Abigail Williams
... talking to Mercy in the room where Betty lay. Just as this happens, Mary Warren enters to discuss what they should do about Betty’s sickness. All of them are worried that they are going to be criticized by the people in the town. When Abigail tries to talk to Betty, she wails something about Abigail drinking blood from the goblet to kill Goody Proctor. Abigail threatens her and the other girls not to open their mouths about what they had seen. A quote from Abigail after hearing this from Betty was: “I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you . . .. I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!” Just as Mercy and Mary leave, John Proctor enters. Abigail tries with all of her might to get John Proctor to confess his love for her, but John wants nothing to do with her or their affair any longer. They had started having this affair when John Proctor’s wife had fallen sick. Abigail becomes hysterical to try and convince John Proctor to confess his love, yet he still refuses. In the next scene, Abigail is asked what was in the goblet that she had drunk from. It is reported that there was movement in the goblet. She quickly replies with the excuse that a frog had jumped into the kettle. Abigail grows nervous and says that all the events that had taken place in the forest had been in the hands of Tituba. This scene ends when Betty and Abigail are calling out names of all of those they want accused of these faceless acts. One of the women that Abigail accuses of witchcraft is Mary Warren. Cheever and Herrick enter to arrest Elizabeth Proctor because of the allegations of Abigail. Abigail claimed that Elizabeth had had poppets in her house in which she used for witchcraft. In court, Abigail, Betty, Mercy, and Mary are accused of being frauds. Through all the accusations, Abigail continues to stay firm with what she saw. John Proctor then screams Abigail out as whore in the middle of the courtroom. When he is asked to prove that Abigail is a whore, he tells the court of the affair and states that Abigail is trying to get revenge on Elizabeth because she is jealous of the fact that Elizabeth is John’s wife. Abigail is vanished from the town and is accused of stealing thirty-one pounds from her uncle, Reverend Parris, but nothing is done about this stolen property. * * * In my eyes and the eyes of many others, Abigail is but a trou...