Why Is Abigail Williams Important In The Crucible

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The Crucible by Arthur Miller was a tragedy play because all the character were feared and lied all the time, just so they won’t get killed or hanged. The main character was Abigail Williams she was a 16-year-old girl who was doing voodoo and got caught, so she lies during the whole play just so she won’t get killed. A good play isn’t good without a protagonist and in The Crucible the protagonist was John Proctor he was a man that was married and ad kids . He had an affair with Abigail and his wife found out so he try to make things better but he couldn’t. One other thing is fear always make you do crazy things like never telling the truth.
The puritans were people who believed in the devil and that hell did existed. It was the puritan’s duty to keep an eye on their own and there neighbor’s behavior. The puritans did not tolerate the Native Americans and the puritans believed the life wasn’t important as the afterlife. Another puritan believe was that one day god might punish an

John Proctor knows that his wife would never lie so when Mr. Danforth told him that his wife said that she was pregnant. John Proctor told him that his wife would never lie or make anything up like that. “ If she says she is pregnant then she must be: that women will never lie, Mr. Danforth”(Miller 181). John Proctor thinks that she would never lie she would always tell the truth she would never lie to protect anyone. John Proctor is trying to make things so the court would let his wife free. So he tries to talking to the judge and tell him the truth, about what happen between him and Abigail. No one believed him; the judge told him if they could ask his wife. John was okay with that because he thinks that his wife would tell the truth. “Do that which is good and no harm shall be come to thee” (Miller 182). When John Proctor tries to tell the truth it was to late