Who Is Abigail's Fault In The Crucible

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The Decision Vigilant On a slick rainy day in 1976, the German Grand Prix was planned to go ahead in the early afternoon. The torrential amount of rain sparked the attention of Ferrari’s driver, Niki Lauda. Niki called for a meeting to discontinue the race. His rival, James Hunt, known for his reckless and selfish but popular reputation, was able to sway the room to vote for the race to go on even when there was a predicted 22% chance that one of the drivers would not survive. As the chances showed, disaster struck. Only minutes after the first lap Niki had changed to slicks as it appeared that the track had become somewhat acceptable for racing, but that was far from the truth. As Niki approached a turn something in his car failed which resulted in him barreling into the wall causing …show more content…

She lies” (Miller 61). Judge Danforth made himself clear before asking the question that the court does not condone liars, also that Abigail's decision may result in Mary’s hanging. Abigail seemed next to unfazed about being concerned about her reputation but not about the chaos that she has been bringing to Salem. Abigail continues to push her lie even further when she begins to see “Mary” in the shape of a bird on the ceiling. Abigail begins screaming for the bird not to come down which the other girls join in as Abigail swayed the room in unison, with the heightened stress Abigail started to scream, “Mary, please don't hurt me” (Miller 69). Once it ended, Abigail and her destructive decision to sway the room into faking led to Mary’s downfall as she was presumably imprisoned for a very long time due to perjury. But unconsequently, Abigail went on to steal money and leave the town of Salem, leaving the morale close to nothing. In Arthur Millers, The Crucible, Follows closely behind Abigail’s character as throughout the show she continually shows her destructive behavior for her own self

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