2016-04-17

Abigail Williams Power of Falsehood
In American playwright Arthur Miller’s 1953 play, The Crucible, the author dramatizes and partially fictionalized the events that occurred in the Province of Massachusetts called the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials within the novel consisted of a group of young girls whom decided to frame several townspeople of witchcraft, leading these accused persons into being murdered or jailed. These false accusations against the innocent townspeople may have been done by these young girls, but their leader Abigail Williams made all of the calls, whether it were in accusing or within the actual trials. In The Crucible Abigail’s power of falsehood has grant...

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