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Who Was Responsible For Abigail's Death In The Crucible

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In the play “The Crucible”, I believe Abigail Williams was the one who was responsible for the deaths of the people who were wrongly convicted and hanged. Abigail was a young girl who was obsessed with a man named John Proctor. She was so in love with him, that she would have done anything she could to be with him. She was caught doing something she should not have been doing, and was willing to do whatever she had to do to keep from getting in trouble. One night Abigail’s uncle, Parris, found her along with Tituba and other young girls, dancing in the forest. This is what began the series of lies the girls were going to tell. Parris asked Abigail what they were doing in the forest and Abigail told him that all they were doing was dancing. …show more content…

She’d previously been his servant, and they’d had an affair. When Elizabeth Proctor, John’s wife, found out about the affair between the girl and her husband, she put Abigail out of her house. John then decided to end the affair and start trying to make things better between his wife and himself. But, Abigail was still in love and still wanted to be with John. She would do anything to get rid of Elizabeth and take her place in John’s life. This is the reason she went into the woods in the first place. She wanted to “cast a spell” and make John love her and only her. John came up to her and told her he knew she was lying about all the women being witches, and he told her to stop and leave him and his family alone. At this point Abby was mad that John no longer wanted to be with her, so she decided she’d frame Elizabeth as being a witch. She’d used Mary Warren, the Proctor’s new servant, to do it. Mary had made Elizabeth a poppet and stuck a needle in the stomach for safe keeping. When Abigail saw her do that, she knew that that was the perfect way to frame Elizabeth. Abby stuck herself in the stomach and told everyone that it was Elizabeth’s spirit that’d done it. So when they found Elizabeth with the poppet everyone assumed what Abigail said had to be

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