Abigail's Independence In The Crucible

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The Crucible

“Shut up! All of you. We dance. That is all, and mark this, if anyone breathe a word or the edge of a word about the things, I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring with me a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.”(Abigail William). Abigail is warning the girls if they told anyone in town that she will physical harm them when the sun have gone down. Abigail and the girls were dancing in the wood, when Parris caught the girls in the act. This incident have started the witchcraft trial that gave Abigail the power she have during the play. In the play “The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller, the witch trials empower Abigail through bestowing the capacity individuals with social to show independence, social power, and the ability to defy communal rules. The independence that Abigail shows was not influenced or controlled but she is thinking and acting for herself. Abigail’s independence is her power because it shows that she can think for herself. Abigail says to her Betty, “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 …show more content…
Abigail starts accusing Mary Warren and then the other girls followed her lead. During the court proceeding Mary Warren begins to tell her story to the court, when Danforth turns towards Abigail to ask if any of it is true she gets this scared look on her face and says, “A wind, a cold wind, has come. Her eyes fall on Mary Warren.” The other girls saw her and quickly followed her example. Abigail uses her social power to get the other girls to follow whatever she is going to do to the people they want to accuse. To accomplish this Abigail will not let anyone go against her because she knows that she has the other girls to follow her direction and stop the accusers from accusing
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