Abigail Williams, from the book The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and Joseph McCarthy from the movie Good Night, and Good Luck directed by George Clooney are both really similar. The Crucible is about a man name Reverend Hale he found his daughter lying unconscious in the woods and asking Abigail, his housekeeper or maid, why they were in the woods and why did it look like a ritual then Abigail told him that it was witches. Good Night, and Good Luck is about a group of professional newsmen who with great precision remove a cancer from the body politic. They believe in the fundamental American freedoms, and in Sen. Joseph McCarthy they see a man who would destroy those freedoms in the name of defending them, but in reality he’s just paranoid. Because McCarthy is a liar and a bully, surrounded by yes-men, recklessly calling his opponents traitors, he commands great power for a time. He destroys others with lies, and then is himself destroyed by the truth. …show more content…
First,. she started the witch trials and accused everyone that she didn't like or knew about the lie of being a witch. She is a cruel and selfish person she says this to Mary Warren, Betty, and Susanna “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.” this shows that she will do anything so she can be safe. The government of Salem would believe because they didn't know how to tell if they were lying. Anyone that was accused had the choice of either confessing to something they didn't do or to get