Between Mary Warren And Abigail Williams In The Crucible

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Mary Warren and Abigail Williams The storyline of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible has an overwhelming number of surprises and dark secrets that affect the fate of all of the characters especially Mary Warren and Abigail Williams. Abigail Williams, who is an manipulative 17 year old girl and her cowardly partner in crime, Mary Warren, are both guilty of causing great harm in Salem and telling lies to save their own skin. Through these characters, Miller reminds us that the danger they place themselves in, only cause nothing but trouble. Mary Warren is a servant in the Proctor’s house who seems an naive and subservient young teenager who finds a powerful role in the courtroom. Mary and Abigail are both liars in this play. When Proctor demands …show more content…
Abigail is a jealous and manipulative 17 year old teenager who craves attention. Abigail uses her ability to manipulate people in a society where people are afraid of what they don’t know to get what she wants. Abigail begins with her web of lies about the night in the woods. Abigail and the girls were dancing in the woods and casting a "charm to kill Goody Proctor”. (Act 1) She drank chicken blood and hoping it would cast a charm to kill John’s wife Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail wants to keep John all to herself. As Parris and the others find out about the dancing and casting spells in the woods, Abigail is scared that she is going to be hanged and cause more serious damage. Abigail has threatened the other girls and clearly says, “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 will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you." (Act 1) Abigail is afraid the truth will spill out to the courtroom and does not want the court to charge her with witchcraft. She threatened her girlfriends to keep quiet and cover the truth with a