Is Abigail Williams a Victim or Villain? We have been studying the text The Crucible by Author Miller and I am going to study in detail weather Abigail Williams is a victim, or truly the villain. Abby is the villain and some may put it down to some of the "reddish work" she has seen but is it? In Act One Abigail is willing to lie to everyone to save her own, Abby is certain "[they] danced" and nothing else, even though we know that is not all they did. Abby threatens the girls, forcing them to tell the story according to the way which incriminates her the least.
Because of her hate towards Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, Abigail creates demented tales, directed at abolishing the “problem.” Though Abigail’s wild canards seem quite obtuse in civilization today, at the time her acts fell to justification. Furthermore, because of Abigail’s childlike disposition in wiggling her way out of punishment as well as her lust and love for John Proctor, she found deceiving the people of Salem easy, seeing as the threat of witchcraft and demons loomed dangerously in the hearts and minds of all who lived there. Though the
Their relationship went from employee to amorous love affair to hatred and revenge. Abigail tried proving that their love was genuine but all John did was disagreeing with her. Abigail spoke, “I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near” (1109). To respond to what Abigail had stated John said, “Abby I may think of you softly from time to time, but I will cut off my hand before I reach for you again” (1109). John’s emotions for Abigail gradually changed because he realized what he was doing was wrong and he knew it was guilt-ridden.
The old woman is afraid to go out because she feels threatened, as she finds ‘excreta’ in her letterbox and broken windows in her house. Powell tries to include the scandalous behaviour in his speech to arise sympathy from the audience and to persuade them to support his view. However, Powell uses positive adjectives, such as “charming”, “wide-grinning” to describe the immigrated children, creating a friendly image. Yet, the word Powell uses to describe the children is “piccaninnies”, such condescending word is setting them apart, degrading the image of immigrants. In addition, the fact that the only English word the children know is “racialist”, Powell establishes a sense of irony because the children are portrayed as young, amicable, yet the only word and idea they know is
She takes the patients freedom away, and makes their stay at the hospital even worse. She does not let the men get a say in what they want, if they want something they get it after a long time, or they just do not get it at all. She knows the weak spots for all the patients, and just where to peck at them. The patients try to please her during the group meetings by telling her their darkest secrets, and then they feel deeply ashamed for how she made them act, even though they have done nothing. She maintains her power by the use of shame and guilt against the patients, making them feel horrible.
Mean Girls is sending a message to say take responsibility for your before it gets worse. In Mean Girls Cady acts like an innocent bystander and doesn’t own up to anything she has done. When she keeps ditching her real friends Janice and Damian and then denies doing it. When Cady was at Regina’s house and writing stuff in the burn book and talking about people behind their backs and says “ I know it may seem like I’ve become a bitch, but that’s only because I was acting like a bitch” She was in denial of doing anything wrong and she was just acting. In the office after the ‘burn book’ was spread across the school Cady denied she had taken any part in it, But after all the denying and lying everyone saw her for the backstabber she is and Janice saw us way before everyone.
Her statement was constantly attacked by Danforth and Parris, the stubborn, prideful rat. Like a child trying to elude reprimanding, he fabricated holes in every attempt we made to reason with Judge Danforth. Then Abigail began to shiver and shriek, turning the blame of witchcraft on Mary. To see that Abigail and her friends' trickery was actually persuading the judge enraged me so much that I confessed to my act of adultery with her, in hopes of ruining her credibility. I was blind in my fury, grabbing the girl by the hair, wondering what I had seen in her.
Sadly this wasn’t to be the worst of it. Although Jayne didn’t want to see her mother being treated so badly she decided to film one more time. What she found this time was horrific and disgusting. A male carer named Jonathon Aquino pulled Mariah up the bed and repeatedly slapped her in the face. Jayne was horrified and rightly so.
It would be in his own interest to stop here but he doesn't. This makes me feel complete respect for him as he is motivated by the greater good and so bravely continues. In the climatic Act 3.3 the girls are called into the courtroom and questioned. They continue to deny that the whole witch-hunt fiasco was pretence. When Abigail cries for heaven, Proctor is infruriated and grabs her by the hair: " Whore!
There are running themes throughout the movie which expose Salem’s fundamental weaknesses, the first being intolerance. This meant that there was no room for deviating from social norms; subsequently these suppressed girls felt they needed to release their frustration through dancing wildly in the woods. The first scene was quite shocking, it could be perceived as an outburst. However, the Puritans could not simply brush this aside as an outburst or as child’s play because that would reflect badly upon their parenting methods and their society as a whole. At one point, Governor Danforth proclaims, "But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between.