Who Is Abigail Guilty In The Crucible

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In the story “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller.In this story one of the main characters Abigail Williams is shown as an evil girl who dances for the devil and does witchcraft.This all takes place in the woods the person to witness this is Reverend Parris he then tells the judge and the girls are then put on trial and ask them to confess.they then blame a slave that goes by the name of Tituba Abigail and all of the other girls in the woods also blame her for making them go and do witchcraft. All of these girls are lying especially Abigail these girls being to blame others instead of confessing so that they will not be hung for witchcraft. They then start little by little tell the court who is working for the devil which nobody has talked or seen the devil.

At this point I say that Abigail deserves to get blamed for everything going on in salem because she is the one who agreed to do witchcraft in the woods.This also has an effect on the little girls because she is the oldest one.Abigail also makes John Proctor commit adultery by cheating on his sick at home wife with Abigail Williams. John Proctor see’s his mistakes and tells Abigail that he wants nothing to do with her and is not in love with her but Abigail fails to believe that and provokes him by following him around trying to kiss him and the only reason she went to the woods to do witchcraft was because she loves John Proctor and …show more content…

Even if any of the girls wanted to confess to the court and tell the court they danced in the woods on purpose they are scared of Abigail because she threatens to hurt them.This convinces all of the girls to lie for Abigail and destroy Salem by telling the court they are spiritually being attacked by these people because they work with the