Abigail Made The Town Analysis

Abigail made the town basically turn on each other. The whole situation could have ended a long time before it escalated. This character dragged this on a little too far. Abigail's actions made everyone believe her, she was very convincing. Not only was it her but she had the other girls on her side to help prove she saw spirits or that she would be getting attacked by some.

When all the girls are in the room and Betty is laying on the bed acting as if she was put under some type of curse. Abigail tried to wake her up before anyone could believe that Betty was cursed. Once everyone is worried about Betty and wants to know what is happening, Abigail is getting jealous of all the attention she was getting. She had already pointed fingers at Tituba, now that Tituba is in the room getting all the attention; abigail then does not like that and exaggerates what really happens and says, “Sometimes I wake and find myself standing in the open doorway and not a stitch on my body! I always hear her laughing in my sleep. I hear her singing her barbados songs and tempting me with-” (Miller 930-933). When really, none of that really happens to Abigail.

Then Tituba kind of does the same and start to point fingers at other people. She then has all the …show more content…
Since there is no proof that they were doing witchcraft, they just took Abigail’s word for it. Sometimes the victims cannot even save themselves and lie about doing witchcraft to stay alive. No one really gets into trouble if they do admit it. Once they accuse Mary she tries to come clean about it saying that everyone is lying there is no evil spirits. Abigail easily played it off, and was pretending she was getting attacked by Mary’s evil spirit. “But God made my face; you cannot want to tear my face. Envy is a deadly sin… Oh Mary this is a black art to change your shape. No, I cannot , I cannot stop my mouth; it's God's work i do”(Miller