High school can be very stressful, students are always worried about doing well in school so they can achieve goals that they have set for themselves. Examples of such goals would be, getting accepted into a top notch university, a scholarship, or a really high gpa. The fear of not being able to obtain such goals causes the students to act selfishly in stressful situations. In The Crucible, Abigail and several other girls pretend they are god’s “helpers” who expose the people who are “committing” witchcraft. Deriving from this central idea, Arthur Miller employs the use of self-preservation rather than thinking about the consequences of their actions. Throughout the entire play the act of self-preservation becomes Abigail’s source of power.
