... play could go either way and the outcome of the scene will determine the outcome of the play. The main characters in the scene are John Proctor, Abigail Williams and Mary Warren; they all have very different characters and roles to play. John Proctor's role in the play is to save his wife and the accused people. He works for justice, he ... to gain some influence in the situation. Repetition is used to focus people's attention and increase the pace; the girls used repetition to take the attention off Mary Warren so she can't get her point across. Mary Warren screams "Stop it!!" Quickly ...

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... people that may be to blame for the witch trials. However The Crucible leads the reader to believe that the majority of the guilt could be found in Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and John Proctor. Although she is a smart, charismatic person with what seems to be a decent life for Puritan times, Abigail is a spiteful, vengeful, evil, young lady. She ... but still caused harm and suffering on others by the things they do or say and the things that they do not do and do not say. Mary Warren is an example of this. She is the Proctors" servant girl, and one of the girls who danced in the for...

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... like Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Baba and Amir destroy the trust they have with their family and friends. Through their lies and actions, Abigail ruins her relationship with Tituba and Mary Warren, while Amir shatters his relationship with Hassan. In addition, it is also seen how John Proctor and Baba betray their family by keeping secrets on them, having a love relationship with ... their close friends. We see how Abigail causes a huge conflict in the novel through her act of betraying her close friend, Mary Warren. She accuses Mary of being involved in witch craft. This accusation...

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... represented. In this case the good has prevailed. Another example of the battle between good and bad is through the story of Mary Warren and "The Girls" (Abigail and the others). Mary Warren was one of the girls caught dancing in the forest. However, she is different from them, because she turned her back ... on the other girls and confessed that what they were doing was a fraud. Mary Warren, the nanny of the Proctor's children, was convinced by John ... to testify in defense of Elizabeth. Since she cares for her, Mary does so and testifies in court that Abigail and the others are a fra...

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... Friedman) The end of McCarthy's Red-hunt after the trials proved he indeed lacked affability. Similarly, Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, Mercy Lewis, and Mary Warren in The Crucible use the same method to gain what they desire. Using the knowledge that witchcraft is illegal and immoral, the girls accuse Salem ... Howe, Martha Bellows, Goody Siber, Alice Barrow, Goody Hawkins, Goody Bibber, and Goody Booth. Abby even turns in opposition to her own friend, Mary Warren, because she confesses to faking all of the hexes that "witches- supposedly put on her. Following, the group of female accu...

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... no matter what some of the people underwent they still would not change there attitudes and they way they felt about witchcraft. The way that Reverend Hale,Abigail Williams, and Mary Warren change and the way that they stay the same after all they undergo is interesting. The way that makes it interesting is some of the character that change. Take Reverend ... of the play i still believe that self-centered still suits her. Although self-centered fits Abigail, it does not quite fit Mary Warren. I think the word that would best fit Mary is scared. From the beginning 'til the end Mary Warre...

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... or recognition scene." In the play each action which is preformed is followed by another, which was caused by the preceding action. For example Elizabeth's name is mentioned in court. Mary Warren makes a poppet for Elizabeth and gives it to her the very same night that the women are rounded up for suspicion of witchcraft. It was the poppet which caused her ... to be arrested so; her arrest was because of Mary Warren making the poppet. Because Elizabeth is arrested Procter forces Mary Warren to go to court and testify to the falsity of the claims of witchcraft by Abigail and the other gi...

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... is often weak in his presence. In this play, Gerry comes across as a very strong, dominant character, one that Chris would do anything for. In "The Crucible", John Proctor forces Mary Warren to go to the court and try and convince them that Abigail is lying and it is her who has been summoning the devil, not his own wife ... . Mary Warren obviously is very scared at this, and feels forced to do so from Proctor. Proctor is not the only dominant character in the play, Danforth and Hale are both also ... very demanding. In this way I feel that Mary Warren is quite alike to Chris. Therefore...

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... of the movie when compared to the book. Lastly, the final scene that was in the movie but not at all explained in the book was the confession scene with Mary Warren. After Mary Warren confessed about witchery; the girls who were accused, attacked her. In the book, it explains that the girls were just mad at ... Mary, but they never did anything violent to her. This was not the case in the movie, however, as the girls indeed attacked her. It's events like this that make fans ... ...

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... any means of black-male to any means of brute force. In Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, Mary Warren was pressured by John Proctor to go into court and make a crucial decision. Pressure from the court and Mary's peers made her scared for her life, which led her to turn against John Proctor and not ... to go through with John's dirty work. The power of the court played a big role in Mary's decision to turn against John. The court didn't believe Mary when she said that Abigail was lying. Mary was afraid of the power of the court and its ability to have her hanged. Danforth was a powerfu...

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... person and was cruel. Another time that she could have just gave up and turned herself in was when Mary Warren came forward to the judge saying that this was all "pretense" or pretend. Abigail did not have to make it as though Mary Warren was the one possessed by the devil by fainting and becoming very cold like death. Abigail was the head ... ...

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... that Reverend Hale does not think that either John or Elizabeth are witches. Tension has already been building up in the previous scene as Mary Warren tells the Proctors about how she thinks that Goody Osburne is cursing her. Mary Warren also says to John, "I saved her life today!" pointing to Elizabeth as Elizabeth's name has been mentioned in court. This starts Elizabeth panicking ... ...

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... see him start to question his own decisions as a judge. He not only was trying to convince the village they were guilty but he was also struggling to convince himself. Mary Warren's postcard is significant because it shows that she is still trying to win Abigail Williams approval. In our version of the Crucibles ending, Abigail is one of few girls in ... their "group " left. Mary was made out to be an unconfident, follower from the beginning of the story. Mary continues to search for her identity through others regardless of what is right. Mary doesn't know who she is without Abigail. W...

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... Abigail tries to convince her to tell the truth. John's wife, Elisabeth Proctor is later arrested after being accused of practicing witchcraft. Mary Warren is forced to testify against the girls. In turn the girls accuse Mary of bewitching them. Mary in order to save herself she accuses John of practicing witchcraft. John refuses to confess of practicing witchcraft is put to death. Miller ... ...

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... in The Crucible face difficult decisions, or crucibles, piecing together the story. The first crucible to take place is concerning John Proctor, the protagonist of the play. John has brought Mary Warren, his servant, to the court to admit that all the accusations of witchcraft have been pretense. John is accused of trying to overthrow the court but he says his only ... , except for his wife. In court, he accuses Abigail of not being a child because she laughs in church and has been caught dancing. Abigail then turns the girls against Marry Warren and makes John's allegations of the girls...

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... in The Crucible face difficult decisions, or crucibles, piecing together the story. The first crucible to take place is concerning John Proctor, the protagonist of the play. John has brought Mary Warren, his servant, to the court to admit that all the accusations of witchcraft have been pretense. John is accused of trying to overthrow the court but he says his only ... , except for his wife. In court, he accuses Abigail of not being a child because she laughs in church and has been caught dancing. Abigail then turns the girls against Marry Warren and makes John's allegations of the girls...

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... court and the Salemites are fooled by Abigail's lies; they had not realized that someone could lie to such an extent, especially when using the name of the Lord. When Mary Warren testifies in court that she and the girls were pretending, and that they never saw any spirits, Mr. Danforth first replies, "with great alarm and surprise, to ... Mary: Never saw no spirits?", then says later, "wide-eyed Indeed. Pause. He is baffled by this..." The stage directions show us Mr. Danforth's reaction, that he is alarmed and baffled. ... ...

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... capture anyone accused of witchcraft and will prosecute every suspect. The trials have exploded out of proportion, and the only hope of ending the accusals are those who started them. Mary Warren herself, has realized the sincerity of the situation and is trying desperately to explain exactly what happened; "I--I heard the other girls screaming, and you, Your Honor, you seemed to ... ...

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... indecision. 12 Furthermore, even though Proctor does eventually confess in Act Three he does so with great reluctance and only after trying to debunk the girl's cries of witchcraft through Mary Warren. 13. He is aware of his role in the cultivation of the town's crisis and right until the play's climax where he finally confesses, Proctor places greater value on his ... ...

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... different People in the real Salem Witch trials were combined. For example, Abigail Williams was a combination of herself and Ann Putnam, Jr. and a majority of the townsgirls were Combined into Mary Warren, Mercy Lewis, and Susanna Walcott. (The McCarthy Trials Compared to The Crucible , Internet) Most of the characters themselves were the same as the real people who were involved in the ... ...

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... things they did not do. It was the ultimate trial of determination and willpower to withstand such a wretched ordeal with your morals still intact. Abigail Williams, Elizabeth and John Proctor, Mary Warren, Reverend Parris and even Reverend Hale had changed drastically because of what they had to go through during the course of the play. As the situations grew hotter the true ... ...

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... after even one of the most respectable women in Salem, Rebecca Nurse, was accused of being a witch. When court was called into session more accusations came; one of the girls, Mary Warren, out of fear of being hanged, confesses that ! John Procor is the Devil's man! (Miller 110). At the beginning of the drama, Reverend Parris stumbles upon the girls dancing naked ... ...

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... is people we know who are "in" it. And if we don't know any people with the extremes of character of Nurse or Abigail, we can mold characters such as Mary Warren to our own liking. For instance, a reader may forgive her for cracking under pressure and claiming Proctor was with the Devil; others with a different background may mentally condemn her and ... ...

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... , Elizabeth."(852). The one commandment he forgets, when reciting to Hale, is the very one he has committed, adultery. Once he is faced with the accusations thrown at him by Mary Warren the conflict he is now facing is not if he is a good man or not but if he should stay true to himself or confess just to stay alive. The ... ...

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... think on it. (Page 53) Another difference among the power Abigail holds and that John holds is that John attempts to use his power to do good. He eventually takes Mary Warren to the court house and admits to having relations with Abigail. While John holds power for a short period of time, it is ultimately not enough to override that of the ... ...

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