If people try and tell the truth about what actually happened in the woods Abigail threatens them with a “pointy reckoning”. She lies to try and cover up the fact that she had an affair with John Proctor and that she loves him.

The start of the chaos was implemented by Abigail when Parris found the girls dancing in the woods. Abigail doesn’t want people to judge her actions so Abigail says “What look do you give me? I’ll not have such looks”. She did this by accusing all of the innocent people and Tituba as being witches and that he made her put that spell on Elizabeth Proctor. Joseph McCarthy initiated the Red Scare, and in the book Abigail initiated the Salem Witch Hunt because she had a fear of witchcraft. Abigail doesn’t want to confess to what happened in the woods and that she loves John Proctor and tried to cast a spell on his wife in the woods. Once everyone finds out about this in the woods, she attempts to hide her behavior because it would reveal her affair with Proctor and Abigail claims “You loved me John Proctor”. In act one when Parris found the girls in the woods, dancing, Abigail tried to blame it on witchcraft, just like Joseph McCarthy started the fear of communism using this fear to increase his own influence. Arthur Miller uses Abigail Williams is lying in the courtroom and to others in The Crucible to show the lying and unfair treatment of McCarthyism there are many situations where Abigail Williams lies to try and protect herself from getting in trouble and blaming innocent people for witchcraft. When people would be accused in court, they would say their friend’s name out of fear which would lead to this person being questioned. In McCarthyism, it is the government trying to “rat” out all the communists names, but is accusing innocent people, just like Abigail trying to reveal all of the ̈witches ̈. Abigail starts a lie that what happened in the woods was witchcraft, and once everyone thinks that it is witchcraft Abigail starts accusing other innocent people. Abigail Williams is a fifteen year old girl that was one of the initial accusers about witchcraft and the Salem Witch Trials.

Everyone has lied at some point in their lives, but usually not a big lie that could cost someone’s life once one thing is said about it lies are always exposed, revealing the truth beneath them.

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