Theme Of Deception In The Crucible

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail and the girls participate in what seemed to be like harmless deception about their doings which turns into lies which even they could not get our of and in the end ended up hurting themselves.

Abigail and the girls use deception to keep them safe from punishment. This is seen very clearly at the beginning after Abigail drank the blood or as the girls called it “a charm” to kill John Proctors wife. This plays into the girls when Abigail threatens with violence the girls on lying about what they really did. For the cover-up story they stated that it was in fact Tituba who was doing conjuring. This whole plot was done by Abigail to get revenge on Elizabeth Proctor and it terms could be taken as Abigail