Mary Warren is an important character in Arthur Miller’s play, THE CRUCIBLE. Much of the action in Act III revolves around Mary’s testimony in court. She is a kind and basically honest girl who tries to do the right thing, saving her friends from harm. However, throughout Acts I and II, Mary is a follower who allows Abigail Williams to negatively influence her good judgment. To make matters worse, Mary is terrified of Abigail’s threats. Because of her weak will, the reader isn’t certain if Mary will
whipped for dancin’ and other things!”. This was said by Mary Warren in The Crucible. It shows two of her character traits, that she is anxious and honest. Mary Warren was a teenage girl caught in the wrong place at the wrong time while she was “just watching” her friends dance in the woods. Throughout the play she was very conflicted with whether she should tell the truth or follow what Abigail told her to do. I can relate to Mary Warren because we both can be anxious, we have tendencies to be a
person and get them to act unusually. Mary Warren makes the decision to switch between siding with the girls and with Proctor out of fear for her life, yet only some of her decisions are justified as only sometimes she was trying to make the right decision and others were to save herself. Mary Warren is justified in her decision to switch from the girls side to Proctor’s as she was trying to make the right decision even though her fear was holding her back. Mary Warren finds it very hard to side with
through Mary Warren. Women in Miller’s Salem, especially Mary Warren, are undoubtedly seen as inferiors to the men. The only way seen fit to deal with Mary when she is
Through the play, the character Mary Warren is depicted as a shy and powerless girl until she finally gains some control over the lives of people through her lies. This results in being labeled as an antagonist of the story, but she has traits similar to a protagonist which contradicts her character. In the end, Mary Warren is still a villain through her selfish and inconsiderate actions in the play. Mary Warren is a villainous character due to her poor choice of actions. Mary uses excuses to avoid trouble
the blame of the trials is surely Mary Warren. At the beginning of the play a group of girls decide to pretend to have been “witched” so as to avoid getting into any actual trouble within their community. Along with these girls who are pretending witchcraft has spread to their town, is Mary Warren. Initially, Mary is against faking such a heinous crime, but she easily convinced otherwise. “I say shut it, Mary Warren!” (Act 1, 73). After Abigail says that Mary
evidence to conclusions, and fall under others’ influence. In the play, Mary Warren is John and Elizabeth Proctor’s maidservant who becomes one of the accusers during
John Proctor is a middle aged man married to Elizabeth Proctor, and he plays the protagonist in this play. Marry Warren is the maid to the Proctor and she plays a big role in Elizabeth Proctor's arrest for witchcraft. These two characters both play important roles in The Crucible but both have different character traits, John Proctor is quick tempered and stubborn, but as for Marry Warren she is easily frightened and sneaky. John Proctor is a stubborn and quick tempered thirty year old man. Although
significantly as a result of events, conflicts, or other forces. In the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Mary Warren, the young servant of the Proctor’s is a dynamic character. Throughout the play, Mary’s personality takes a turn for the better. At the beginning of the play, Mary is shy, timid girl who hides in the shadows of Abigail Williams and lets people walk all over her. As the play develops, Mary realizes that what Abigail is doing isn’t right and rebels against Abby. Instead of following Abby,
“What poppet’s that, sir?” Is a quote said fearfully by Mary Warren, a character in the Crucible, in front of John and Elizabeth Proctor, Marshal Herrick and Reverend Hale when they ask her about the poppet. Mary was one of the girls who followed Abigail by pretending to be bewitched. She is also the servant of Elizabeth and John Proctor and then a court executive to “testify” against those accused of witchcraft with the other girls, including Abigail. Also when she went with John Proctor to testify
story, Abigail Williams was the ringleader of the witch trials, and she used the idea of predestination to cover up her own sins. Abigail was a very manipulative girl and ruined many lives. John Proctor, Mary Warren, and Elizabeth Proctor were just a few of the victims in Abby’s game. John, Mary, and Elizabeth exhibit the traits courage, weakness, and truth, whether it was in a positive or negative way. Based on the Merriam Webster dictionary, courage is defined as the,“mental or moral strength
Honesty is being fair and truthful to others. Honesty creates strong relationships in everyday life while dishonesty does the exact opposite and destroys relationships. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, dishonesty is linked to the main cause and also it affects the evidence of the Salem witch trials of 1692. In the beginning, a group of girls get caught dancing in the woods. One of the girls from the group, Betty, begins acting peculiar. Rumors begin to be spread throughout Salem that it is
Aaliyah Muniz Mrs. Silva AP Language and Composition 04 October 2017 Mary Warren Moral ambiguity is lack of sense in ethical decision-making. This means morally ambiguous characters are difficult to classify as either good or evil, as they contain strong aspects of both. These types of characters generally have real problems, causing their inner conflicts, which also makes them sympathetic. Stories that have morally ambiguous characters usually create built-in tension, because there is always
I - I promise you, Mr. Danforth, I only thought I saw them but I did not.” This was an important part of the book because Mary Warren finally confessed that all of the girls were lying so they would not her in trouble. Proctor had begged Mary Warren to confess but when she finally had the guts to do it, it backfired. Abby freaked out and told the whole court that Mary Warren was lying and that they were innocent. This also proves that Abby is sinful because she lied to many people on a daily basis
Elizabeth failed to back up his lechery claims all he had to fall back on was Mary Warren to back him up. She eventually folds under the pressure and calls John Proctor a witch. “MARY WARREN, pointing at Proctor: You’re the Devil’s man! PARRIS: Praise God! GIRLS: Praise God! PROCTOR: Mary, how-? MARY WARREN: I’ll not hang with you! I love God, I love God. DANFORTH: He bid you to do the Devil’s work? MARY WARREN: He come at me by night and every day to sign, to sign, to- DANFORTH: Sign
a page or so, until the atmosphere abruptly changes, as Proctor enquires, “I think you’re sad again aren’t you?” Elizabeth responds by saying that he had returned so late that she thought he had gone to Salem. When Elizabeth mentions that Mary Warren is currently in Salem, Proctor becomes angered, demanding why Elizabeth did not stop her. Elizabeth suggests that he himself, go to Salem to testify that the accusations of witchcraft are false. Proctor says that he cannot prove his allegation
trials. In The Crucible, the theme of hypocrisy plagues the pages and the three characters that exemplify this theme the most are Danforth, Paris, and Mary Warren. One character that seemed to fall into the social trap of hypocrisy is Judge Danforth. When questioning Mary Warren about her sudden decision to tell the truth, Danforth ridicules Mary when saying, "How were you instructed in your life? Do you not know that God damns all liars?" (94). The Judge sees himself as part of the "elect"
there’s a problem people tend to blame anyone they can, cause they think why not? But when it comes to The Crucible almost every character could be blamed for making witchcraft a big deal. But three major characters come to mind Judge Danforth, Mary Warren, and The Putnams. The Putnams can be blamed for the events in The Crucible. Some proof to this is that Thomas Putnam forced his daughter to say the names of people who came in contact with the devil for land. Evidence is when Giles says
Look at Miller’s presentation of Abigail Williams in The Crucible. How realistic is his presentation of her as a controller? In Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’, Abigail Williams is presented as a controller of many of the key characters. Abigail can successfully manipulate and control many of the characters because she is described as being; ‘…a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling’. Her beauty allows her to influence others as they are intimidated
untruths. Ever since Abigail has started lying Mary Warren has wanted to come clean and tell the truth before her lies started to build upon one another. “It’s on the beam! Behind the rafters” (Miller, 114). To protect Abigail’s reputation, Mercy Lewis, one of her peers started to pretend that Mary Warren has transformed into a yellow bird. In doing that, Abby, along with all of the other girls started to become frightened of this bird, acting as if it is Mary converted into a bird working her black art