... certain characters are also fighting internal conflicts of their own. Miller uses three characters who manifest this internal battle ever so clearly. Such as Mary Warren who whole personality turns upside down, John Proctor who contemplates between the importance of his family and his own name and Reverend Hale who battles ... with himself whether to carry out his job requirements or do what he knows is right. Mary Warren is a girl who is forced with this inner turmoil throughout this play. At the outset of the play she is perceived to be a ... responds with " I'm just going home" (21)...

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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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... as the jury. Abigail worked for John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth. John Proctor had an affair with Abigail. Elizabeth knows of the affair and dismisses Abigail from there home. Mary Warren now works for them and is one of the girls that was found dancing in the wood. After a long day at court she comes home and gives Elizabeth a poppet. Abigail ... girls are telling the truth. Meanwhile they are accusing the women whom they do not like. Proctor gets Mary Warren to testify against the girls. When Mary Warren enters the courtroom, Abigail and the other girls start to scream that she is ...

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... his adultery. Such an admission would ruin his good name, and Proctor is, above all, a proud man who places great emphasis on his reputation. He eventually makes an attempt, through Mary Warren's testimony, to name Abigail as a fraud without revealing the crucial information. When this attempt fails, he finally bursts out with a confession, calling Abigail a "whore"" and proclaiming his guilt publicly. Only ... confessions and encouraging people to testify. Over the course of the play, however, he experiences a transformation, one more remarkable than that of any other character. Listen...

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... such as John Proctor, Giles Corey, and Rebecca Nurse are all prominent members of society, respected and looked up to by the town. When Proctor is accused of witchcraft by Mary Warren he said, "a fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men ... who critiqued him the in media, Abigail crushed people who stepped in her path, doubting her truthfulness or authority. When Mary Warren wished to confess that witchcraft in Salem was pretense, Abigail and the girls quickly turned against her. ...

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... kill Elizabeth with a charm made by Titubia, however, she was unsucsessful.. When the witch trials begin, Abigail sees an oportunity to move Elizabeth out of the way. Abigail notices Marry Warren making a doll for Elizabeth, and uses it to pin witchcraft on Mrs. Proctor. Abigail sticks a needle into herself and tells the people she saw Elizabeth with the devil. This would ... , closed minded, man and only does what he wants to and thinks what he wants to. Proctor trys to prove to Danforth that Mary is lying and never saw any spirits, and that he has a deposition stating what Mary says, D...

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... Elizabeth is arrested, John has to choose between his pride or his wife. He tries to compromise by bringing Mary Warren into the court to save his wife by confessing to lies and pretense concerning the accused witches. Ultimately, this fails when Mary Warren betrays him and when he is forced to admit to being an adulterer and put aside his pride in order ... ...

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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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... get her way. During the trials, Abigail says that Elizabeth was using witchcraft on her and stuck her in the abdomen with a pin. She does this because she knows that Mary Warren had made a doll for Elizabeth and had left the pin stuck into the doll's abdomen. When Herrick, the town marshal, searches the house, he finds the doll and Elizabeth is ... wife's grave!" John says to the courts. This causes even more killing; John is killed because in trying to get his wife freed he has Warren come forward about her false accusations. Abigail immediately accuses Warren of witchcraft, who says t...

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... the hangings and the trails. Although many did the courts still went on about their business hanging innocent people. On September 22 Martha Corey, Mary Esty, Alice Parker, Anne Pudeator, Margaret Scott, Wilmont Reed, Samuel Wardwell and Mary Parker were also hanged. After this last executions the court adjourned, saying they would meet again in the fall but it never did. ... of the Salem witch trials would haunt the village for years. The Accusers Age Elizabeth Booth 18 Sarah Churchill 20 Elizabeth Hubband 17 Anne Putnam 12 Susanna Sheldon 18 Mary Walcott 17 Mary Warren 20 Abigail Will...

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... continued to rise, some started to doubt the reliability of the troubled girls. John Proctor was one of those who did not believe the girls were bewitched. When his maidservant, Mary Warren, began to display the same bizarre behavior as the afflicted girls, he threatened to beat her. His idea was to invoke harsh punishments to cure the afflicted girls. With such ... a confession. He still refused and was ultimately crushed to death by rocks. Giles Corey's refusal to stand trial did not slow the court's conviction of accused witches. Martha Corey and Mary Easty were executed shortly afte...

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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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... last child baptized. With the latest craze of witchery and swirling accusations, John Proctor was easily indicted of being a messenger for the devil by the testimony of his disillusioned servant Mary Warren, who in the past committed perjury. The court who heard the testimony easily accepts it because she is a church going person, while John Proctor slightly deviates from the norm. This ... ...

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... only reinforce his beliefs. As the play progresses, however, his experiences bring forth a change, perhaps more dramatic than that of any other character. Through his conversations with John Proctor and Mary Warren, he begins to see a much more intricate explanation for the cries of witchcraft. It is an explanation having much less to do with the occult, and much more to with ... ...

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... came into his life he started not believing in himself. He was struggling in life and with this family life. He tries to ignore the events in Salem but when Mary Warren announces that she is an official of the court and that Elizabeth Proctor has been mentioned. Proctor still wants to dismiss the hearings but his wife uses his guilt about ... ...

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