Who Is To Blame In The Crucible

The Crucible by Arthur Miller, was a tragic event During 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts a 17-year-old girl whose name was Abigail Williams, caused several tragic deaths to protect herself from punishment. Throughout The Crucible she accused innocent people of being witches, and if they didn’t admit that they had been involved in witchcraft, they were hung. For being silent and not lying, a sin in the highly Christian society, people were hanged. Abigail is the most to blame because she knows that the girls were just faking to avoid getting in trouble, and manipulates them to accuse people anyway, knowing that the accused would either die or admit to a crime they didn’t commit and lose all respect in the community. She also goes out of her way to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor.She goes through with these actions for her self benefit, and has the most blame on her shoulders. To start with in the beginning of the novel she demonstrates that she very selfish and cruel. Abigail drinks blood to kill the wife of John Proctor, to have him for herself. For …show more content…
Even with a huge age difference Abigail seems to think she has a high level of maturity to do anything she wants. John told Abigail that he was done with the affair and that he will never touch her again. For example “You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! John, pity me, pity me!” The more she thinks about the affair, the more Abigail convinces herself that Proctor loves her back but can’t love her back because of Elizabeth. She believes she has to end Elizabeth so that she and Proctor can marry, and this is what drives her to do all these sinful things throughout the