The Crucible is a play written about Puritans around the time of 1692 when the Salem witch trials were taking place. Women, men, and children were scared for their lives afraid that someone would call them a witch and they would be persecuted, put in jail, crushed, or even hanged. This gave the people an idea that if they wanted something someone else had, why not call them a witch let them get killed and take what they leave behind. This caused a mass murder of innocent people to die just because of greed and jealousy. In the play, The Crucible, a character named Abigail was seen in the woods by her uncle, Rev. Parris. A minister in the village of which they lived, and what he saw was a horrid site. A bunch of the girls from the village and one slave named Tituba, were dancing around a fire while some of them were naked. This scared the minister was so shocked that he did not know what to do. When he returned to the village, two of the girls were laying lifeless in the bed. Parris says “Now look you, child, your punishment will come in its …show more content…
Did Abigail really see Goody Proctor with the devil or was it a lie just so she could be hanged so she could get her husband John Proctor who she committed adultery with before this all took place? Yes, before all this happened Abigail was working for Proctor doing housework, until she was fired by Goody Proctor. When her and Proctor got a little thing going and they committed the sin of adultery, Proctor realized what he had done and fired her. But deep down Abigail still had feelings for him and would stop at nothing to get her revenge on Goody Proctor and get what she wanted. So when the town people heard that Goody Proctor's name was mentioned they headed to her home in the farthest part of the town to get her and take her to court to be judged upon witchcraft. When they took her to court and founded her guilty and John was founded guilty too, and they were both sentenced to