Who Is To Blame In The Salem Witch Trials

Liars witches and killers are just a few words to describe the people of the Christian town called Salem. In the opening scenes a group of girls went into the woods, they were singing and dancing naked around a fire. The townspeople became concerned about the girls' health due to one girl named Betty refusing to wake up. So then the girls are accused of being witches and then the ringleader of the group, Abigail Williams starts accusing other people of being a witch to her advantage. The girls go to trial to try and convince everyone that they are not witches more people get convicted and soon it becomes out of order. People nowadays think that the girls had a case of mass hysteria, however looking back on this what actually, happened was that the girls played the whole town by being frauds. Their reasons for being frauds are betty's dad, and Abigail uncle is a reverend, Abigail is in love with John Proctor, and all …show more content…
Reverend Parris is the one person that was in the woods and saw them dancing, yet he didn't say anything to anyone about it because he was so selfish that he didn't care enough about his daughter to put her first in front of his position at the church. “ Abigail, I cannot go before the congregation when I know you have not been open with me. What did you do with her in the forest? “ ( Miller Act 1). Abigail admits that she is not bewitched “We did dance, Uncle, and when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly, Betty was frightened, and then she fainted. And there‘s the whole of it.” (Miller Act 1). He cares deeply how the congregation will react to both his niece and his daughter being witches even when his daughter is sitting in a bed refusing to wake up. The reason for Betty to not wake up is that she is such a coward that she is pretending to be a witch because she is a lunatic and people can sometimes confuse being crazy with having a case of mass