Abby Williams In The Crucible

Abigail Williams is selfish, manipulative, and a compulsive liar. The entire play wouldn’t exist, if Abby hadn’t have been so jealous and selfish. It was Abby’s fault that the girls were in the woods with Tituba trying to cast a spell on Elizabeth Proctor, because Abby is in love with her husband John. The whole reason the Salem Witch Trials even started was because Abby was in love with a man that wasn’t her’s to have in the first place, and she wanted to do anything possible to get rid of his wife so that she could replace her. When Abby’s uncle, Reverend Parris, catches the girls dancing in the woods, Abby goes into defense mode. All she cares about is how she can get herself out of the mess she is in, and how she can bring down Elizabeth Proctor and all the other people she doesn't like in the midst of things. Somehow the only logical response is to blame witchcraft for everything, and oddly enough the townspeople are believing it! I find it a little ridiculous how Abby is actually getting away with all of this. Innocent people are getting accused of a crime that is punishable by death, and Abby seems to feel no remorse or guilt at all
Without her we would have no plot, and no actual historic event that happened in real life. In order to have a good story with a good plot, you need the perfect antagonist, and that is most definitely Abigail Williams. So if The Crucible was just a play then Abby would be kinda cool, cause again if it wasn’t for her we would have no plot twists, or anything interesting. But since The Crucible is based on the Salem witch trials which happened in real life and that Abby Williams is a real person, I feel strongly that Abby Williams is not a good person and not cool at all. But then again, not everybody in the world is purely good nor purely evil. There will always be a mix of the two. Abby Williams just happened to dabble on the dark