Abigail

"Abigail Williams, seventeen, enters—a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling. Now she is all worry and apprehension and propriety." (Miller 34).
-Arthur Miller

"Betty? She goes to Betty. Now, Betty, dear, wake up now. It’s Abigail. She sits Betty up and furiously shakes her. I’ll beat you, Betty! Betty whimpers. My, you seem improving. I talked to your papa and I told him everything. So there’s nothing to-" (Miller 40). -Abigail Williams

In this scene, Abigail tries to wake Betty up after her uncle leaves the room and furiously shakes her, a surprisingly violent action since she was just sugar coating a story to her uncle. Abigail is indeed dissembling as Miller describes her for she is now changing her attitude after her Parris leaves.

"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 you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! She goes to Betty and roughly sits her up. Now, you-sit up and stop this!" (Miller 41).

In this scene, Abigail is threatening Betty and Mary Warren that they are to not speak a word about Abigail's behavior or accuse her or Betty of witchcraft. Miller describes Abigail as worried and dissembling and those traits are showed here as Abigail threatens and deceives her uncle.

Abigail has similar traits to Miley Cyrus because they are both described as beautiful and dissembling. Miley was Hannah Montana for awhile and all of a sudden, she deceived everyone and decided to show her "true" colors. Her big shock surprised everyone and just like Abigail, Miley is manipulative and has young girls following her as a role model which could be a bad thing.