How Is Abigail Williams Selfish

Pointing the fingers at Abigail Williams

Many people were put to death in Salem due to the evil lies that were caused by hysteria. In The Crucible, by Author Miller, many poor, innocent villagers were wrongly accused of witchcraft and quickly put to death. The character most responsible for the Salem Witch Trials and the deaths thereafter was Abigail Williams because she must always be the center of attention, she is selfish, and a threatening human being. To begin with, Abigail always must be the center of attention since the very beginning and, the type of person that she only thinks about themselves and, not about anyone else or if they do their jumping to conclusion saying how it wasn’t them when it was. Abigail seems to do this

. . . I want the light of God; I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osborn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!’’ (Abigail 1039) this is a way that she wants people to feel sorry for her.

Furthermore, there was an affair between Abigail and John Proctor that makes her become very selfish knowing that all Abigail want’s is John Proctor. ’You love me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! John, pity me, pity me’’ (Abigail 484) she’s trying to convince him to love her but it seems that it’s not going to happen and Abigail still doesn’t understand especially since Proctor is a married man as well as she would do anything to be with him. Proctors wife is in jail and his friends. Afterwards Abigail threatens the girls, ‘’Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and, I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you’’ (Miller 408) this is caused when Abigail and the other girls were dancing in the woods around the fire it seems as if they were doing some type of witchcraft but many don’t believe this since there are so many girls that are having to follow whatever Abigail says since she is always threatening them in some way. Doesn’t want to be accused or blamed for these

Second to last why Abigail is the most responsible is the affair that she has with John Proctor this makes her a very selfish person knowing that he is a married man an she will do anything just to be with him based on a quote above. Many people in the village they were being wrongly accused of witchcraft and quickly put to death when several of them did absolutely nothing wrong or the might have believed that you’re going witchcraft if you acted a certain way or Sayed something that they didn’t like you were put to jail when it should have been Abigail and the girls behind her all along. I truly believed that they believed that there was nothing wrong with them but were too afraid to tell the truth due to Abigail threatening them an this is a major crime that they are doing as well as it caused so many people to die over absolutely nothing only that it was Abigail’s idea in the first place an she loves all this attention that she is receiving from all of the villagers that she didn’t receive by her uncle but really she did letting her have a place to live. Even though you dance around the fire and, your uncle saw what you were going an kept it a secret from the court because he loves you an