Who Is To Blame For Abigail Williams

Abigail Williams and the girls is responsible for the deaths of the people who were wrongly convicted and hanged. Also Danforth has some of the blame for this situation as well. However, the girls are the ones who started this situation because the book explains, “Mr. Parris said, “That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the forest,” (6). In Salem, the rules are to not go through the woods and dances. Now people think that they are doing witchcraft. People believes it now because Betty Parris will not wake up. Mr. Parris explains, “Then why can’t she not move herself since midnight? This child is desperate,” (8). Since Betty Parris can not wake up, there is rumors going on that Mr. Parris has witchcrafts in his house. All the girls are scared of Abigail Williams because of what she did in the forest. Betty Parris exclaims, “You drank blood, Abby! You didn’t tell him that,” (17). Abigail drank blood from a chicken to kill Elizabeth Proctor. Also the girls are scared of Abigail because she said to Betty, “I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down,”

He is the blame for Mr. Giles’s death. Mr. Gale told Danforth about someone telling him about Putnam. Then Mr. Giles is convicted of the contempt of the court. Giles said, “This is a hearing; you cannot clap me for contempt of a hearing,” (93). After, Mr. Giles is place on the ground with weights on him until he tells the court the name. However, Mr. Giles did not and he dies. Danforth also got a confession from Proctor but it was not enough for him. He ask for Proctor to write his name on his confession. Proctor says, “You will not use me! I am no Sarah Good or Tituba, I am John Proctor! You will not use me! It is no part salvation that you should use me,” (137). Even though, Danforth knows that John Proctor is innocent, he still made the people put John to his