Examples Of Scapegoating In The Crucible

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Scapegoating is a easy way to get out of trouble when something bad has happened. Basically scapegoating is when you blame something bad on someone who is innocent and did not do the bad thing. Abigail Williams is known for throwing people under the bus. Abby was madly in love with John Proctor. But that was a big issue because Proctor was married and adultery is against the Ten Commandments. Abby loved causing trouble and one time she went into the woods with her friends and they were dancing around. Dancing was against the rules. Mary Warren, a friend of Abby’s, made a poppet. A poppet is a doll. The poppet caused a havoc though when Mary Warren stuck a needle in the stomach of it. She was just got done sewing it together so she just out the needle back in it. Mary Warren was not trying to cause a issue by this. But in the end it caused a huge problem. John Proctor was a beloved man by the community and Abigail Williams loved him too. Proctor and Abby …show more content…
They danced around and were carrying on. Dancing was against the rules of their beliefs so they would get into big trouble if anyone found out. Parris, a minister in the town, walked into the woods and saw them. All the girls ran screaming as they exited the forest. Abigail claimed that Tituba was using witchcraft to control them all. Abby uses Tituba as a scapegoat so that she does not get in trouble. Tituba gets whipped from Abby’s false accusations and she realizes that if she would not have used Tituba as a scapegoat she would have been the one who got whipped.
In The Crucible scapegoating is an important theme. Miller was comparing The Crucible to McCarthyism. People would each under the bus to escape the trouble they would be in if they admitted to be a communist when they were not even communist. It relates to The Crucible to when everyone was saying that they knew other people who were