Similarities Between The Crucible And Things Fall Apart

Lies, Pressure, and Reputation. Arthur Miller's “The Crucible” and Chinua Achebe's “ Things Fall Apart” have more in common than meets the eye. The main characters in these stories, Abigail Williams and Okonkwo, both have a reputation to uphold and both have a significant effect on their community.
Although the goals they had set for themselves were not met, they were able to impact their community in momentous ways.

Abigail Williams of The Crucible was one of the main characters of the story. After Reverend Samuel Parris witnessed Abigail, his niece, along with his daughter Betty and their slave Tituba dancing in the woods at midnight, he accused them of performing witchcraft. However, this was a misunderstanding, but due to the reverend's

The negative impact Abigail made on the town was mainly caused by the conflict between her, John Procter, and Elizabeth Procter, and can be seen by the dialogue between the Procters on page 605. "Proctor: Spare me! You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’. Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven months since she has been gone. I have not moved from there to there without I think pleasing you, and still, an everlasting funeral marches around your heart. I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!” (Miller, 605) Ever since she and John Proctor had an affair, Abigail has been deeply in love and obsessed with John Proctor. Therefore, Abigail Williams affected Elizabeth Proctor to have a distrustful personality towards John Proctor. To add, John Proctor was under great pressure from Abigail instead than Elizabeth. Abigail’s efforts to be with John Proctor are the main example of John Proctor and Abigail's tension throughout the play. Though this impacted John and Elizabeth first, John Proctor’s affair with Abigail caused him to not confront the truth, then affecting the whole town, leading to the death of nineteen