William Shenstone, a wise English poet, once said “A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.” As you read you see that Abigail is just telling lie after lie and the majority believe her. When someone goes against what Abigail is saying and says the actual truth, everyone, of course, thinks of it as a lie. Abigail successfully changes their ways of thinking and manipulates them into trusting her. If Abigail had been taken out of the picture this situation would have been avoided. On the contrary the Puritan society can take blame for all the executions and accusations because of their religion being really strict. Puritans believed in following the Bible and punishing people who sinned. Now, everyone sins, that is no surprise. This caused everyone to constantly have to deal with their guilt and sometimes they would point out others in hopes of diverting attention from themselves. Blaming the Puritan society in general is too vague, however. This brings us to Abigail, she is …show more content…
Abigail had been aware that Mary had a poppet, I mean Mary says, “Ask Abby, Abby sat beside me when I make it.” She also happened to notice the needle in it and decided to take advantage of that. So, naturally, she stuck a needle in herself to mirror the poppet and have it be played off as witchcraft. People investigate and find the needle in the same spot where Mary was stabbed. Everyone is so delusional and terrified of the devil and witchcraft that they believe her. Proctor reaches out to the Court and claims that she is a liar, “I beg you, sir, I beg you--see her what she is.... She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore's vengeance, and you must see it now.” This doesn’t do any good though, no one believes him until it is too