Abigail Williams Sympathy

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You will never truly apprehend something until it actually happens to you. Everyone has a battle to fight that not a soul has knowledge of. However, you can choose to learn from it or be just like the enemies you’re trying to fight off. Most people who read The Crucible would have loathed feelings towards Abigail Williams, but for I only have sympathy for her. In the play they briefly mention Abigail’s past, but just enough to comprehend the way she is. For Example, “I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ heads on the pillow next to mine” (Miller, 1137), by this statement you can see not only did she grow up without both her parents she saw them get brutally murdered. When her parents departed from the life she had no one, even her uncle was …show more content…
So then she did the only think she knew how to do which was to save herself. As the play goes on I feel there were two reasons she kept on with her act: 1. she would be in more trouble than she was in the beginning 2. she enjoys the attention she gets from the town. “Abigail were stabbed tonight; a needle were found stuck into her belly--” (Miller, 1137). She had the whole town in the palms of her hands everyone listens to what she had to say. The effects of Abigail not having her parents and her uncle only caring about himself caused her to be poor, so she cannot marry a rich man. Thus she tries to find love in wrong places, for example, when Elizabeth became ill Abigail started working for the Proctors’, she then had an affair with John. When Elizabeth became aware of this she put Abigail out. This caused her to grow anger and animus towards Elizabeth, she thought John truly loved her. “… I saw your face when she put me out, and you loved me then and you do now!” (Miller,1139). She was nothing but a teen girl who knew nothing of true love she was lost, she just wanted someone to love her. Abigail Williams is not a ruthless person she just had a tough life growing up. If you just step in her shoe for just a moment you will realize the pain and hurt she went through. Abigail is a victim of her society, since of her

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