Abigail Williams is portrayed as a dishonest character in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. When Parris is in the room with Betty and Abigail, he is trying to figure out what could possibly be wrong with Betty. Abby assures to him that all the girls were doing in the forest the previous evening was dancing. She tells him, “It were sport” (11) and when the possibility of witchcraft is brought up, she says, “[they] never conjured spirits” (10). Abby later admits that Tituba and Ruth conjured spirits, then later still that she drank the chicken’s blood, but Tituba and Ruth “forced” her to. When all but the girls that were in the forest leave the room, Abby’s story changes yet again and it is revealed that she did participate in witchcraft. Her changing of stories is Abby’s way of lying to try and stay out of trouble. Even though her actions harm others, she continues to lie for her own good. One of Abby’s main goals is to get John Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, in trouble. She finds a way to frame her by sticking a needle into her stomach and saying it got there with a voodoo poppet that Mary gave to Elizabeth. When Cheever finds the doll, he explains, “Abigail were stabbed tonight; a needle were found into her belly” (76). This is an example of the extreme measures Abigail was willing to go to in order to please herself. Later in the play, one of Abigail’s friends, Mary Warren, is testifying against her. When Abby realizes this, she tells everyone in the room that Mary is sending her spirit, a little yellow bird that only she can see, to attack her. She screams, “Mary, please don’t hurt me!” (115) to nothing, making the adults think she actually sees the bird. Mary and the rest of the girls are the only ones that know Abby is just acting to keep herself out of trouble. Abigail’s dishonesty is so severe in the play that it causes much harm and even death to many other individuals in the play.