Why Is Abigail Williams Crazy

All is fair in love and war" Abigail Williams a girl of 17, from The Crucible sure did put a new spin to this saying. She believed that her love for John Proctor, a married man, was true love and so did a great many atrocities for that so called "love" even though in truth it was just a affair. This girl is the main villain of this story and thus is characterized as such : crazy, obsessed, and truly a manipulative girl. "Why is she crazy?"you might ask. Abbie was single handedly a 17 year old girl that was the cause of many deaths in this witch hunting story set in Salem. She was a girl that wanted her way and so foolishly thought that by taking down her competition and being label the true and good girl she could. And in a way, this girl was truly right once everyone thought she was good and pure she held the power in the town by threating the girls and threatening a weary and good man John Proctor. She even at a meeting to get back at her ex affair with John Proctor stabbed herself while watching Elizabeth's servant ,Mary, sow a poppet for her mistress then accused Elizabeth of witch craft. "Obsessed, or Obsession" means, according to Google is to" Preoccupy or fill the mind of (someone) continually, intrusively, and to a
But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.” written by T.F Hodge. The quote is so true when you compare it with what Abigail did in Salem, how she manipulated her own uncle and the towns folk into believing her every single word, how she saved her self by incriminating others just to settle petty squabbles and settling old scores. An example, is in the beginning when their pastor caught them, the girls dancing in the woods with the African American servant ,Tituba, she blamed everything on Tituba saying that the woman was using magic and caused her to drink