Mary Warren

recantation was not taken as seriously as those of guilt. The only confessions the people wanted to accept were ones of guilt or ones that were accusing. It is very visible when viewing the case of Mary Warren. When she expressed any uncertainty, she was told to stow her doubts and imposed to go back to the delusions of her hallucinations. Moreover, Sarah Ingersoll’s testimony of Sarah Churchill’s recanting her confession was overlooked. Although, they listened to Sarah Ingersoll, they gave her testimony

In Miller’s drama, The Crucible, Mary Warren is most to blame for the witch hysteria taking place in Salem. Many may argue that Abigail Williams is the cause for this madness. They claim that her cruel and heartless personality leads people to believe that she is responsible for this hysteria. Although this idea appears to be true, Mary Warren's lack of confidence is what truly commences this frenzy in Salem. While Mary is first introduced as a caring and kindhearted person, the reader quickly learns

In the heart wrenching play known as “The Crucible” I would say I identify the most with Mary Warren. While reading this play I noticed that Mary was shy and was easily convinced, I can effortlessly say I would be the same if I was in her situation. Three ways I would say we are similar are that she hung out with the wrong crowd but she never participated in their actions with witchcraft. She was scared of Abigail and didn't want to be hanged. And in the end she told the truth. In the beginning

Mystery of Mary Warren “Everything is not what it seems,” while this lyric may seem trite, it holds great truth. People, places, activities, each can be viewed in more than one way depending on the circumstances. From these viewpoints spring complexities and mystery in the shape of differing facades. Mary Warren, a young woman living in Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials, shows no exception to differing viewpoints. Throughout The Crucible, in which Mary Warren is a character, the very children

families and friends being broken up by witchcraft. Mary Warren, a servant for the Proctors, mainly caused strife and chaos to emerge from the grounds due to her shyness, submissive personality, and her cowardness. Mary Warren portrays a shy servant who isn’t as courageous as Abigail. Because of her shyness, she withheld viable information about Abigail’s performance which later caused damage to everyone associated with her and Abigail. In Act One, Mary says, “Abby, we’ve got to tell. Witchery’s a hanging

“The Crucible” back in 1953. Most of the characters are lying to themselves and/or others. Mary Warren is now trying to make things right but Abigail and the girls don’t want to confess to the lies they have made. Mary Warren and the girls have been misleading the town of Salem with Abigail’s lies. Mary tries confessing her “sin” but the judges don’t believe her and now she is being accused of witchcraft. Mary has come to her senses to portray the truth, “I

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Mary Warren is presented to the audience as a shy and lonely character with a lack of fortitude. Her weak will and timid nature puts her in many situations where she refuses to stand up and do what she knows is right. Mary Warren succumbs under peer pressure and societal expectations, placing her in a predicament that causes her to harm other people and put blame on innocent people. She is not an evil person, but as a result of her giving in to what people want, she

Today, Mary Warren, my servant, was being accused of heresy in court when she was calling Abigail and her followers out on lying to the community. The girls tried to convict Mary Warren as a witch after the girls were “possessed” in the courtroom, supposedly by Mary, as she was blaming them for lying. As Mary was telling the judges that she had never done anything to harm Abigail and tried to them that she was not a witch, the girls suddenly looked toward the courtroom and church ceiling as if

Emma Harrison 10/24/17 Ms. Ruiz Period 6 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

Mary Anne Warren’s argument on the legal status of abortion stands on a concrete understanding and realization of an individual’s personhood. Now Mary Anne Warren’s unyielding argument on the basis of personhood is that, “If we assume that an entity is a person just because it happens to belong to our favored biological classification, we stand convicted of speciesism, close cousin to racism. There are properties that do qualify an entity as a person, but simply being human is not one of them” (124)