The Crucible
delivers the idea of how twisted living in a theocratic government can be. I
don’t believe doctors tried hard enough to discover what truly happened to
Betty; since her condition was incurable, they quickly assumed she was a witch.
I believe Abigail is guilty for more than she lets on, she gets defensive over
her wrong doings and has lead an affair with Mr. Putnam. Abigail is also
supposed to have a horrid reputation, from what the townspeople speak of her. Reverend
Parris suspects Abigail aren’t as innocent as she tries to appear; he believes
she had something to do with Betty’s condition. Rev. Parris caught the girls in
the forest with his slave Tituba, dancing around a fire. He assumes they were
conducting witchcraft. Betty’s condition came along shortly after, but Abigail
lies about what they were actually doing in the forest. Abigail used Tituba for
her own sinister uses. The author of The Crucible creatively uses a string of coincidental
outcomes and lead them to only one possible answer: witchcraft.
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