What Are The Villains In The Crucible

The Crucible consists of many characters and most of them have a very descriptive personality. There are many villains in the play that only bring suffering to others. The biggest villain is Abigail Williams. She is Reverend Parris’s seventeen year old niece. Of the major characters she is clearly the main villain of the play. All throughout the book, Abigail is seen telling lies and manipulating her friends to get her own way. Her lies and manipulations get to a point where she gets nineteen people sent to their deaths. Her motivations never seem more complex than simply loving Proctor and getting rid of Elizabeth. The book is basically driven on Abigail trying to hide their relationship. The book begins in Rev. Parris’s home where his daughter

is comatose. The reason being she spent the night before with other girls led by Abigail doing spells in an attempt to perform a ritual. All this to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor and have John Proctor for herself with no one between them. That is not all though, she is cold heartless girl who will do anything to get Proctor’s love again. For example when she was with Tituba and the girls, she drank a charm to kill Elizabeth. This is where the reader starts to change their view on her right from the beginning. She drinks chicken blood and will do whatever it takes even if it has to do with spirits, just to get Proctor’s love. Then she starts going overboard and threatens the girls not to mention anything about what happened. This is where they start following Abigail.
The girls are in court. Judge Danforth does not want to believe the girls when they say the had nothing to do with the devil. Of course, who would believe them? John Proctor gets mad Abigail is playing games and shockingly reveals to the court about their affair. He asks his wife Elizabeth to confirm but she denies it and ultimately dooms John Proctor. He is placed under arrest while the girls are faking possession by the devil. Judge Danforth is convinced by their charade.
At this point in the book, John Proctor is in jail awaiting execution with his wife Elizabeth. Since she is pregnant, she will wait to be killed. Many others involved are also incarcerated, such as Tituba (Slave) and Rebecca Nurse. In order to avoid the towns backlash of these executions, Rev. Hale and Parris try to get confessions to get them off the hook. Everyone but John Proctor choose NOT to lie. In order for him to live, Judge Danforth wants a written confession from John Proctor. But he soon realizes his name is all he has, and does not want to let that go. In the end, John Proctor is sentenced to death because he rips up his confession. THe book ends with him seconds away from death.