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Surname 1 Name Professor Course Date Who to blame in crucible Crucible is one of the interesting plays by Miller. Miller’s play “the crucible” is kind of parable which he uses to explain the kind witches happening in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The play rotates about a number of characters like Abigail, Becky, Elizabeth, John Proctor and many others like Mary. In the play, Abigail takes the role of the main character, she appears in large portions of the play especially in the first and the third act. Abigail is very young, that is, 17 years whose parents died sometimes back and in the introduction of the play we see her being a worker John Proctors home. However, Abigail is very much vindictive and mean and in most of the events in the play performs accusations and lies that leave the other characters in the play hurt. In the play, Abigail causes a lot of confusions about witches and through her accusations and lies, people are very much stranded about the witches in Salem which results to arresting of very many people in Salem who are being accused as witches. As a result of this confusion, many characters in the play could be blamed for witches in Salem. However, the actions which Abigail does in the play lives her worth to be blamed to be the main cause of the witches in Salem. However, behind every blames, there are reasons behind the blames which act as the driving force towards the blames.

Surname 2 The evidence is seen even from the start of the play where Abigail is seen to try killing Elizabeth during the start of the play by use of a curse. She attempts this because she wants a relationship with John Proctor back since John had insisted in calling off their relationship and she wasn’t for the idea of parting with John This is evident on page 23 where John says that, "Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I'll ever reach for you again." She ends up acting her desperateness in love for John and tries to show up her venom in the early part of the play by attempting to kill. To add on the same, it is clear that Abigail attempted the killings because she thought that after the death of Elizabeth, John would automatically marry her. This show the Abigail could kill to gain what she wants for her life and hence she is just equal to a witch. In the third act, that’s is on page 103, Abigail raises another is issues of witches in Salem. This was during an encounter with Mary Warren and Danforth. Abigail fixes the other characters in the play by lying doing, facing up to the sky and pretending to ask for strength from heaven that will help her from being a harlot to John Proctor. She ends up making Danforth more concerned as to why she has to ask for strength or is it because John had been using her for sex and she says that she cannot answer because if she does then she will leave and never come back. “If I must answer that, I will leave and I will not come back again!” This creates some tension and a lot of suspicion towards John Proctor thinking that he is probably a witch. No doubt that Abigail should be blamed for the witch in Salem. Another scenario as to why Abigail should be blamed for witches in Salem is in Act 1 page.46. At this point, Abigail is in the woods with her fellow friends. Bad things happen out there in the woods and Hale comes in and tries to enquire who had caused all that to happen. As always, Abigail is used in putting people in trouble and therefore strikes to responding to Hake

Surname 3 before Tituba utters a word of response. Abigail does not hesitate and thus she puts Tituba in trouble by accusing to be behind all that that had involved in all the bad things which involved creating and conjuring potions. Tituba is low than Abigail in the social ladder and therefore regardless of how much she explains, nobody would listen to her. This force Tituba to give in and ends up confessing about the scenario even though she deeply knew she had done nothing but it’s only that she couldn’t fight a losing battle. After she confesses, Abigail and Betty still say that they wanted to do their confessing too after which they go into an “orgy of uttering out names of townspeople as witches as the curtain falls.” (“On their ecstatic cries.”) This makes the people in the town realize more on the presence of witches in Salem but it was Abigail who was behind all this through accusations towards Tituba. This confirms to us that Abigail is worth to be blamed for witches in Salem. In Act 2, page. 69, Abigail gives us another reason as to why she has to be planned to be the reason for witches in Salem. This is evident in this act when Abigail throws herself to the ground in front of people like Cheever, Herrick, Hale, and Elizabeth during dinner and Parris house. She cries for pain and by a chance, needle pulls out of her hair and uses it as an excuse to accuse Elizabeth of witchcraft claiming that Elizabeth had fixed it and bewitched her. This convinces Cheever, Herrick, and Hell since they see some sense of witch in the scenario. However, they don’t end up arresting Elizabeth since they don’t have enough proof that Elizabeth is a witch. However, Abigail gives them a clue to the presence of witches and thus the blame for witches in Salem is worth to be placed on Abigail. Another evidence in the play is at the start of the play, that’s in the first act when she goes to the woods with her friends Betty, Parris, and Tituba for a dance. During this dance, it happens that Betty faints in the process because she was sick and his uncle could not expect her to be in

Surname 4 the woods. Now that Abigail is the victim for this since she was responsible for taking care of Betty, she lies to her uncle who comes in that she fainted because Parris leaped into the bush so suddenly. She also brings up the story of spirits in the story creating the atmosphere of witches in Salem. Among the many characters in the play, Abigail is seen to be responsible for the creation of many atmospheres for the presence of witches in Salem. She does this through demonstrating in a bewitched way and accusing people of witches in a scenario that she is worth to be considered right. For this reason, I consider Abigail as the character to be blamed for the witches in Salem and not some other who she insulted....