Abigail Williams or Abby is a seventeen year old girl, a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling. She's manipulative coercive by threats Abigail was raised as an orphan after her parents were killed by Natives Abigail's motivation to do what she did was her jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor, a hunger for power, and a lust for John Proctor who she had an affair with but John rejected her so Abigail tried to ruin Elizabeth with witchcraft accusations