Who Is Abigail Deceiving In The Crucible

The Crucible play takes place in Salem, Massachusetts set around the mid to late 1600’s. Inside this peculiar little town most people are very religious and believe in the Puritan religion. For a little background Puritans do not believe or participate in activities like dancing and reading novels. Growing up as a little kid in the Puritan religion could seem like you are being hidden or kept away from activities that would alter your beliefs towards how your religion teaches them. Throughout this play one of the main characters is named Abigail. While reading the play, and before watching the movie, I pictured Abigail as a girl who would appear sweet, but she is also very mischievous and deceiving. So the question is whether or not this is just who Abigail is or if she is pressured by the community to be how
During this part of the play characters are filled with hysteria and it seems as though madness has struck the town. Abigail makes accusations after all of the other girls have already accused many people in the town. I believe Abigail started to accuse others in the town of witchcraft so that she could have attention and was also pressured into it. Since everyone else was making accusations Abigail would have needed to also accuse people or else they might have started to question her or accused her of being a witch.
Finally, I believe that Abigail is not who she is because of choice but instead because she is a victim of the society. Abigail never really started anything by herself or did anything first she was just a follower of the other girls in the town. This was a very strange time in Salem filled with mass craze and hysteria so the pressure would have been very high because no one wanted to be accused of witchcraft and for that reason I think Abigail would not be who her character is in the play if it were not for the other