Abigail's strengths include determination and intelligence. She is determined both to win back her former lover, John Proctor, as well as to exact revenge on any in her community who have impugned her reputation. It seems likely that, once Abigail saw the power granted to Tituba to make accusations, she realized that she, too, could possess such a power, as she began, cleverly, to make accusations immediately afterward herself. She is...
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