Examples Of Abigail Williams In The Crucible

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The society depicted in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible shows the audience that they want to purify the country. Abigail Williams show, from the beginning, that she has power to control and lead the society anywhere she wants to. She first starts the play by being accused of witchcraft for dancing in the woods but she quickly escapes consequences by saying she was innocent and continues to become the accuser of many other citizens of Salem. To not fight society, she gives it what it wants to hear which is that there are witches running around the village. “She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave!...But it is a whore’s vengeance.” (Miller, Arthur, Crucible 220). John Proctor states that all Abigail hunts for is revenge behind all of the