What is Abigail Williams reputation in the community?

Answer 1

Abigail William's reputation in the Puritan community was not very good, assuming, of course, that we are discussing Abigail Williams from the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. She is known to be a manipulative, morally questionable girl who laughs during church and was fired from her job at the Proctor home. She is also suspected of having committed adultery with John Proctor, a bit of gossip that circles around town, and this is discovered later in the play to be true. Abigail says to her uncle Reverend Parris that "There be no blush about my name," when questioned about it, but from what we learn in the surrounding material this is not true and she is lying.

Very little is known of the actual Abigail Williams, other than she was an eleven year old girl who lived in Salem, Massachusetts. She tragically went mad for a time and caused the witchcraft conspiracy. Her alleged relationship with John Proctor did not actually happen (as far as we know), and the general society certainly hopes that it did not because the real John Proctor was sixty years old, making him forty-nine years older than the real Abigail Williams.