The Crucible Love Triangle

In the play The Crucible we find ourselves in a love triangle. This is between Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and Elizabeth Proctor. It is all over a silly man, that and getting caught for doing what is believed that a few teenaged girls were not being the proper girls that fit in this time frame. This was strongly frowned upon. Something that we realize as we read the play is that there is a major role between two women and this keeps both the trials and the issues alive.
Elizabeth is a mother and a wife, she has two boys and her husband was John Proctor. They were not the typical townsfolk. She had keep what is referred as a cold house. This meaning that she was not the proper wife and this really strained on their relationship. It is prominent that the life for Elizabeth was not an easy ride. She was ill for a while and during this time Abigail had taken advantage and made the affair with John. There was pain and the need to feel loved between the two. In all honesty, Elizabeth is the victim. In all truth, she was the wife of the man that Abigail wanted. Elizabeth was the target for the scored woman.

Abigail only being a teenager, an orphan and not having a family of her own.

She worked for the Proctor family which back in this time frame this was not uncommon. We do not have the full story behind any of the characters in the play. Although we are given important information. Abigail being rejected by John and fired from her services at the Proctor’s home. She still believed that she loved John. She had the mindset of a psychopath. As we have learned after the truth began to come out and the true reason she called for Elizabeth, she became very defensive in her reactions. This should have stopped when the truth of the affair came

out.
Elizabeth and Abigail both had a major role in the play, they were both strong leads and gave the play life to the play. They were different in the mind but strong in the lead. It is your typical good guy bad guy scenario. They both had motive but the motive was different. Abigail had the motive of revenge, to not get caught in the act of dancing in the woods. She felt like there was so much to loose there is a possibility of that and then there is the possibility of none. Abigail was used to getting her way and when she did not she was willing to kill and play with witchery and poor Elizabeth was in the middle of as well as many others there was a lot of death over a 16 year old whom did not get her way.
The parts of both of the female leads were important not only for the play but for the real life event as well. The important part of it all is that the whole ordeal was to kill Elizabeth so Abigail could have John. The importance of Elizabeth was to protect and love John. Abigail just wanted him for the simple fact that she could not have him so she wanted him more. It is like a prey and predator. You can not have one without the other. We could not have Abigaile without Elizabeth and without either one we would not have learned how dangerous a woman scorned is. The girls do not realize that this whole story is about revenge.