Abigail pretends that she sees the familiar spirit of Mary and it attacks her. One time Abigail has done such manipulations is when Mary testified against Abigail on the orders of John Proctor. The person Abigail most commonly manipulates is Mary Warren, who is likely an easy target due to the fact that she is a naive, lonely girl.
Throughout the book, Abigail shows more proof of being the antagonist as she manipulates the people around her for her own personal gain and other’s misery, verifying the opinion of Miller that human nature is corrupt. Abigail’s need for getting rid of Elizabeth Proctor shows that Abigail is the antagonist of this book as it shows her trying to get rid of someone very dear to the protagonist, John Proctor, and thus, creates a conflict between them. Through these actions, she creates one of the main events of the book, as John Proctor later does anything and everything he can in order to get his wife proved innocent and released from jail. Abigail shows her ruthlessness and lack of empathy through these actions, as she gets the wife of the man she so calls loves in order to try to get together with him, although she was repeatedly rejected by John Proctor previously.
Once Abigail realizes that the charm to kill Goody Proctor by drinking blood didn’t work, she then gets a warrant for … a cruel and murder on Abigail(69,72). It showed her need to cause conflict and get rid of things in her way through any means possible, although the success rate was very low.Įven though it didn’t seem to do much in the whole of the story, it was perhaps the very starting point of the cause of the witch trial hysteria. While Abigail did not succeed in killing Elizabeth Proctor with that method, the fact stands that she did such an act with malicious thoughts in mind. In the argument between Betty and Abigail when Betty finally woke up, it is revealed to the audience that drank blood…to kill John Proctor’s wife(18). The novel, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is the latter type of a story as the protagonist, John Proctor, struggles against Abigail Williams, who opposes him in numerous ways such as ruining his wife, manipulating people and situations, and avoiding all accusations at fault in any way possible, showing her to be the main antagonist of the story all of this is needed for Miller to show the true depravity of human nature, and in return, the so-called good does not triumph over evil.Ībigail reveals traits of antagonism when she tries to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor’s wife, in order to try to keep him for herself, showing the depravity of humans.
The other way is that after struggling throughout his or her life, the protagonist, in the end, can not stop the antagonist and dies or otherwise becomes unable to oppose the antagonist. “John Proctor Struggles against Abigail Williams in the Crucible”
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