Can a jealous girl manipulate an entire justice system to hang the man she "loved"? Unfortunately, John Proctor's life has come to this point in Arthur Miller's The Crucible because of a jealous seventeen-year-old girl, Abigail Williams, with whom he has been having an affair. We begin the story with the town's local reverend discovering that his daughter had been dancing witchcraft with his slave, Tituba, in the woods. This leads Abigail to lead the girls in manipulating the city's justice system to hang everyone she doesn't like or is jealous of. John Proctor tries to fight back, but Abigail has the justice system between her fingers and they won't listen. This play is an obvious illustration that jealousy can cause people to do horrible things to get the things they want. The Putnams may not be a very obvious indicator of the theme of jealousy in The Crucible, but they are a great example of people who are both jealous of others and jealous of others. The Putnams make many people jealous of their money as they are the only people able to purchase land and other luxury items. However, the Putnams are also jealous of people who can have children. In this scene, Mrs. Putnam says to Rebecca Nurse, “But I have to! Do you think it is God's work that you should never lose a child, or even a grandchild, and that I bury all but one? There are wheels within wheels in this village, and five within fires!” (1,568-572). Mrs. Putnam has had 7 miscarriages and 1 girl who is now haunted. Rebecca, on the other hand, has never lost a child or grandchild. Mrs. Putnam is very jealous that she has not produced very healthy offspring while others have. While the Putnams are jealous of others, many people…are the focus of the card…is the case because Abigail accused Elizabeth of witchcraft. As he appears in court to discuss his wife's sentence, Proctor says, "....You think of dancing with me on my wife's grave!.."(3.863-864). By saying this, she means that Abigail wishes Elizabeth would die so that she, Abigail, can marry him because she still loves him. During the show's final scene, Danforth says, "Hang them high above the city!" (4,757). This is a direct result of Abigail. Abigail was jealous of the love John and Elizabeth shared, so she wanted a dead one. He got it in the end, though now he'll never get Proctor either. Abigail's jealousy has caused so much chaos and destruction in the small town of Salem; he killed countless people, had many thrown in prison for no apparent reason, and manipulated large numbers of people to get revenge on the man he loved and his wife.