... of the historical Salem Witch Trials where many innocent people were being accused of crimes or sins they did not even commit. There was one character named Mary Warren who is actually a minor character turns out to be one of the most important, dynamic characters. She goes from being a lonely, shy, frightened ... teenager to being a very brave witness in court. Mary Warren, the scared, weak little girl she is is lonely at the beginning of the play and has been spending time with Abigail Williams. When there is ... the town about witchcraft after the girls are found dancing in the fore...

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... on witchcraft, rather than it being just that he did not know how to properly care for his animals. 2.Identify Abigail, Betty, Tituba, and Mary Warren (relationships and roles in act 1). Abigail Williams is an orphan and the niece of Reverend Parris. Upon Abigail being put out from the Proctors' ... the children into practicing witchcraft. As Abigail was forced to leave the Proctor's household, the Proctors needed to get a new helper. Seventeen year old Mary Warren helps in the Proctors' household, and is one of the girls involved in the conspiracy of witchcraft. Why does Mrs. Putnam, bel...

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... 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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... poppet are examples used to practice witchcraft). At the same time, Abigail wanted to protect John Proctor, but when Mary Warren testified that the girls were fallacious by faking and lying, it soon changed. Then, Abigail decides to make it seem as if Mary Warren talks to the devil by putting spirits on Abigail. In other words, Abigail was intended pious to many, but ... the truth about who she really is. Many never suspect those who are unwilling to lie until it possibly occurs. Mary Warren exuberates much frustration and confusion as Abigail puts the guilt on her for putting the devil...

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... charge from Abigail Williams and had been instructed to search the house for poppets. The Proctors handed over the only one they have, the one Mary Warren has just given Elizabeth. Upon examination of the poppet, Cheever discovered a needle imbedded in it and became convinced of Elizabeth's guilt. They ... she claimed that Elizabeth Proctor had been her assailant and testified that Elizabeth's familiar spirit pushed a needle into her at dinner that night. Mary Warren tells them how the poppet got into the house, and claims that she stuck the needle in it, but Hale questions whether or n...

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... " man talk like this; it's said to be defiant. With John Proctor requiring Mary Warren to testify that the girls were falsifying about witchcraft, it hurt him more in the long run. Mary Warren becomes convicted of witchcraft from Abigail to protect John, but it backfires. When Mary Warren states John bewitched her. Mary Warren inculpates John to protect herself. John refuses to confess to this , therefore, becomes ... implicated with having the devils spirits on the girls. This justifies that John Proctor was accused by knowing Mary Warren because if he would not have made her testify, t...

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... the end of Act 3, a court scene, John Proctor is trying to prove that Abigail has been pretending the whole time. He is using Mary Warren as evidence. Unfortunately, something goes terribly wrong. Abby and the girls start pretending that Mary is bewitching them by repeating what she says and saying her spirit is above them and getting ready to attack. Basically acting like ... , turns the attention on Proctor. (dialogue page 226): Proctor. Mary, tell the Governor what they - (He has hardly got a word out, when, seeing him coming for her, she rushes out of his reach, screaming in horror.)...

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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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... 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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... (the Parris" slave from Barbados) how to talk to the death. When a crowd form outside of Reverend Parris" home everyone exempt Abigail, Mercy Lewis and Mary Warren, the servants of the Putnam's and the Proctors, Abigail threatens the two women not to tell anyone the whole story - the only thing that can say is ... that they were dancing and that Tituba was teaching Ruth to conjure up her sisters. John Proctor arrives and he sends Mary home, Abigail and him talk alone about their arrive and Abigail propositions Proctors and he sternly refuses her. While Reverend Parris is outside reciting...

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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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... the things that she says she truly believes and this is why it is so easy for the people of Salem to believe her. In one incident Abigail claimed that Mary Warren was feeling cold, she believed in herself so much that she actually felt cold, "I - I know not. A wind, a cold, has come . She is cold, Your Honour, touch her!" Her "abilities" are ... to others. Abigail's "abilities" seem to affect the rest of the girls as well as they seem to play along, in the courtroom, Mary: "Abby you mustn't! Girls: Abby you mustn't! Mary: I"m here! I"m here! Girls: I"m here! I"m here! Danforth: Mary war...

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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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... another of Abigail's driving motivations. Abigail craves power over her situation and the people around her. In Act III, there is a power struggle between Abigail and John Proctor. He convinces Mary Warren, the young maidservant of the Proctors and an active accuser in the trials, to withdraw her previous accusations and to testify against Abigail. When ... sending out her spirit to attack her. Her actions prompt the other girls to do the same. Mary, out of sheer terror, withdraws her claim, and then, she accuses Proctor of witchcraft. Mary Warren is a tool in the situation. Whoever con...

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... and he had a hard time praying when she was in the house. It was really because he had just learned how to pray and wasn't good at it yet anyways. Mary Warren brings Elizabeth and rag doll one day that she had made her while she was doing the court hearings. Later on Cheever comes to on orders from the courts to ... to take her but Hale said the courts would come through if she really wasn't a witch and Elizabeth just went willingly. Now in court John decides to come up with Mary as his witness and get his Wife out of the charges and when he gets there the judges tell him that she gets ...

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... , the rumour of witchcraft is all about; I think you'd best go down and deny it yourself." She is also aggressive and forceful, the other girls are afraid of her. When Mary Warren suggested that they should confess to dancing in the woods. Abigail threatens them,"...I have seen some reddish work done at night and I can make you wish you had never seen ... of others, which causes the other girls to follow and play along, making her story plausible. This can be seen towards the end of Act Three, in the courtroom, where Mary Warren was confessing that she and the other girls were lying abou...

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... know of his adulterous affair, and he means to keep it that way. So to take his mind of the subject he caustically reminds Mary Warren, who now works for him, that he forbade her to leave his house, and proceeds to threaten her with a whipping if she does not obey his ... Now the witch trials have started; fourteen people are already in jail. Whoever Abigail and her troop names are subject to being arrested for bewitching the girls. Mary goes to the Proctor house and tells Elizabeth, John Proctor's wife, that her name was mentioned in the trial, but that she spoke in her favor ... arrive...

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... as their leader. She manipulates them into saying whatever is fit for the occasion, and they all listen to her with no arguments; Mary Warren: "Abby, she's going to die! It's a sin to conjure, and we- Abigail: "I say shut it, Mary Warren!" (Miller 20). Even though she is not the oldest member of the group of girls, she is definitely the one that is ... ...

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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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... 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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... a conflict with Betty in the beginning because Betty knows she didn't tell the truth about what the girls did in the woods. She has another conflict with Mary Warren toward the end of the play. Mary Warren is supposed to be her friend but she betrays her by telling on her for lying and gets her into trouble. The actions that Abigail Williams shows ... ...

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... Abigail Williams. The only reason that Elizabeth was accused of being a witch is because Abigail wanted her dead so she could have Proctor for herself. Abigail and Mary set Elizabeth up by giving her a poppet with a needle stuck in it, representing witchcraft. Elizabeth eventually proved herself not guilty and kept her life. Evil ... were so frightened by her spirit and power that they followed her and partook in lies. Nearing the end of the play, Abigail says that Mary Warren's spirit, in the form of a bird, is coming to attack her. The other girls join in by acting frozen and frightene...

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... Putnam vengeful, but greedy in his killings as well. The last important example found in "The Crucible" that illustrates vengeance as a motive for accusation occurs between the "possessed" girls and Mary Warren, a child once possessed but now ready to speak the truth. When Mary tells the judge that the girls are all being deceitful, the girls decide out of vengeance to punish ... is a black art to change your shape. No, I cannot, I cannot stop my mouth; it's God's work I do." Prompted by Abigail's accusation, the girls cry, "Her claws, she's stretching her claws!" "Mary, please don't hu...

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... much older than her, advice. Abigail shows a character of superiority by her authoritative, prejudiced, and snobbish remarks. Abigail shows a tinge of resentment when Mary Warren confesses that the witchcraft is only pretend. Abigail becomes angry at this and accused Mary of being a witch, too. Aurthur Miller's development of Abigail William's Character greatly affects the plot of the play. Her resentment toward those that ... 's misplaces loyalty destroys her husband's case. Abigail screams and claims there is a bird on the beam and that it is attempting to attack her. Mary tries to sto...

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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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