Abigail Warren In The Crucible

Fear helps determine who is powerful and powerless in a society. We may not know it but It is all around us. Although we may not be able to see it I’m sure we have all felt this happen to us at one point in our lives. Arthur Miller’s novel The Crucible helps portray this by creating many situations where power is either gained or lost within the book. One major character that uses to fear to gain power is Abigail Warren. She is the leader of her friend group which makes her the most powerful. Abby often inflicts fear on to others to ensure that she doesn’t lose her power and maintains her high social status. Abigail causes her friend Mary Warren to experience fear when Abby and the girls accuse her of witchery to the court. “Children, a very augur bit will now be turned into

Proctor tried to argue his case to the judge in hope that he could defend himself and turn the blame towards Abby. He tried to do that by admitting that he cheated on his wife with Abby in the past. Proctor admitted his affair because he thought it would help the judge to see that Abby was faking everything. “She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave!” (Miller 110) This shows that Abby causes John to fear her because he believes that she has the power to make his wife disappear. The concept of affairs relates to a previous article we read earlier in class, If You Want To Save Your Marriage After An Affair Read This by, Brittany Wong. In the article, it says to end all contact with your affair partner after the affair. “It should go without saying that you need to break off contact with the other woman or man. But you also need to ‘fess up if they reach out to you, said Madden.” (Wong 2) One reason John Proctor is having a lot of trouble with Abigail is because he did not end all contact with his affair partner; Abby. Although he did not directly reach out to her, Abby continued to talk to him and he was not honest with his wife about