or even kill them. Abigail is so mean, and she is willing to do anything to the girls because she doesn't want to get caught of what she does. Abigail makes the girls to get scared, and they don't tell anything. She is very intelligent to manipulate

She wants to accuse all the hypocrites of being witches so there would be no more of them in Salem. An example is when she gets caught doing witchcraft by her uncle and starts to blame people, so she can look innocent. She does this just to protect herself. Also, she accuses Tituba of being a witch, and that Tituba forced her to drink blood. Abigail says, "She made me drink blood; she made me do it." (187) Abigail accuses many other people of doing witchcraft that causes them to die. These people are hanged. She is really good at accusing people. She doesn't care if they are innocent or