In my opinion, after reading the crucible and writing an
essay based upon it, I would actually think of Abigail as the outsider... Even though
she is a main central character, she is an outsider in many
ways:
Her parents were killed in front of her and she was
sent to the village at a young age; she is more provocative than all the other young
girls, making her seem more mature, and simultaneously seem to be, for lack of a better
phrase, on the outside looking in.
Moreover, her desire to
ruin Elizabeth Proctor's good name shows an evil, spiteful, vengeful nature that she
also uses to lure the other girls into pretending they can 'see' the devil in certain
villagers (use part of her speech in the first part where she threatens them in the
church about how she watched her parents die, "sharp knife"). This is not only
significant of the fact that she differs in the kind nature of others in the village,
but it also puts her in a position where she is on the outskirts of the devout Puritan
society.
In conclusion, you can use all these reasons and
develop them for your essay to show that just because she is a central character does
not necessarily mean she is not an outsider, on the contrary, she could not be
more of an outsider, and the previous reasons, among several other
reasons, can verify this and give evidence to this.
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