In Arthur Miller’s play about the Salem Witch Trials, “The Crucible,” the character of Abigail Williams is the catalyst for a chain of events that will result in the deaths of 20 people, executed for the “crime” of practicing witchcraft. A sympathetic figure in that she was orphaned and now lives with the Reverend Parris and his family, including nine-year-old daughter Betty, and clearly occupies a lower rung on the local...
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