How Does Abigail Protect Themselves In The Crucible

Greed makes people dishonest, because Abigail tell the lie, Parris lies to the court, and Danforth lies to himself, these characters lie to others and lie to themselves. First, Abigail lies that she is able to see Tituba’s spirit and she is witched by Tituba. To illustrate, in parris’s home, when Hale asks Tituba if she sends her spirit out Abigail immediately answers Hale, “ [Tituba] sends her spirit on me in church, she makes me laugh at prayer!” (Miller 44). Clearly, Abigail lies to everybody, Abigail’s greed for the love of John Proctor , a married man with 3 children, let her be willing to drink blood to course John’s wife, Elizabeth. When the devil is found, Abigail has to pretend that she is witched by Tituba and Tituba is a witchcraft. Abigail is responsible for starting the whole mess, she

An unknown speaker once said, “A real man will be honest no matter how painful the truth is. A coward hides behind his lies and deceit.” This quote relates to characters in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, such as John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, and Giles Corey. Each person took action and stood up for what was right. Faced with tough decisions, many characters throughout the play are severely tested by others in their surroundings because of the ways they lie, the ways they make false accusations, and the ways that they ultimately die for a cause.

In the story “The Crucible” Abigail and her cousin are accused of being witches. IN act one it states “We did dance, uncle, and when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly, Betty was frightened and then she fainted. And there’s the whole of it” (Abigail Page 1). They got caught dancing and doing things they were forbidden to do. Since that day the entire town thinks of then as witches. That being said Abigail tries to make things right. Additionally in act one Abigail states “let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word about a thing or I will came to you in the black of some terrible night” (Page 19). From there forward Abigail started to accuse Tituba. Tituba then confessed “He say Mr. Parris must be killed! And No! I don’t hate that man. I don’t want to kill that man”. But he says, “You work for me, Tituba, and I make you free!”(Page 44).This confession and accession give’s Abigail and Betty a chance to act Innocent and accuse random people as well.

Abigail lied about many things; she lied to her uncle about what the girls were actually doing in the woods, how she ended up with a needle in her stomach, that Mary Warren had sent her spirit out to get her in the court… There seems to be lie after lie spilling from her mouth and with each comes a consequence. When she lied to Rev. Parris about what the girls were really doing in the woods which, yes, was dancing at one point but she herself was practicing witchcraft- drinking a potion to kill off Elizabeth Proctor- Tituba ended up being accused and beaten until she confessed to false charges- which also led into another string of accusations. She claimed that Goody Proctor’s spectra stabbed her in the belly with a needle, when we all know she was just framing Mrs. Proctor; and she also lied

Punishments are insufficient ways to get the truth out of anyone, because they will lie just to evade the punishment, which is exactly what Abigail does. Abigail and her friends were in the woods with Tituba dancing when all of a sudden they get caught, so Abigail, knowing of the punishment, blames Tituba, because “she sends her spirit on [her]” (Act 1). Tituba is taken out of her house, then whipped because the court wants to hear Tituba confess, even though it isn't true. Miller’s audience immediately starts accusing Abigail, but she is not at fault, Tituba is. Tituba, being the adult, had no business teaching the girls love potions, and if Tituba never taught them, then the girls would have never been the situation to make up a story. Even though Abigail “drank

From the beginning of the story, Abigail is lying to the whole village of what happened that night in the woods. In attempt to save herself from punishment, Abigail throws Tituba under the bus and tells people that Tituba has drank blood and made Betty, as well

("She sends her soul out on me in chapel; she influences me to snicker at prater!" "She comes to me consistently to go and drink blood!") Tituba was a slave meaning she has a lower status as is a simple focus for she is from Barbados and knows about dark enchantment making her suspicious. In this manner Tituba does the sudden by admitting to the false charges and naming different partners of the fiend. Understanding this Abigail does likewise and the young ladies take after. She initially blames the outsiders for society to get the help from the townsfolk knowing admirably that they will effectively trust it. She moves the consideration from herself by crying

In Act I Line 355, Abigail threatened her friends that, “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.” Prior to the witch trials, Abigail wanted to seal her friends’ lips so that the message does not spread. She was so nervous to the extent that her words toward her friends were threatening. This indicated her desperate desire for manipulation and control of the power. She only concerned about the safety of herself and disregarded that of her friends. Moreover, Abigail accused Tituba of witchcraft when she claimed, “She sends her spirit on me in church; she makes me laugh at prayer! … She comes to me every night to go and drink blood! … She comes to me while I sleep; she's always making me dream corruptions!” (Act I Line 920).

When explaining to Hale how many people had been accused, she begins to accuse Tituba. Abigail says “She comes to me every night to go and drink blood! (1045). She behaves this way, to keep her innocent reputation. While Abigail’s goal is specifically to kill Elizabeth, she kills many other people along the way. She lies to the court to protect herself and makes up false events to make sure the accused are found guilty, to show people she is still innocent.

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

The Crucible Character Abigail Williams is a very unique person, with a confusing relationship with John Proctor, she very much connects to 1992 "Skinny Toddlers" by the Filthy Moustaches. In the story the Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Hale a reverend from out of town who came to the small village of Salem to exorcise the demons from it's people in the song "The mint is in my Armpit" by Alien Lawnmower, it suggest change in nature and flaw in character, this basically describes what Hale is there to do in Salem. Jerry Doughnut has a way of understanding people, he has the courage to pull himself out of the worst situation with the best attitude; Reverend Hale from the Crucible could have used that wisdom of Jerry many times during his struggles

“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies” (Dorothy Allison, Bastard out of Carolina). In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the town of Salem is being held together by false truths, and the people of the Salem witch trials are to be prosecuted for it. Lying is to blame for the Salem witch trials because it lead to the deaths of many innocent people.

Although lying seems unimportant, it can be much more powerful than one might think. Arthur Miller’s tragic play The Crucible recites the story of the Salem Witch trials of 1692, in which the false accusations of a few young girls resulted in over 20 casualties. Many different characters, including Parris, Abigail, and John Proctor, hide the truth to preserve their reputations. Despite their diverse social statuses and positions, they each have something to hide. They constantly omit or deny things in their testimonies to save their names.

What if you lived during a time when people feared anything that was different or strange to them? When that fear led people to cruelty. Then you would know what it was like to live during the time of the Salem Witch Trials.

Abigail has no consequences for her actions. She would lie and never get in trouble for what she