

To protect herself and the other girls from being hanged, Abigail has to make up falsehoods and accuse innocent men and women of conjuring the devil. Abigail, the ringleader of the girls, admits to only dancing in the forest. Parris questions Abigail Williams, who is Parris’s niece, about the events that happened in the forest.

Parris calls in witchcraft expert, Reverend Hale.

Rumours of witchcraft start to float around the town while a herd gathers around Betty’s bed. Reverend Parris’s daughter, Betty, falls deep into a coma-like state. While dancing, Reverend Parris catches them. In The Crucible, a group of girls go dancing in the forest late at night with a Barbados slave Tituba. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play that tells a partially fictionalised and dramatised story of the Salem witch trials that occurred in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 16. Examples of abuse of power in the Crucible: Abigail.
