Abigail's Reputation In The Crucible

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Is preserving your reputation more important than people’s feelings and lives? In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the main characters, Abigail and John Proctor structure the story in an intriguing way, but many other characters contribute to the plot as well. Preserving one’s reputation is a prevalent theme throughout The Crucible especially within two specific characters, Abigail and John Proctor. Abigail is a very important character throughout The Crucible due to her outwitting attempts to preserving her reputation, especially after she danced in the woods and drank blood to get rid of Goody Proctor. This is shown when Arthur Miller writes, “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will bring