The Crucible Essay – “Who Is Really to Blame?”

fact jealousy and that is the first reason why she is to blame for the deaths. Abigail was once found dancing in the woods with many of the other girls. After the girls were caught, Abigail was in fear of her life because she knew that if someone else was not blamed, she would be accused and killed. Abigail Williams tried everything to avoid being blamed. Abigail was manipulative towards her friends. She let her own greed get in the way of er relationships. In the play, Abigail accuses one of her very good friends of being a witch to attempt to prove her innocence. Abigail Williams also claimed that she saw Mary Warren’s spirit in the form of a bird. “But God made my face; you cannot want to tear my face. Envy is a deadly sin, Mary” (Page 115). All of these are examples as to why Abigail used a previous event in order to manipulate many characters in The Crucible. As stated before, Abigail Williams is the obvious villain in the play, The Crucible.

Considering her lust of John Proctor and her resentment for Elizabeth Proctor and the fear for her life, it was easy to see that Abigail was to blame for the tragic deaths of those innocent Puritans who died during the witch hunts in Salem in the 1600s. Abigail Williams fought to save her own life and did not care about anyone else who got in her way. Her arrogance, control, and power made people gullible to the lies that she told them and in the end, hurt many people who were, in fact, innocent. Works Cited: Miller, Arthur. The

Crucible. London: Penguin Classics, 2003.