How Did Abigail Williams Cause John Proctor's Death

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In the story The crucible there were many people and altercations that lead up to John Proctor’s death. He got into many altercations with people, especially Abigail Williams, which ended up leading up to her killing a bunch of people including John Proctor. There were many things the filmed showed that lead up to John Proctor’s death. The first thing was when Mary Warren accused him of having something to do with witchery. Then it was when Goody proctor didn’t tell the truth about her husband and Abigail Williams having an affair. This last person was that was the whole problem in this and was the main cause of john’s death was Abigail Williams, she started everything in this whole Mass hysteria.
First person that partially causes the death for John Proctor is Mary Warren John’s maid. She’s the one who also got kinda carried away with blaming people not as bad as abigail, but it also seemed like she wanted to fit in. She got carried away because when john was trying to get her to …show more content…

Part of the reason was because her and john had an affair at one point, John’s wife Goody proctor knew about it and fired her and john ended the affair and was trying to make it up to his wife and show her that he is a good man, and abby thought that John still loved her deep down in his heart, so her intentions were to get the court to believe that john’s wife had the devil appear in her and she and the girls seen it. But that plan backfired when someone snitched and made a big mess of things. Another example, she got caught up in blaming so many people that the girls thought it was okay to blame anyone so he got accused by Mary.
In conclusion, Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and Goody Proctor were responsible for John’s death. This whole mass hysteria that was created was initially because of john, because he wasn’t in love with abigail, so he was bound to be dead. In these type of stories there’s no happy

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