The Crucible Abigail A Passive Liar

“The Crucible” a riveting play about the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. The main focus of the play was about a young lady, 17 years of age, her name is Abigail Williams. Abigail has an interesting past. She used to do work for the Proctor household, until she was thrown out under mysterious circumstances. Abigail was also orphaned and taken in by a man Samuel Parris, the Reverend of the town of Salem. One night Rev. Parris was going through the woods. He happened upon a group of young girls from town, they were all dancing and going wild around a pot that was bubbling with unknown substances within it. This was strictly against Puritan beliefs and fell under the category of witchcraft. Parris let himself be known to the girls and they all ran for …show more content…
Parris then goes on to have a talk with Abigail about the events of that night in the woods. Her answers first start out calm and collected, but then takes a turn for the worse when she is asked about the Proctor family. She also lies about what they were really doing in the woods, she said it was just for sport, it was really for having love spells cast. From the first pages of the play one can already interpret that Abigail is deceitful, a passive liar and changes the way she acts based on who she's with. Abigail has many different personalities. It changes depending on who she is with or who is around her at the time. When she is with the group of girls who were in the woods with her, she acts like their leader. After Rev. Parris left she went straight to Betty to wake her up “ turns at once and goes to Betty, and now, with fear in her voice: Betty? Betty doesn't move. She shakes her. Now stop this! Betty! Sit up now. At this moment Abigail seems to be frightened and a bit panicked that Betty will not wake. Then she changes from being panicked to being a leader. She does this by telling Mercy that if they are going to be questioned that she should say they danced, because