.
Though she was married to a sinner, she lied only once throughout the book, .
only to protect her husband's name. She even remained with him after he had .
an affair with Abigail Williams. The only reason that Elizabeth was accused .
of being a witch is because Abigail wanted her dead so she could have Proctor .
for herself. Abigail and Mary set Elizabeth up by giving her a poppet with a .
needle stuck in it, representing witchcraft. Elizabeth eventually proved .
herself not guilty and kept her life.
Evil is shown many times over in The Crucible. The word evil represents .
almost every character in the play. The most evil person in the play was, of .
course, Abigail Williams. Though the townspeople seemed to favor her over the .
accused, she was the one that accused the people, knowing she was the one that .
committed the acts of witchcraft. Abigail even drank blood to kill Elizabeth .
Proctor because she wanted John Proctor for herself. Murder is about the most .
evil and immoral deed one could perform, and young Abigail was ready to .
consummate the act.
Another evil character in the play is Rebecca Nurse. She is, in fact, an .
older woman who dies with a good name and seems to be genuine. She is also .
considered to be an upper class citizen of that time. She appears to be an .
innocent and honest woman, but Arthur Miller's text says otherwise. In .
Miller's description of Rebecca he states:.
.Thomas Putnam's little daughter was the one who fell into a fit at the.
hearing and pointed to Rebecca as her attacker. To top it all, Mrs. Putnam.
-who is now staring at the bewitched child on the bed-soon accused Rebecca's spirit of "tempting her to iniquity," a charge that had more .
truth in it than Mrs. Putnam could know (26).
That excerpt from the text tells the readers that Rebecca Nurse is actually a .
witch and possibly sent her spirit out to Mrs. Putnam, trying to take her to .
the Devil.
