Thesis Statement: In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Miller is trying to get across to the audience is that people tend to do crazy things when we are afraid of something.
A prime example of the evil person that was responsible for the witch hysteria is Abigail Williams. A seventeen year old girl who was drinking blood and caught dancing in the the woods with her friends just so Elizabeth Proctor could be killed. Elizabeth Proctor is the wife of John Proctor, who Abigail is in love with. Abigail did everything she could to get her revenge. In (I.i.26) After getting caught, Betty confessed and accuses Abigail of drinking blood to kill Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail is a very smart girl who is proud that everyone believes her, but she also knows that if the word gets out that she was lying about everything, she will be hung. "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