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How Did Abigail Williams Get Revenge In The Crucible

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Growing a deep attraction towards the spotlight the people gave them, the girls use their influence to manipulate people into obtaining their selfish desires, with hundreds of innocent lives being sacraficed during the process. Specifically, their leader Abigail Williams, developed a strategy to take revenge upon Elizabeth Proctor, the woman she used to babysit for. Out of Fear towards Abigail, the girls pretended that the people of Salem were under the devil’s control. No later did false accusations begin to spring out of the girls. An example being Mary Warren, stating “She sent her spirit out“ (pg. 1057). Ignorant of the fact that those words would soon have more impact then she intended. Only when John Proctor forces her to go with him

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