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(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. В A L.A.(Click the character infographic to download.) Chillin Like a Villain(ess) Most moving is Stacy Keach as John Proctor, who fights to salvage some good from the trials that destroy Salem.'

The young girls playing at witchcraft shriek in irregular counterpoint to the quiet, terrifying judgments rendered by Reverend Harris (Michael York), and doubt is ever more audible in the voice of Reverend Hale (Richard Dreyfuss). The star-studded cast ratchets the tension to a disturbing level as the town disintegrates. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic - withВ ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor - The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950вЂ™s.Īudiofile Magazine review: 'At once an allegory of the 1950s' anti-communist witch hunts and a spotlight on seventeenth-century witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, this play shows how ignorance and good intentions can interweave to destroy lives. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach stars in Arthur MillerвЂ™s classic The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama that remains required reading in most high school and college English courses.

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