The Crucible John Proctor Guilty Analysis

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Abigail was truly the one who is responsible for this whole mess because she blamed others and had an affair with John when he has a wife and two kids and one on the way. Yes, there were other people involved in this but the thing is she was kept on blaming others while the people pointed back at her. There are so many advents that she has done in the story. For an example the affair,laughing in church and dancing naked in the woods. So, I really don’t see why she wouldn’t be the one to be blamed.
As some people should know John and Abigail had an affair even though he has a wife and two kids and one on the way. Yes it takes two people to have an affair but she shouldn’t have done that and sat there a lied about it and tried to get him to
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Another reason she is guilty she kept on blaming other people for what she has done. She also told the girls not to say anything that happened in the woods because she didn’t want to be caught for casting the spell in the woods while they were dancing in the woods. Also she got fired from Elizabeth’s house because she had an affair with John proctor.
She also has done ungodly things like laughing in church, she stole, and got fired from her job. She got fired because John’s wife found out her and John having that affair so Elizabeth fired her. She laughed at church while they were having they had Sunday school going on. People thought that when she was laughing at god that she had the devil in her. She stole money for her uncle to use for her own use.
Even though Abigail has all fingers pointed at her for being reasonable you also have to look at who is all in her life there isn’t very many great people in her life. The people in her life could have influenced her to have done the things she has done. On the other hand people do have there own mind and can’t make there own mind. For an example my mom has kicked me out of my house but that doesn’t mean that I have made bad choices I still make my own choices on my own. Therefore she could have made up her own mind in her choice that she has made in the

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