How Is Mary Warren Free In The Crucible

In the play The Crucible, Acts I and II, Mary Warren allows Abigail Williams to negatively affect her good judgement. To add on, Mary was scared of Abigail's threats. Mary may not have the courage to help John Proctor win his case in Act III. Mary Warren is a lonely and weak character that refuses to stand up and do what she knows is the right thing.

Many people would go straight to accusing Abigail Williams for all the mayhem in Salem Village, but she definitely should not have all of the blame. Many others were falsely accusing people and one in particular even had opportunities to end it all, and that girl is Mary Warren. Driven by fear, Mary Warren, in Arthur Miller's, The Crucible, lies and falsely accusing innocent people; ultimately leaving 20 people dead and many more in an awful jail. Mary Warren accused innocents of witchcraft, did not end all the hysteria even with opportunities, and is the reason many people are dead, specifically John Proctor.

Mary Warren is a good person, but very weak, she’s easily influenced. She was first persuaded by Abigail and the other girls, and then John, and finally her own hysterical panic. In the beginning of the book, Mary was hesitant to be involved with the girls: “They’ll be calling us witches”(Miller,17). Not long afterwards, Mary is proud to be with the girls, giving into their excitement and even accusing people herself: “In open court she near choked us all to death” (Miller,54). Eventually, John made her confess in court even though she didn't want to.

In the Crucible, by Arthur Miller, John Proctor played a major role in the conflict within Salem. The actions of John Proctor led the townspeople to accuse him of witchcraft. Proctor lied at the end to save his life but then decided he couldn't go through with the lie. This shows how Proctor changed throughout the play to tell the truth.

Defense of Mary Warren When it comes to Arthur Miller’s allegorical work, The Crucible, very few characters can be deemed completely innocent. While just about every person in this story has a flaw of envy, pride, or selfishness, characters can often be sorted into the “accuser or accused” categories. One exception to this is Mary Warren. Throughout the story, her loyalties switch back and forth between these two sides. Due to this, she may seem like a selfish and unsympathetic character; that is not the case, however. Mary Warren is an abused and manipulated child, whose decisions in the story are certainly justified, given her situation. The first we see of Mary is when Betty falls ill after the the girls are caught congregating in the woods. Immediately, we see she is terrified, fully aware that them being accused of witchcraft would be “a hangin’ error” (1268). Abigail responds to her fear with an order to lie; she threatens them with violence should they not obey her. Abigail is one of Mary Warren’s main abusers in the story. John Proctor, Mary’s employer, enters the scene next. When he sees her away from his house, he scolds her in a humiliating fashion, even threatening to whip her. From the stage directions, we see she tries “to retain a shred of dignity” (1269), when this happens, leading to the belief that this reproach from Proctor is common in her life. We don’t hear from Mary again until the beginning of Act II. She

In addition to the vengefulness in the play, there was a lot of fear and self-preservation that led to the persecution of many innocent people. When the rumors of witchcraft first came about, Reverend Parris knew his daughter and niece had something to do with it. Earlier, he stumbled upon their dancing in the woods, but failed to mention it because he was scared of what people would think of him. The village was already at the verge of turning on him, and he couldn't risk sharing that information for the sake of his reputation. So many people had been accused before he finally admitted that his daughter and niece were two of the girls that started the trials. Lastly, Mary Warren succeeded at preserving her self-image by accusing John Proctor

Many characters in The Crucible are worried and obsessed, with their reputation and being respected. This is very true, the first character that came to my mind was Reverend Parris, who discovered all of the girls and his nieces dancing in the forest, they are accused for their wrongdoings. Once they’ve made it back home, Mary Warren is unconcious; Reverend Parris asks a variety of questions on why she will not wake up. Since he cannot find a direct answer he is frightened that he will be accused for allowing witchcraft in his household which he does not want because this will merely destroy his reputation and have him removed from the pulpit, I find him respectable because all he wants is to be good, and to figure problems out, Reverend Parris

I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”(Miller 48). Some readers would argue that this shows that she is selfish and lacks consideration for others. Abigail’s actions in this scene protect her while simultaneously hurting other townspeople.

Everyone knows that one person that they just can’t trust. For the characters in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, that one character is Mary Warren. Mary Warren is a servant to John and Elizabeth Proctor and one of the girls that are believed to be “witched”. The people pleasing character Mary Warren, in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, is constantly switching sides in fear of being persecuted and alone. Mary Warren is first introduced in The Crucible as a lonely and scared girl that wants to please the other girls.

In Salem, Mary is a follower who doesn’t take charge for her own actions. In Act Three, the narrator says, “She glances at Abigail, who is staring down at her remorseless. Then, appealing to Proctor….” When Mary glances at Abigail, it shows that she is not confident in her position which puts her in a vulnerable place where she can’t defend and later jeopardizes her life. She additionally endangers other innocent people, as she did not speak up and prove that the other innocent people like Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse; if she has spoken up, she would not have initiated all of the tragic events in

Abigail Williams is an excellent liar because she keeps all her stories straight and has made sure everyone thinks that she is being truthful. In The Crucible, Abigail believes that she has “.. done [her] duty pointing out the Devil’s people. To be mistrusted, denied, questioned like a-...” (219). Abigail is a brilliant liar because she

Abigail says, “I saw Goody Sibber with the devil.” She then goes on to accuse many other innocent men and women of being “seen with the devil”. Abigail and the rest of the girls must have a very large imagination and a real ease to lie, if they can make up something as crazy as the witch hunt. Throughout The Crucible Abigail lies many more times than just the two times that I have listed. The entire witch hunt is basically just a product of Abigail’s, along with a few other of the girls

The townspeople of Salem feared that they would be called witches so they lied and blamed their family and friends. Mary Warren being one of those people feared being hung and Abigail’s vengeance. When John tells Mary to go to court and confess, Mary refuses, knowing that Abigail will act out of revenge and in court she faces what she had been avoiding “ABIGAIL. Her eyes fall on Mary Warren. MARY. Abby!”(101). Mary Warren knows that Abigail will claim she is a witch so Mary goes along with it to escape death and she blames John Proctor by saying “You’re the devil’s man!”, instead of possibly ending the trials once and for all.

From Mary Warren’s speech it is evident that she has little confidence and very shy as she is scared to admit to the other girls what they are doing is wrong and how they should admit. The main reason she is wanting to admit it to save herself. Mary then goes on to mention that ‘It’s a sin to conjure.” The word ‘sin’ connotates to the devil. Not only is conjuring a sin but so is lying. This links to what the girls are doing as they are also lying about what they did and who they are accusing. The word ‘conjure’ also links with summoning and tricking which therefore links with witchcraft. This leads to magic which reveals what Mary and the girls may have been up to. Furthermore, Mary Warren’s lack of confidence is clearly seen through the stage directions when Proctor

Abigail: “... I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”