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Abigail Williams
‘an endless capacity for dissembling
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A soft word’ ‘Winningly she
comes a little closer’
Seduction, responsible for the downfall
‘I have a sense for heat, John
...

Abigail represents a Devil-like temptation
‘Concentrated desire’
‘Whatever sin it is, you love me yet!’ He doesn’t deny

‘I look for the John Proctor that took me from my sleep
and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what
pretence Salem was, I never knew what lying lessons I
was taught by all these Christian women and their
covenanted men!’
She was freed from the oppression by John – taken from
sleep
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Something more valuable in a
relationship with her – teaching
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Marriage is also
oppression to her: ‘covenanted’

‘Come in’
‘I think you’d best go down and deny it’
‘Smashes her across the face’
Violent, lack of empathy for young girl, childhood
Contrast to behaviour with John
‘She is blackening my name in the village’
Has had to stand the rumours for too long
Others accusing her of adultery; now she can accuse them
of witchcraft; vindictive
She’s a girl, who would have to be ‘thankful for being
permitted to walk straight, eyes slightly lowered, arms at
the sides’
‘Sometimes I wake and find myself [with] not a stitch on
my body!’

‘I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and
I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you’
Uses intimidation as a device, allegorical

‘A wild thing’ ‘feverishly looking into his eyes’

‘Sweated like a stallion’

‘I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as
though I’d find you comin’ through some door
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She’s manipulating religion to
her advantage, though unclear whether she believes in it:
‘as though’

‘Where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for
Israel’
Biblical, Diabolical control over situation
Due to fear she’s instilled – McCarthyism
Tool for convictions
‘There is a promise made in any bed’, a motive which
drives the play

‘two inches in the flesh of her belly’
Poppet

‘Staring down at her remorselessly’
Uses Mary’ Warren’s fear which leads to Proctor’s
conviction

‘Yellow bird’
Uses hysteria
‘Her wings are spreading!’ Builds tension and Mary
Warren’s fear
‘In open threat’ Unlike Danforth, she’s not bound by
rules

Danforth ‘weakening’
Sends 19 to hang, including her ex-lover Proctor and
convicts her friend Tituba out of self-preservation

Flees with Parris’ money so she can survive, making him
‘sob’

Fate as a Boston prostitute



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