Gregory Maguire once said: “People who pretend to be evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. We should be wary of people who claim they are good, or even better than the rest of us. The manipulation of young girls, Reverend Parris and the Procters will illustrate that Abigail Williams is the epicenter of all evil in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Abigail terrorizes young girls to prevent her own reputation from being destroyed. After confessing to Reverend Parris that she had danced in the forest, she pleaded, telling the little girls: "Let one of you say a word, or the shadow of a word, about other things, and I will come to you in the darkness of some. terrible night and I will bring you a sharp judgment that will make you shudder” (Miller 1268). Abigail understands that if the truth is revealed about her drinking the charm to kill Elizabeth Procter, she will be sentenced to death, which is evident by the way she speaks to Mary Warren and Mercy Lewis while Betty does not respond. not after being threatened by Abigail. The depths she went ...