The Crucible is a story based on the time during the Salem Witch Trials, written by Arthur Miller. The genre of the story is a play and the author's purpose of the story is to inform the audience on what happened in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. The Crucible is a twisted story about how one girl named Abigail Williams will do anything to get what she wants, even if it means to accuse everyone in the town’s a witch and having dealt with the devil just so she can have a married man, named John Proctor. Everything gets out of control and Abigail conveniences everyone in the town that whoever she says is a witch, is a witch, except John Proctor because he knows her true reason behind all this evil things she is doing and he doesn't want her. In the story The Crucible, Abigail Williams has an affair with a married man named John Proctor. It all started by John's wife, Elizabeth Proctor, hired Abigail to be a housemaid because she was very ill and could not work. Abigail lived in the house as well as working in the house and doing all the jobs that Elizabeth would be doing, for an example taking care of the kids, cleaning the …show more content…
90% of the things that happened most people don't know about other than the girls who were in the woods with her. The one thing that everyone knows she was doing was dancing, she say she was just dancing for fun and it had nothing to do with witchcraft. However, it is not true her and many other girls were dancing the woods and using witchcraft because they wanted something or someone. Other than dancing also some other unusual thing happened like a 2 sacrifice and the drinking of blood. The 2 sacrifices that took place was one of the very young girls threw a frog into the pot which stood in the middle of all of them, the other was a turkey from which abigail drink blood from. She drank this blood so she could kill Elizabeth Proctor and finally have her true love, John