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Who Is Abigail Evil In The Crucible

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In the Salem Witch Trials, 141 people were arrested, 19 people were hanged, and one person was crushed to death. In the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the witch trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Abigail was the initial accuser of the witchcraft when she and a few other girls broke the rules. Abby had lied about what happened so she didn’t get punished. Abigail displays her villainous characteristics by telling lies, being manipulative, and leading nineteen innocent people to their untimely death. Miller conveys the Puritans repressed desires through, Abigail. First, Abigail constantly told lies so she didn’t get caught and be punished. For example, when Abigail tells the girls that she let Parris know about what happened in the forest, she didn’t tell him about everything. “Let either of you breather a word, or the edges of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you…” (Miller, 144). There’s a glimpse of Abigail William’s ruthless nature. She fully understands the ramifications of being found guilty of …show more content…

Abigail accused anyone of seeing the Devil just so she didn’t get punished. For example, Abigail really wanted John Proctor to herself, in order to achieve that she had to kill Elizabeth. “You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife” (144). This signifies a jealousy in Abigail to kill Elizabeth Proctor. She drank this charm in order to kill Elizabeth as part of the so-called witchcraft that took place in the forest. Another example is, Abigail and Proctor were talking about what had happened in the forest, and Proctor is denying any affair or anything. “She is blackening my name… She is a cold, sniveling woman, and you bend to her!” (146). Abigail pretends she’s angry at Elizabeth for damaging her reputation, the more powerful emotion is envy of Elizabeth for her marriage to John. She result to petty name-calling in order to cast doubt in John’s

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