Salem Witch Trials In The Crucible Essay

In the novel The Crucible by Arthur Miller, The Salem Witch Trials are incited with accusations against some of the known girls of Salem. Due to the greed and deep rooted vengeance that the people of Salem have for one another it turns into hysteria and pure injustice. The people of Salem saw the Witch Trials as a perfect way to get back at each other these "truth seeking” hearings were built entirely of falsehoods, most of which originates from the testimonies of Abigail Williams. Abigail's vengeful feelings spur her into manipulating the girls, lying to the court, and attempting to ruin the relationship of John and Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail never gave up until she couldn’t take it anymore. “Jesus looked at them and said, with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Holy Bible). For example, people think that just because it looks impossible to do the first thing they say is “I can’t do that”. Once you keep trying until you can’t do it anymore then that’s when you know you at least tried and can say that it is impossible for you. However, Abigail is not the only one guilty of this, throughout the whole novel, there are many instances of the citizens of Salem crying “witch” in order to gain something they wanted from their neighbors or to get revenge on those they did not like.

Abigail is a prime example of crying “witch” in order to gain something. …show more content…
When Mary tries to correct her wrong-doings by telling the court the truth, Abigail makes John's plan backfire by stating that Mary is the devilish yellow bird. The girls only did that because abigail was still in love with John Proctor. She didn’t want Mary Warren to be with John any more, that’s why all the girls went to the forest. Since she couldn’t have him all to herself she decided to pretend that the devil was in her; just so he could feel bad for