Who Is Abigail Responsible For The Crucible

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller many characters are responsible for the outcome of the story. The Crucible is about three teenage girls who are caught dancing in the woods. Dancing was not allowed in Salem in 1692 and they knew that they would be punished. To avoid their punishment they accuse others of making them do it by using witchcraft. Innocent people are hanged because of the lie they made. This starts the Salem Witch Trials. Abigail Williams, one of the girls in the woods, is most responsible for the rest of the story. Abigail is responsible because she is worried about her reputation and tells lies so people would believe her, causing many people to be killed for no reason.
Abigail is worried about her reputation. This leads her to do some despicable things. After the girls are caught Abigail says...
We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. (Miller 19) …show more content…
She threatens to kill them if they say anything about what actually happened. Abigail is responsible for the outcome of the story because she could have confessed and accepted her punishment but instead she kept quiet. The girls were to scared and did not know what to do so they started to blame others. By accusing others, everyone started to believe witches were real, and blamed more people of using witchcraft. This affected the town by having innocent people die after telling the truth that they were not