The Crucible (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Miller
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1692
- Setting: Salem, Massachusetts
- Genres: Drama, Allegory, History play
- Subjects: Justice, Folkloric or magical people, Religion, New England, Trials, Seventeenth century, Ethics, Witches or witchcraft, Puritans or Puritanism, Libel or slander
- Locales: Salem, MA
Characters Discussed
Abigail Williams, a strikingly beautiful seventeen-year-old. She is willful and a flirt. Her rebellion against society is expressed in her wayward behavior, which she transforms into a witch scare by going into fits and stimulating and coercing her girlfriends to do likewise. Abigail senses that the community of Salem, Massachusetts, is uneasy, that it suffers from societal tensions, and that it is prepared to believe that its internal divisions are the result of witchcraft. Abigail and her minions charge many of the most prominent people in Salem with...
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