In Arthur Miller's The Crucible Abigail is the most manipulative character. She is a sixteen year old girl who is a very manipulative girl and wants everything done her way. I honesty think she is kind of crazy because she really doesn't have any guidance since both of her parents died. Abby also wants to be the center of attention since she really doesn't get much attention from her uncle Paris. Abby is the leader of her group and the girls fallow what ever she does since everyone in the town thinks she’s a saint.
Abby will do anything to get her way no matter what it takes. Some people might say that she is acting like this because he parents died; Proctor broke her heart, and her uncle Paris doesn't really care for her. As for myself I think that she still has no reason for her to acting like a manipulative little girl. How can she say that Tituba made her drink the blood when Abby was the one who asked Tituba if the could go to the woods and conjure, and sing Barbados songs. Betty said that Abby took a poison to kill John Proctors wife. “Sometimes I wake and find myself standing in the open doorway and not a stitch on my body! I always hear her laughing in my sleep. I hear her singing Barbados songs and tempting me with” (Miller, 44).
But God made my face; you cannot want to tear my face. Envy is a deadly sin, Mary"(Miller, 115).
This girl will make up any lie just to get people to be on her side even if it means that that person has to die in order for her to get away with it. Even if what ever she’s saying is not true people still believe her since her uncle is the Reverend of their church, so everyone thinks she’s a very good girl and
does nothing wrong. I guess in a way I feel both bad for her and think she’s crazy because it must really be hard to grow up without both parents, and her very first love broke her heart. She must have gone thru a lot of hard things and all by herself because her uncle really didn't pay much attention to her. Either way I still think she should just have said all the truth and not have
involved anyone else in this. Maybe if she did say the truth not so many people would have gotten killed.
In conclusion as one can see Abigail has problems with herself, and when you have a problem with yourself you have a problem with everybody else. As you can see from this she is evil because of all she did like when she saw Marry Warren making a poppet for Elizabeth. And saw when Marry put a needle in the poppet’s belly so she thought that it was a good idea to stab herself with one to make it look like Elizabeth stabbed her. This girl needs serious mental help with all she has done she is not very saintly at all.