Is Abigail a Sinner
...o something soiled. What signified that remark?" Abigail "She hates me, uncle, she must, for I would not be her slave. It’s a bitter woman, a lying, cold, sniveling woman, and I will not work for such a woman!"(Pg.12) Abigail was not thrown out because she wouldn’t be a slave. She was thrown out because she slept with John Proctor. Parris, however reluctantly, accepts her explanation for herself and ends up having to go downstairs to lead the people in a psalm. By this time Mercy Lewis and Mary Warren, the other ‘dancers’, have arrived. With the other adults gone they talk about what happened. During their conversations you find out that Abigail is somewhat the leader of the girls, "No, he’ll be comin’ up. Listen, now; if they be questioning us, tell them we danced - I told him as much already." (Pg.18) you also find out that Mercy was the one dancing naked in the woods; that they conjured up Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters; that Abigail drank blood; and that the blood was suppose to be a charm to kill Goody Proctor. Betty was finally up and was arguing with Abigail about the whole ‘blood drinking’ issue when Abigail gets angry and threatens the girls, "Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. and you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! Now, you - sit up and stop this!" (Pg.20) After this fit of rage, John Proctor enters the room and you see just how much she wants him when the girls leave and they are alone. She wants him to pity her; to give her a soft word, but he loves his wife too much and will not. Then Abigail goes to tears and proclaims, "I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! John, pity me, pity me!" (Pg.25) At this point in time, Abigail is willing to do anything to have John. Which includes more lying. This is where the story gets real interesting, because now everything is going downhill. The girls are accusing the women of Salem of witchery. The first one’s to be accused are Tituba, and Goody Good, however, now that it’s started Abigail and the girls can’t stop now. They accuse even more people such as Goody Osburn, Bridget Bishiop, George Jacobs, Goody Howe, Martha Bellows, Goody Sibber, Alice Barrow, Goody Hawkins, Goody Bibber, and Goody Booth. All of this started and escalated because of Abigail’s doing. Abigail never stops lying. She wants John, she desires John, she loves John; and she wont stop until she can have him. Thanks to Abigail, and her ‘assistants’, a big court case gets started and, by Abigail’s lead, more people are accused. Then finally Abigail gets to Elizabeth Proctor. Mary Warren, the new servant-girl to the Proctors, had made Goody Proctor a poppet. She had sown it while sitting in the courthouse. She had placed a needle in the poppet for safe keeping; Abigail knew this, and took full advantage. Abigail stuck a needle in her stomach and pulled it out during dinner one day; claiming that Goody Proctor’s spirit had pushed it in. Then some people ...