Abigail Williams In The Crucible

I am writing to you to tell you of the many faults in the testimony of Abigail Williams. She is nothing but a liar, a cheater, and a vengeful whore who has managed to accuse my wife, Elizabeth Proctor, and others who stand in her path of hatred. Aye, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation about why Ms. Williams has orchestrated the witch trials and driven the village insane. You should place no faith in her testimony, as her only motives are to manipulate and destroy the village in the process. You, as the judge of the court, as well as the biased Reverend Hale and Ezekiel Cheever support Abigail Williams, who completely fabricated the story of witchcraft. She personally admitted to me, on the day in which Betty Parris fell ill, that “We were dancin’ in the woods last night, and my uncle leaped in on us. She took fright, is all!” (Miller 22) There was no cause for witchcraft that night, Abigail was very distraught that I would not show her affection! As you know, I am very …show more content…
Cheever collected sixteen warrants for women in the village, one of which was for my innocent wife. In fact, Abigail was conniving enough to frame Elizabeth. As an act of ‘friendship’, Abby gave a poppet to my servant, Mary Warren. Abby manipulated Mary Warren to place the poppet right on my fireplace, and then stabbed herself with the needle, similar to the one she placed inside of the poppet when she sat down for dinner that night at the Parris household! Marry Warren, Mercy Lewis, Betty Parris, Tituba, all are afraid of Abigail Williams, because she can manipulate all of them! How have you become so blind about what is occurring in the town of Salem, that you not question the main accuser? “Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born as clean as God’s fingers? I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem – vengeance is walking Salem” (Miller