the cruciable and how abigail wiliams cheats
...ituba, who taught them how to dance in the woods and to conjure up spirits. She motivated not only her friends, but also herself to practice witchcraft, and she drank chicken blood to make a charm out of jealousy against John Proctor's wife (Page 19). Even though she was deeply in love with John, it was wicked for her to try many tactics to steal John away from Elizabeth. For instance, she told Proctor that he still loved her deep inside of his heart and that he was being a coward for going back to his cold, bitter wife (Pg22). She said that once she kills Elizabeth, they would be free to love one another. She felt that if it wasn't for Elizabeth, John would come back to her. She thought her relationship with him was sincere while John believed that it was just lust. "I saw your face when she put me out, and you loved me then and you do now!" (Page 21) In addition, she started questioning John when they were alone together in Betty's room, " I have a sense for heat, John and yours has drawn me to my window, and I have seen you looking up, burning in your loneliness." She tried to instigate John's feeling, and gossiped about Elizabeth to persuade him to come back to her, "Oh, I marvel how such a strong man let such a sickly wife be - she is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold, sniveling woman and you bend to her! Let turn you like - "(page 24). She was wicked; she planned a mischievous plot to accuse Elizabeth and tried to steal John Proctor away from her. Abigail was a victim of society. The Crucible dealt with a stringent community where people were narrow-minded. The church did not tolerate the slightest difference, but they rather preferred all the Christians to be conformists. The church was obviously against the devil, and at the same time it did not tolerate any leisure activities such as dancing. From a historical viewpoint, the young girls in colonial society were given little or no freedom. Children were expected to be mature adults at an extremely young age, and also they were not allowed to speak until they were asked to speak. They were expected to be well mannered and behav...