Examples Of Abigail Williams In The Crucible

It takes a special type of evil to let innocent people suffer for one's own needs and wants and have no remorse for anything that may happen. In the play The Crucible, Arthur Miller describes the events that are happening in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts. People throughout the town are getting called out for suspicion of witchcraft and are being sent to jail to await trial. Many of the people accused were respected citizens in the community while the accusers were a group of teenage girls led by Abigail Williams. In Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, Miller showed that Abigail Williams’ flaws of cowardness, by running away from Salem when people started to revolt, jealousy of John Proctor’s wife, and the manipulation of her friends

Parris goes to the courthouse to confess that Abigail and Mercy Lewis have been missing for three days and have robbed him of all the money he had, “My niece, sir, my niece—I believe she has vanished.” (Scene 1, Act 4.) There had been rumors within the town that there was a rebellion in the city of Andover over people being accused of witchcraft. When Abigail hears of this she knows that Salem is close to doing the same and that she will be the target for them. In addition to her stealing and leaving her uncle, when Abigail was called into the courthouse to determine if Mary Warren was telling the truth about the girls, she knew what Mary was saying was true and the only way to get Danforth to believe her was to convince him that Mary was also a witch, “I—I know not. A wind, a cold wind, has come. Her eyes fall on Mary”(Scene 3,Act 1.) Mary and John had the evidence against Abigail that her claims of witchcraft were false, even though she was in a bad spot she was able to get out of it instead of telling the truth. Abigail and her group of girls put on an act to scare Mary into confessing that she was a witch. Abigail was a coward for leaving Salem when she realized that soon she was going to have to confess and also for putting the blame onto someone else instead of owning up to her