The Crucible, Post 2: Terrible Lying

The entire conflict in this book could have been very simply put to rest if it weren't for some lying adolescent girls. Starting with Betty and Ruth's "illness" to get out of a beating, the pattern of lies never ceased. I don't often hate characters in books but if there ever were one to hate it would be Abigail Williams. She caused confessions of being associated with the devil (which is not such a big deal now, but back then it certainly was) or death upon several innocent men and women all over a boy--a boy who happens to be a married man. Abigail and her following irritated me to no end throughout the play. They seemed to be playing some sort of game; only they didn't realize just how dangerous it was.