Could Proctor & Abigail's adultery be responsible for some acts that happened during the prosecutions in the Salem witchtrials? One might say not, while another could say it plays a great part in the story.

John Proctor's past adultery with Abigail Williams could be considered partially responsible for John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor being accused of being witches in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible". "The Crucible" is a story about how a young woman (Abigail Williams) falls in love with a married man (John Proctor) and will eventually do whatever it takes to take his wife's (Elizabeth Proctor) place. Everything gets out of hand and suddenly there supposedly is witchcraft in Salem, and the children involved in this all lie there way out, and accuse

innocent villagers of devilish work.

One obvious reason Abigail Williams has for blaming John Proctor's wife, Elizabeth Proctor, of witchcraft, is the fact that she is madly in love with John Proctor. Elizabeth knows this, too, and has even caught her husband with Abigail once. She then got rid of her as a maid, and put her on the road. When she is talking to her uncle, Reverend Parris, she even mentions that "She [Elizabeth Proct

Once the word "witchcraft" has fallen in Salem, the girls who were dancing in the woods with Tituba realize that there is no way out of this ludicrous situation without punishment, unless they pretend that they certainly were troubled by other's spirits. They need to stick to the same story, otherwise the village will immediately notice that it is all a fraud. But, because of the hysteria, they can get away with the dancing because they blame it on witchcraft, and witches whom they appoint. The most powerful ones in Salem, for example the Reverend and the judges, do not seem to notice that they actually push the children in the direction of appointing supposed witches, as they have done with Abigail, and later on with Tituba. They make it seem right to accuse others of witchcraft even if there is nothing wrong with the children. At the end of Act Two, Thomas Putnam gives the children who are present ideas of whom to blame, "Sarah Good? Did you ever see Sarah Good with him? Or Osburn?" (page 46). By doing this, he sets a very bad example for the children: he shows them it is very easy to blame others to save yourself.

Proctor as her victim, saying "... you are the devil's man! ..." (page 118).

she would be punished and she certainly would not go to Heaven.

When Abigail Williams

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