Abigail A Victim In The Crucible

Playing The Victim

In The Crucible, Abigail Williams can either be viewed as a victim, or as the perpetrator. Abigail is definitely the perpetrator of the story. Because of her, many innocent people are wrongly executed. The people whose lives are taken for no reason are the real victims of trials. If she would had never made so many far-fetched accusations, the accused would be able to walk away with their life, and there would have never been a conflict to begin with. Abigail is in no way the victim.
Some might argue that there are outside forces acting upon Abigail which give reason for her to be pardoned or excused, however she doesn’t seem to have any forces upon her which influence her actions. She knew what she was doing and was in …show more content…
Someone who purposely accuses innocent people in order to get who or what she wants and doesn’t care who she hurts and whose lives she destroys in the process is not in any way a victim. They are just plain evil. She had no forces upon her influencing her to do this like some might say, she made these decisions entirely on her own. She had a motive which was to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor to have John to herself. When her scheme failed, she had been the reason that so many innocent villagers were locked up and executed. If Abigail had never made any of these claims to begin with, then there would not even be a series of witchcraft trials. She made a colossal mess for no reason and didn't bother trying to clean it up. Abigail is the culprit of this story, and all the innocent people who died, got locked away, and had loved ones suddenly ripped from their lives were the victims of The Crucible. Unfortunately, no one realized that Abigail was the perpetrator until she suddenly left Salem in the midst of all of this and by this time, dozens had already been killed due to her false claims. Only then had the court realized that they had executed people based on the claims of an absolutely insane