Abigail Williams

== Archetype:==

Miller's Commentary:
Miller first introduces Abigail by telling the reader that she is "a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling". Miller uses Abigail as the Helen of Troy type of character, meaning she can use her beauty to destroy, such as having an affair with John Proctor.

Motivation: (Including Shifts):
Her motives are set on being with Proctor and will betray relationships in order to dispose of the people she hates to get her way. She has no morals and is the character that will do anything to get her way.

Characteristic Adjectives:
==Liar, Deciever, Manipulative, Tramp, Selfish, Vengeful ==

Quotes by Abigail
"Oh, John, the world's so full of hypocrites!"(140)

"And God gave me the strength to call them liars, and God made men to listen ot me, and by God I will scrub the world clean for the love of Him!"(141)

"Oh, how hard it is when pretense falls! But it falls, it falls!"(143).

"And God gave me the strength to call them liars, and God made men to listen ot me, and by God I will scrub the world clean for the love of Him!"(141)

"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 I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you." (Act I)

"She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold, sniveling woman, and you bend to her!" (Act I).

"They want slaves, not such as I. Let them send to Barbados for that. I will not black my face for any of them! Do you begrudge my bed, uncle?" (Act 1)

"My name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name is soiled! Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar! (Act 1)

"I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I come near! Or did I dream that? It's she put me out, you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your face when she put me out, and you loved me then and you do now!" (Act 1)

"She makes me drink blood!" (Act 1)

"She comes to me while I sleep; she's always making me dream corruptions!" (Act 1)

"I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand." (Act 1)

"What look do you give me? I'll not have such looks!" (Act 3)