Abigail Williams: Impact on Salem Witch Trials
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Abigail Williams, the silent devil of Salem who destroyed the lives of many. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play based on the actual events that, in 1692, led to the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. Abigail Williams was a main source for the cause of the Salem witch trials for many reasons such as, her false accusations, her thirst for power, and she had a good reputation which made the town believe her every word.
Abigail Williams falsely accusations was one of the main causes of the Witch Trials in the Crucible. “HALE: Why can she not wake? Are you silencing this child? “HALE: Why can she not wake? Are you silencing this child? TITUBA: I love me Betty! HALE: You have sent your spirit out upon this child, have you not? Are you gathering souls for the Devil? ABIGAIL: She sends her spirit on me in church; she makes me laugh at prayer! PARRIS: She have often laughed at prayer! ABIGAIL: She comes to me every night to go and drink blood! TITUBA: You beg me to conjure! She beg me make charm-ABIGAIL: Don't lie! To Hale: She comes to me while I sleep; she's always making me dream corruptions! TITUBA: Why you say that, Abby? ABIGAIL: Sometimes I wake and find myself standing in the open doorway and not a stitch on my body! I always hear her laughing in my sleep. I hear her singing her Barbados songs and tempting me with-TITUBA: Mister Reverend, I never-HALE, resolved now: Tituba, I want you to wake this child. TITUBA: I have no power on this child, sir. HALE: You most certainly do, and you will free her from it now! When did you compact with the Devil? TITUBA: I don't compact with no Devil!” Act 1 pg 156From the previous quote, Abigail is falsely accusing Tituba of witchcraft to keep Tituba from revealing Abigail’s witchcraft. In act 2 Elizabeth Proctor is falsely accused of witchcraft because her husband said
Abigail Williams, the silent devil of Salem who destroyed the lives of many. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play based on the actual events that, in 1692, led to the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. Abigail Williams was a main source for the cause of the Salem witch trials for many reasons such as, her false accusations, her thirst for power, and she had a good reputation which made the town believe her every word.
Abigail Williams falsely accusations was one of the main causes of the Witch Trials in the Crucible. “HALE: Why can she not wake? Are you silencing this child? “HALE: Why can she not wake? Are you silencing this child? TITUBA: I love me Betty! HALE: You have sent your spirit out upon this child, have you not? Are you gathering souls for the Devil? ABIGAIL: She sends her spirit on me in church; she makes me laugh at prayer! PARRIS: She have often laughed at prayer! ABIGAIL: She comes to me every night to go and drink blood! TITUBA: You beg me to conjure! She beg me make charm-ABIGAIL: Don't lie! To Hale: She comes to me while I sleep; she's always making me dream corruptions! TITUBA: Why you say that, Abby? ABIGAIL: Sometimes I wake and find myself standing in the open doorway and not a stitch on my body! I always hear her laughing in my sleep. I hear her singing her Barbados songs and tempting me with-TITUBA: Mister Reverend, I never-HALE, resolved now: Tituba, I want you to wake this child. TITUBA: I have no power on this child, sir. HALE: You most certainly do, and you will free her from it now! When did you compact with the Devil? TITUBA: I don't compact with no Devil!” Act 1 pg 156From the previous quote, Abigail is falsely accusing Tituba of witchcraft to keep Tituba from revealing Abigail’s witchcraft. In act 2 Elizabeth Proctor is falsely accused of witchcraft because her husband said