Abigale Williams

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Abigail Williams is a seventeen-year-old girl who, between the ages of 5 and 6, saw her parents brutally murdered. From that day on she has been living with her Uncle Rev. Parris, her cousin, Betty Parris, and their nanny Tituba. She is in love with John Proctor, an older man who is happily married with three kids. Abigail is very persistent in trying to break up the Proctor’s marriage. She will do whatever it takes to attain what she wants. An extremely bossy girl, she has no tolerance for people who don’t obey her commands. Her belief is that people who don’t obey her should be punished. If there is a task at hand she is usually the one in charge because people are afraid of her. She is also very opinionated; if she has an opinion about you, you will know.
Abigail is first seen to be breaking the rules by dancing in the woods and casting spell and charms on the local people of Salem. Later on, once her uncle finds them, and she admits to dancing but says nothing else. My First impression of Abigail is that she seemed like a normal teenager. Dancing is normal and wanting to have a good name is absolutely normal. It is quickly shown that Abigail is a girl who receives what she wants no matter how much it will cost the people around her. In my opinion knowing what you want is a good thing but hurting people in the process is not a good thing.

Abigail runs into numerous of problems in the play starting with her uncle finding her dancing in the woods, which at this time, is against the law. For this, she quickly is accused of also practicing witch craft. Abigail try to convince her uncle that all she did is dance by saying, “Uncle, we did dance; let you tell them I confessed it and I’ll be whipped if I must be. But they’re speaking of which craft. Betty is not witched.” She is just trying to stay out of as much trouble as she can because the punishment for dancing and witchery is whipping and hanging which Abigail is try...