![]() ![]() ![]() Joseph McCarthy riled up Americans’ hatred of communists. ![]() She riles up the entire village’s hatred of witches, just like her twentieth-century counterpart Sen. As ringleader, she excites the other girls into a frenzy of emotion, which allows them to condemn as witches the people they know and love. It's ironic that the Abigail, who encouraged the witchcraft in the first place, is the one who goes around accusing everybody else. And you know I can do it I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! (I.113-132) 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. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. Our crafty villain convinced Tituba to put a curse on Elizabeth, hoping to get rid of her and take her place at John's side:ĪBIGAIL, pulling her away from the window : I told him everything he knows now, he knows everything we-īETTY: You drank blood, Abby! You didn't tell him that!ĪBIGAIL: Betty, you never say that again! You will never-īETTY: You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!ĪBIGAIL, smashes her across the face : Shut it! Now shut it! (This is extra-horrible when you think about the fact that Abigail is the one who persuaded Tituba to go out and cast the spells.) Ever since Abigail's brief affair with John Proctor, she's been out to get his wife, Elizabeth. When she's on the brink of getting busted for dabbling in witchcraft, she skillfully manages to pin the whole thing on Tituba and several of Salem's other second-class citizens. In Act I, her skills at manipulation are on full display. All these things add up to make her an awesome antagonist. She has an eerie sense of how to manipulate others and gain control over them. This young lady seems to be uniquely gifted at spreading death and destruction wherever she goes. Think Hannibal Lecter.Ībigail is vengeful, selfish, manipulative, and a magnificent liar. Think Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Sometimes literature throws us a bone in the form of a really awesome antagonist. (Click the character infographic to download.) Chillin Like a Villain(ess) ![]()
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