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The Crucible


            At the root of every conflict there seems to be at least one person who initiates the entire situation. In The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, many problems arise, some as serious as life or death. Many innocent people in The Crucible were hanged. Of course there are many people that may be to blame for the witch trials. However The Crucible leads the reader to believe that the majority of the guilt could be found in Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and John Proctor. .
             Although she is a smart, charismatic person with what seems to be a decent life for Puritan times, Abigail is a spiteful, vengeful, evil, young lady. She not only lied about witchcraft, causing people to die, but she also forced others to join in as well. Abigail was Reverend Parris" niece and she believed she could get away with anything she wanted because her uncle was the reverend, and because he held such power over the community, and in a sense Abigail was right because she did achieve everything she wanted right up until the end. Abigail gained power by accusing people of trafficking with the devil, which she thought would eventually allow her to be with John Proctor. This fact is her entire motivation for the manipulation of the townspeople and her uncle. Abigail's manipulation extended still to the other girls that danced in the forest with her. She not only forced them into lying to save her reputation and back up her accusations, but she also led them to convict their friends and neighbors to death. When alone with the girls she says "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."(pg.20) This alone made the girls scared of Abigail, who in turn made them obey her every whim. Although they knew they were doing something horribly wrong, Abigail's manipulative ways made them continue to follow her even more intently.


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