Who Is Abigail Williams Honest In The Crucible

One of the strongest, most intuitive, and most influential feelings that most individuals encounter throughout their lives is fear. Many people let their fear take control of them, leading them to act dishonestly or irrationally. In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, Salem, Massachusetts, is a feeding ground for hysteria and fear. Throughout the entire play, several characters could have done more to put an end to the hysteria in Salem. For example, Abigail Williams should have been honest from the start; Mary Warren, who participated in the false accusations, chose to faithfully continue her lies rather than being fearless and seizing the opportunity to put an end to all of the lies; and Reverend Hale, who is knowledgeable about witchcraft

Abigail knew from the beginning that her acts and falsehoods were immoral, yet she decided to keep doing them to portray herself as a saint. Before the performance began, the town's panic and fear of witchcraft had not yet spread, giving Abigail the chance to confess without suffering severe consequences, “I want to open myself!... I want the light of God!... I danced for the Devil;” (Page 595, Line 481, “The Crucible”). Nonetheless, she threatened the girls around her, “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,” (Page 575, “The Crucible” Act 1, Line 160). Although there was still time before the issue became too difficult to handle, Abigail made the other girls involved lie, instead of giving them the option to speak the truth. The notion of witchcraft would not have existed in the town if Abigail hadn't made the girls lie and instead told the girls' story straight. For her self-serving ends, Abigail persisted in her falsehoods about witchcraft, which led to a widespread panic that would never have taken hold if she had been honest from the

Mary Warren was described as "a subservient, naive, lonely girl" at the beginning of "The Crucible" (Page 574, Act 1, Line 142) but as the trials go on, she starts to think highly of herself. Mary intended to tell the truth about the atrocities she and the other girls committed from the start, but she gives in to Abigail's pressure and lies throughout most of the play. Mary did give in to the truth for a little period throughout the trials, although she nearly fully fabricates the charges. Mary tries to explain to the court authorities that all of the charges were pretense with John Proctor's assistance. Mary grows a little braver and makes an effort to expose the lies behind the charges. Abigail and the other girls act as though Mary is enchanting them while chatting with the court officials. Mary begs them to stop, but the girls keep up the façade. Mary is interrogated brutally by the judges, and instead of speaking out for the truth, she turns on John Proctor and declares, "You're the Devil's man!" (Page 654, Act 3, Line 500, "The Crucible"). Mary Warren diverts attention away from herself and onto John Proctor rather than disclosing the facts as