Friday, April 10, 2015
The Crucible
In The Crucible Abigail is the antagonist. She is all about getting John Proctor to herself no matter who she hurts in the end. She tells lies and manipulates her friends along with the town. Because of her love for John and not wanting him with his wife she plays dirty and gets nineteen innocent people killed. John Proctor decided he needed to end the affair because of the guilt and loyalty he was feeling towards his wife. Well that didn't sound good for Abigail so she decided to take matters into her own hand and accussed his wife of witch craft to get rid of her. She is a leader and knows she can gets what's she wants well playing miss innocent. She grew up an orphan so she didn't have much and when she got attention from John that was like a gift from God to her because she is just this low rung on the social latter and John is like God in the womens eyes, so for him to be married and want to have Abigail it made her feel great and that is why she did what she did because she didn't want to go back to that low life girl.
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Do you think Abigail got a sense of power through what she did to people? Maybe she felt control over John and that was all she really wanted. I like many things that you pointed out in your post. Abigail was certainly an antagonist and so much more. She knew how to get what she wanted and accused witchcraft to anyone that go in her way.
ReplyDeleteYou mentioned that Abigail is a leader, and I think my definition of a leader varies from yours. I think a leader knows what the right decision is most of the time. Of course, nobody is perfect. This decision was something large, and common sense and proper rationalization would have pointed Abigail in the right direction, saving those innocent people. I’m not arguing that a leader cannot mess up or make the wrong decisions. I just think that a leader would be a bit smarter about the decisions they are making, especially if they are large ones.
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