Abigail To Blame In The Crucible

In the crucible, Abigail, who is the niece of Reverend Parris, is described as smart, a good liar, and vindictive. Throughout the play, Abigail always tried finding a way to cover up what she has done to avoid getting in trouble. Like practicing witchcraft with a bunch of other girls in the forest. During the play, the other girls started to speak up about what really happened, knowing Abigail she threatened them by saying, “Let either of you breath a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come you in the black of some trouble and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you, and you know I will” (Miller, Act 1). Abigail is the type of person if she says something she means it. She doesn’t mess around. Abigail can get away with just about everything if she lies her way through everything. She is known as the girl that

John proctor is hesitant to expose Abigail’s lies because he fears and knows she will accuse him of adultery. Back then, it was a crime to commit such acts. “PROCTOR: You will not judge me more, Elizabeth. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore.”(Miller 58). In this example, Elizabeth tries to question him, and John Proctor feeling ashamed and guilty attacks her back, trying to change the subject. The old psychology trick, to look back on herself, and not think about John’s Proctors positon. When asked what are all the commandments he stutters and forgets all but one, which was the adultery. Which is ironic, since he committed it and having reason

People are very impressionable, especially children. Abigail used destructive power to cause chaos in Salem. In the Crucible she is viewed as strong-willed and independent. She manipulated and used people against each other as a stepping stone to hysteria.

When something goes wrong it’s not just easy to point the blame at someone other than yourself in fact it’s common. Most people don’t want to take responsibility for their actions especially when they hurt others they . In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, it would seem that the easiest solution is just to blame Abigail for the outcome of the play. However, the blame actually should be on all the people who participated in the Salem witch trials. Many people in the play directly and indirectly fueled the trials, not just Abigail alone.

Abigail is the character that no ones wants to be in a story. She is most of the responsibility for the girls going with Tituba to the woods. Then after Paris finds them, she tries to fake her behavior because if she doesn’t it will show her affair with Proctor if she confesses to casting a spell on Elizabeth Proctor. Betty calls Abigail out by saying “you did it, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Procter’s wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor! (Miller, 19). Abigail lies first to hide her affair but then she starts lying to prevent being accused of witchcraft. To keep all the attention off of herself she starts accusing other people of witchcraft. Abigail is heartless because she thinks nothing of just accusing people of witchcraft which will send them to their death. Abigail was a very deceiving when she spoke to anyone about anything throughout the story. Abigail was lying at the court case they had durning the Salem Witch trials, she was trying to get everyone to believe that Mary’s Warren was a bird coming to get her, she says, “But God made my face; you cannot want to tear my face. Envy is a deadly sin, Mary” (Miller 106). Abigail was lying that who court case so she didn’t get in trouble, she wanted to save herself even if it meant that others were going to die.

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller , we are presented with the question if there was a real justification in trials. Many would agree there was no justice whatsoever in the witch trials , all that happened in the Salem witch trials was a group of Girls that claim were possessed by the devil and accused women in the village of witchcraft because they were caught by Rev. Parris, they were Afraid of what could happen to them so they accused women of low-lives to accuse knowing that they wouldn't be believed. I'd say that the mastermind behind all of this is Abigail. Who I think is doing all of this to get Proctor all to herself and take Elizabeth proctor out of John's life, she is also mad that Elizabeth dismissed her from her job , so she will

One reason why Abigail is responsible for the death of innocent Salemites is because she makes up lies and stories about the people involved in the witchcraft. “Sometimes I wake and find myself standing in the open doorway and not a stich on my body. I always hear her laughing in my sleep. I hear her singing her Barbados songs and tempting me with-” (Miller, 156). In this quote Abigail is talking about Tituba, the slave of Mr. and Mrs. Proctor, to Mr. Danforth. She made up a story about Tituba putting her under a spell and doing things to her at night. Abigail is also the first person to accuse someone of

Abigail is merely a child, afraid of being punished for wrongdoing as any child is. In Puritan society, God is held as the highest authority and being a witch is one of the worst crimes against God. Having committed such a high crime, Abigail acts as a kid and blames others for the offense. Any adolescent would be beyond scared at the thought of the inevitable punishment: “Witchery’s a hangin’ error…” (Miller 837). Abigail surely is frightened, and that fright in her influences her decision to blame those around her. Abigail’s fear is what motivates her to blame others, get all the girls to join in on her scheme, and the fear eventually leads to all the horrible events in The

I believe the most accused character is Abigail and she is most responsible for the events in Salem in 1962. Abigail goes into the the woods with the other girls and to do spells. She was the one who wanted Elizabeth Proctor dead so she did a spell so she could have John Proctor back. Abigail and the other witches knew they would get in trouble so Betty pretended to be in coma so she would not get in trouble after her dad saw her in the woods. Abigail is really mean she wants everything to go her way, it doesn’t matter who she hurts. Throughout the story she lies a lot, accuses other people and causes them pain. Abigail even accused Elizabeth for witchcraft first she tries to kill her and then blame her for witchcraft she stabbed herself also

Lust, mendacity, and jealousy are three things that can change how a person feels and acts. Sometimes we can't help it and it causes lots of problems. These problems then accumulate and cause something we did not intend to happen and this is something that happen in the town of salem. Abigail had these 3 characteristics which made her do things and blame witchcraft on many people causing several deaths.

In the book, "The Crucible," Abigail Williams, a seventeen year old who is caught taking part in witchery along with several other girls, begins claiming that she has seen many people with the Devil. As a result, the Salem witch trials take place and the lives of many people are taken. While one might say that Abigail was influenced to lie because of the pressure of society or outside forces, she had the choice in her hands to save the lives of many people, but instead she accused as many as she could. She did not care how many lives she took, as long as Elizabeth, the wife of John Proctor, who she desired to have, was killed. Taking this into consideration, Abigail was deliberate in her actions and therefore cannot be excused for her doings.

In The Crucible, Abigail could act as a source of blame for many of the events that had occurred. However, there are multiple factors that might sway one’s opinion in the opposite direction. The society she was within was corrupt as it was. She couldn’t help the environment that she was raised in. Poor decisions had led her into some tough situations that would make getting out of very difficult.

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Abigail is most to blame for the Salem Witch Trials. Abigail is a seventeen year old girl in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. She lives with Reverend Parris, her uncle, because her parents were killed by Indians when she was younger. Miller demonstrated that it was Abigail’s flaws- dishonesty, jealousy, and lust – that led her to be most responsible for the witch hunt in Salem.

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller in 1953, was based upon McCarthyism in the United States. During the late 1600’s, the Salem witch trials took place in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Many innocent people during this time lost their good name, family and friends, and lastly, some lost their very lives. One girl is responsible for it all.

In The Crucible Abigail protects her reputation by blaming others when she is about to get caught for witchcraft. Abigail states, “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