... 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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... 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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... 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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... were examined before Magistrates Hathorne, Corwin, Deputy Governor Thomas Danforth, and Captain Samuel Sewall. During this analysis, John Proctor was also jailed. Then Abigail Hobbs, Bridget Bishop, Giles Corey and Mary Warren were taken into account. The only one to confess was Hobbs. On April 22, Nehemiah Abbot, William and Deliverance Hobbs, Edward and Sarah Bishop ... , Mary Easty, Mary Black, Sarah Wildes, and Mary English were examined before Hathorne and Corwin. Only Nehemiah was cleared of all charges. On May 2, Sarah Morey, Lydia Dustin, Susannah Martin, and Dorcas Hoar were exa...

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... views. Throughout the play Danforth claims that he is not biased and only wishes to find out the truth about whether or not there are witches in Salem. Consequently, when Mary Warren, one of the original accusers, try's to give testimony stating that she and the other girls accusations were merely pretense Danforth attacks her. Danforth threatens her saying, "You will confess ... Danforth only wishes to save his reputation after sentencing reputable people such as John Proctor, Elizabeth his wife, and Rebecca Nurse to hang. This also proves to the reader that Mary's testimony would make...

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... tells the court about the affair, as a last ditch effort to prevent his wife getting hung for his sins, but that effort failed as Mary Warren lied to save herself when Abigail was talking about an invisible bird. Mary then says that John forced her to lie so he could save himself. John is then arrested for contempt of court. This is how ... ...

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... Putman's nineteen-year-old-servant, also came along. Elizabeth Hubbard, the seventeen-year-old niece of Dr. William Griggs, sometimes showed up. So did Mary Walcott, sixteen, daughter of Putman in-law Jonathan Walcott. Twenty-year-old Mary Warren, the servant of tavern keeper John Proctor, occasionally visited. After seeing the girls acting so strangly, their parents took them to Dr. Griggs. He ... ...

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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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... 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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... 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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... . Over the course of the play however he experiences a transformation, one more remarkable than that of any other character. Listening to John Proctor, another crucial character in the play, and Mary Warren he becomes convinced that they, not Abigail, also another crucial character, are telling the truth. John Proctor plays the tragic hero in the play. He is an honest, upright, and ... ...

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... 91.) Danforth: Then you tell me that you sat in my court, callously lying, when you knew that people would hang by your evidence? (She does not answer.) Answer me! Mary Warren: (almost inaudibly) I did, sir.(Miller 106.) "Following the identification of Osborne, the girls, as if on cue, fell once again into their all to familiar fits."(Rice 37.) Abigail once ... ...

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... is to accuse her or anything? But Elizabeth's immunity to the trials cause her to get taken to court for owning poppets, which in fact, are owned by her servant, Mary Warren. John Procter is a strong man, who thrives at the chance to be right and known. But by the end of the play he questions himself saying, "Who is John Proctor ... ...

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... because of it. First she tried witchcraft in the forest with local girl of Salem, and then she tried accusing her of being a witch. She stuck a needle into a poppet that Mary Warren was going to give to Elizabeth. She went to the extreme by sticking a needle two inches into her own belly, just so people would believe that Elizabeth tried to kill ... ...

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... he was a farmer. John Proctor was a tavern keeper. Finally, John and Elisabeth"'"s their three kids lived in their house with them. The play portrays them as living by themselves with Mary Warren. Eventually, all five members of the Proctor family were convicted of with craft. Abigail Williams is another character whose life was full of differences in the book compared to real ... ...

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