Abigail In The Crucible

The book The Crucible by Arthur Miller was successful in warning the citizens of America against McCarthyism during the 1950’s. McCarthyism began because of a man named McCarthy and in the story The Crucible, a young girl named Abigail started the madness which lead to the witch trials. Abigail was galvanized by love, creating a duplicitous version of herself and sparked conflict between herself, Proctor, and Elizabeth. Deceitfulness and lies is constant throughout the story, and Abigail is the master behind all of it. She is intimidating and uses this to manipulate everyone, including her friends; she is the puppeteer of the show doing as she pleases. As the quote from page 20 where Abigail is speaking to the girls of the town of Salem demonstrates
Her appearance was just as deceitful as her actual personality. In the story Abigail is introduced on page 8 as a “strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, and with an endless capacity for dissembling.” It is ironic how alluring and appealing her appearance was, yet, her personality was evil and twisted. The fact that she has the ability to conceal her real motives and feelings gave her an advantage which she abused in order to achieve her sole purpose. Proctor, a married man whom she had an affair with, is the reason she began the entire witchcraft frenzy. All she wanted was to be with the man she fell in love with, Proctor, and she took the opportunity to do so. Her values were in Proctor, in getting what she wanted, and in power. She began to obsess in her values and motive, which created that fraudulent person in the
To the extent of murdering people she chased after a man who did not love her back. She was stubborn, boundless, and willing, and this is the reason why she was such an important character. An illusion she held and that false reality is what drove her to commit insane and outrageous actions. Admiration is not found in a fantasy because it is not true. We can not live without our heads, but we can not live in our heads. Our life is not a fantasy and a fantasy is not our life. However, Abigail seemed to refuse this; hence, she is not a person of adoration and thus she was a person driven by love committing cruel deeds and sparking conflict not only with Proctor and Elizabeth but with