Cataclysmic Habitual Essences Salem’s unity, community, and perfection disintegrates with the town’s absurd ways of their daily life. Scapegoating and vengeance becomes a key component of the society’s everyday life; either trying to execute the actions, or evading the actions. Salem is a town where the accusing finger lays. Scapegoating is a way to incriminate others for their own abominable bungle. Throughout the play, a teeming amount of people get the accusing finger thrown at them. Abigail masters many talents, but her best talent; scapegoating, has convinced many of the people around her to disregard and free herself from possibly being accused. Abigail is in court and somehow the accusing finger is shifting towards her, to derail herself from that she screams: “She made me do it! She made Betty do …show more content…
Abigail, who becomes the main witness about her and many other girls dancing naked in the forest, is a very strategic accuser. For example, since she [Tituba], is a slave, that doesn’t have rights, and leads them in a dance in the forest, Abigail realizes that Tituba can possibly an easy target to scapegoat. Abigail is one of many people who causes Salem’s unity to disintegrate because trust is hard to gain and seek forth. Earlier in the play, Putman, a greedy, self-centered man, with great importance in Salem, holds the girls in the forest accountable of misleading the court into believing their pointing finger and illness. He claims that they are acting and it is all just to get revenge on the people who have irked them or even the devil. Putman says: “I have taken part in all your connections here, and I would continue; but I cannot if you hold back in this. There are hurtful vengeful spirits layin’ hands on these children” (14). Putman believes that the spirits, meaning the devil, lurks