In the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, the character Abigail Williams is an orphan who likes to keep her private life a secret to where no one knows what she is doing. Abigail is the type of character that likes to lie about the things that she does, and blames things on others to make sure she is not being suspected of any wrong doings. She makes sure that if people are suspecting her in any type of way then she has an excuse to prove them wrong that she is the innocent one. Abigail Williams is lying throughout the whole play. Her motivation to keep her reputation throughout the play is to lie, or cover up the sins and wrongdoings that she does. If Abigail’s point does not get across, or if someone is in her way, she threatens them so that she knows nobody find out what she is doing in her private time. The quote “ let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and i will come to you and i will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you” (Miller 1268) …show more content…
As you know already Abigail wants to keep her private life a secret, and lies at no cost to keep it that way. Abigail does accuse people for her own wrongdoings throughout the play just to make sure she is not suspected of anything wrong with the beliefs in Salem. The evidence when Abigail is saying “Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that’s all” (1268) proves the fact that Abigail harms people, and accuses them without thinking twice about it. Abigail’s choices to lie, and cover up does involve and affect the majority of the other characters in the play. She affects the characters when she involves them in her lies to hide herself from the wrong things she is committing. “ I say shut it Mary Warren” (1269) this quote is proving that Abigail Williams is a mean person to the girls and guys that get into her