Abigail Relates to Fire

Tiny things in the world around us are being compared to everyday situations and people we face. The comparisons are as simply as an orange being round like the earth, or emotional as to say the heavy rain drops are like the tears I cry every night in place of the hurt I constantly feel in my heart. In the Play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail is definitely the fire that keeps the momentum of the play at an utmost high.In the play Miller uses Abigail to show the destruction of false accusations on a community.
Fire what an amazing element of nature, its flaming flamboyant colors are easy to catch ones eye. While consuming it it's charming appeal will easily inspire you to bow down to its every command in desire to stay out of harms way. Abigail says, " Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it;" Abigail is not afraid to take drastic measures to assure her innocence. Firemen will do all they can to put out a fire, but once it is out of control they can simply look from a far in astonishment and do what they can to potentially put out the fire and stay out of harms way. The same is for Abigail. She is an astonishing young lady that has a way of charming others. She shows us examples of this throughout the play. In order for her to be engaged in an affair with a happily married man name John Proctor she would have had to be charming and an attention grabber. Abigail has a thing about her that makes the other girls in the Puritan society follow and mock her every word. In Act III Abigail says, "Oh, please, Mary! Don't come down." Once Abigail started faking that a spirit was attacking her the other girls, Susanna Walcott for example, immediately follows saying "Her claws, she's stretching her claws". No one wants to be on a bad accord with Abigail. In Act I she threatens to kill her friends if they spoke a word of what really is happening in the woods. No one wants to cross Abigail the wrong way. What does everyone usually think of when you mention fire? Maybe the devil, death, or a demolisher will ring a bell? The two: fire, and Abigail can relate to the devil. Fire is supposedly what the devil manifest in and during the play that is exactly what Abigail is(the devil on earth) the two goes hand in hand. Fire is sometimes used to demolish buildings, paper, and old boxes. Abigail is like a human fire who went through the Puritan society and weaves out many lives by planting false accusations of people being witches in the courts. The good thing about fire is that if you take away its main elements which keep it going it is no longer a threat to society. Abigail is a major threat to the society until Danforth takes back power and finally puts an end to accepting the false information from Abigail. Once he took back his power the poor Abigail realized she was no longer fearful to others.
Everything has its own personal characteristics whether living or not, and that is the biggest difference between Abigail and fire. Abigail is capable of having emotions, and a sense of knowing the ways in which she has hurt the people around her. Abigail has feelings against Elizabeth Proctor that drives her to introduce pain and suffering in her life. When fire consumes someone's house and destroys everything they have it has no feelings or emotions that plays a part in it, everything is due to nature. Fire has good qualities Abigail doesn't. During the play Abigail does nothing good, although for fire it is different. It can be used to cook, destroy old papers, and keep you warm.
In the play The Crucible Miller uses Abigail to show use how justice is not always serve to the innocent. Through Abigail, Miller is proving that the cliche "good always prevails" is false. Abigail's villainous lies destroys many lives during the Puritan society. The comparison of fire to Abigail allows me to see all the characteristics of Abigail that makes Miller such a success in showing the reader how destructive she is in the community.