Jealousy In The Character Of Abigail Williams: The Crucible

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Jealousy can make you do crazy or even dangerous actions when the green eyed monster rears its ugly head it has the power to goad you into bad situations. In this case it has obviously claimed Abigail Williams because in her case she was so jealous of Elizabeth Proctor, she created this whole scheme or witchery to reach her end goal: John Proctor. Abigail is a master manipulator if she hadn’t lied about the girls playing around as witchcraft to try and kill goody proctor the trials never would have proceeded.
Abigail used her manipulation and talent at lying to her advantage to start the rumor of witchery in the village. Just so she could get John Proctor 's wife Elizabeth out of the picture so she could try and marry John, if she hadn 't
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Furthermore the author gives us a glimpse into Abigail 's first plan to get kill off Goody Proctor so it is not hard to infer how willing she will go to make John hers which we can assume is how she came up with her second excuse/plan to make Elizabeth gone once her first idea failed. In most people 's opinion you’ve got to be really desperate or committed to something, if you can accuse an innocent person of witchcraft knowing what will most likely happen to that person and don 't feel an ounce of remorse for what you have done. Proving Abigail doesn’t care what happens to anyone as long as in the end she gets John Proctor. Not to mention no one had any suspicions of witchcraft in Salem until after the girls danced in the woods and Betty and Ruth fell “ill”.
As a cause of Abigail 's lies and deception to prove the girls and her side of the story true nineteen innocent townsfolk die those deaths are all Abigail 's fault. If she had told the truth about what really happened in the forest the dark cloud that were the witch trials never would have commenced. In this background Reverend Hale is
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller demonstrates how no man is perfect and we all make mistakes but it is not too late to own up to your actions and stand up for what we believe is right as shown through John Proctor. As we see through Abigail Williams is how one bad action can domino into deadly consequences of innocent people taking the fall for your actions, once you lie you keep digging yourself deeper and deeper into desperation until you are grasping at straws to justify yourself what you’re doing is right. It is always better to come clean or tell the truth for the sake of others and so your conscience is cleared of all

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