“ She [Elizabeth] wants me [Elizabeth] dead.” (Miller 60).

There seems to be a new chief in town and her name is Abigail. The seventeen year old girl seen to have the whole town at the type of her fingers and could do whatever she want with them. It seems that her main target is Mrs. Proctor, and nothing will stop her until she is dead. She will take down anyone in her way guilty or innocent. She is a young woman who believed in the false promise in John Procter. As a young girl she does not really realize the gravity that Procter was a phase that he moved on and she had to do the same. Now she is summiting everyone from Earth and Hell to get rid of Elizabeth. So, she could by the side of the man of her dream. Elizabeth knows she is after her and Procter does also. Elizabeth fearing that she will cry her name out in court begs of John to “ go and tell she’s a whore” (62). Also, take out all the false hopes in her mind.

“I will not be ordered… I am eighteen and a woman” (60).

Mary Warren was the girl no one had to worry about because she was a follower and seemed to be easily controlled is now not taking order from Procter anymore and running off and doing whatever she please. She could be under Abigail control, she could really be claiming her independence, or she has her own secret agenda. Many people in the novel seem to have alternate motive for doing what they doing. Maybe she might be smarter than anyone thinks and a way for her to become the leader of the pack. Nonetheless, the young women of the colony are starting a rebellion and the seemed not to know the seriousness of their actions.