The atrocities committed during the salem witch trials of 1692 are still common knowledge in current day society. Innocent citizens unfairly lost either their lives, families, assets, or all three. Highly respected members of the community were even subject to such trials. Abominations to this degree do not happen by coincidence. Many guilty souls take part in creating a platform of wickedness that demeans the humanity of its victims. Yet there is no one who owns as much responsibility as Mary Warren. The Salem Witch Trials were awful in every characteristic; however, the worst aspect is the fact that polemically driven teenage girls had complete control over the court system. The truth of the matter is that human nature can, completely …show more content…
Warren was scared to face a prosecution from the court and the girls. She panicked and flung the criminality upon proctor and begun to blame him on page 121 “my name. He want my name.’I’ll murder you,’ he says, ‘if my wife hangs! We must go and overthrow the court,’ he say!”. The court, in turn, indicted a verdict for proctor which sentenced him to death. As a result of her actions, Mary killed the man who was fighting to save the people who were wrongfully charged. She decided to pull down proctor to use as stepping stone for the pathway to her …show more content…
Be that as it may, there are a select few who advocate for her. The fact that she lives in a community that deprives her of the attention she needs causing her to falsely accuse could be a possible argument. In addition, Warren is indeed too young to be expected to tell a weighty truth. Moreover, the girls in which she associates with would have shunned and ostracized her, had she told the truth. While these are all good points they seem to be faulty. Although Warren feels as if she needs to deceitfully incriminate to gain attention, she knew it was wrong. In a conversation with Proctor, she discloses this to him. Furthermore, if Warren was able to admit her sins to Proctor she should have the ability to admit it in court. She is at an old enough age where she should not be excused from her crimes. In an article from The Marshall Project, nonprofit journalism about criminal justice, they explain that children need to be held responsible “English common law drew the line of criminal responsibility at age seven. Indeed, holding children responsible for their actions is one of the important ways we teach them to become responsible adults. In this sense, it is more important to hold children responsible than adults.” Even though Warren is young, she needs to be liable for her wrongdoings. Lastly, the group of girls would have scorned her, yet Warren decided to pick saving countless live or being kicked out of her friend
Abigail and the other girls were being accused of witchcraft by Mary Warren. Mary reveals that she saved Elizabeth's life and she also was accused in court. Elizabeth realized that Abigail had wanted her dead. Proctor had told her that he will find Ezekiel the next day and tell him what Abigail had said, but Elizabeth thinks that he needs to go now. . Elizabeth believes Abigail wants her dead so that she can have John all to herself. .
Hysteria makes people go as mad as a boss who just lost his business. Many people suffer Hysteria even today. The crucible is about the Salem Witch trials which was when innocent people were wrongly accused of being witches. The author of this, Arthur Miller, was in the same situation, he was wrongly accused of being a communist on the blacklist. During the Salem Witch Trials over 200 people were accused, 20 of them who were killed.
But Judge Danforth doesn't believe Proctor and the reasoning behind him wanting Mary to confess. And so she tells the court the truth. When the girls are brought in, the court turns the blame onto Mary. Saying she was the one who bewitch them. Proctor in shock, confesses his affair with Abigail.
Religion, like land, was power in Salem. Because the people believed she was doing the Lord’s work, they gave her the power, much like they did to Reverends Parris and Hale, as did Judge Danforth, who claimed to be a judge that made his judgements based on the Lord’s word. Mary Warren, who was but a meek servant, was given the leniency to talk back to John Proctor, who was her employer. When told to go to bed by Proctor, she exclaimed, “I’ll not be ordered to bed no more, Mr. Proctor”. Employees, no matter what position or background, will never speak back to their boss; especially when he’s known to beat you, as John Proctor did to Mary.
Yelitza Andrade Pyles English 11 Honors 12 October 2015 Witch-hunts Justification In Salem, Massachusetts 1692 the Salem witch trials began when a group of girls lied and said that they were possessed by the devil and the accusations of several innocent people being involved with witchcraft took place. Trials later took place after the accusations for the hearings of each person and to hear their story. Many people who had hearings lied to the court and said that they were possessed to not get executed and to save their lives but many did not want to lie because it was wrong and an injustice. The event led to 19 executions of all innocent people and 100 other innocent women, men, and children were put in prison because of the false accusations.
I believe it was the court’s disbelief in hard evidence and total trust in children’s false accusations that led to the Salem Witch Trials. While some could say that it was because of the children giving these false accusations, I think that the grown adults could have (and should have) recognized that they could not base hundreds of condemnations on the whims of children and their antics. Arthur Miller takes us through the time when children could tear down a person’s entire life and reputation by putting on a show in this story The Crucible. Through the lack of common sense and belief in children’s antics, the court affected the problem more than the outside influences ever could.
Towards the end of the plot, the villagers begin to suspect that there could be a fault in some of the accusations. Mary Warren is one of the girls that were previously threatened by Abigail Williams, but once Elizabeth Proctor is arrested, she comes forward to the court.
The year of 1962 was a major turning point in history in Salem Village, Massachusetts. Nineteen people died as a result of the trials and more than hundred people were found guilty of practicing the Devil’s magic. This paper will debate the events leading up, the events that took place during and after the trials, and the children and women who suffered because this. The Salem witch trials began in the spring of 1692. A group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts claimed that the demon possessed them and “accused local women of the Devil’s magic” (www.history.com).
In the Crucible, by Arthur Miller, two of the most important characters are, Mary Warren and Reverend John Hale. The story takes place in Salem, 1692, when supposedly witchcraft ran rampant. John Hale gives us the knowledge of witchcraft and puritan beliefs, in the story, in order to decide whether someone was a witch or not, while Mary Warren assists Abigail Williams in the false accusations presented in order to alleviate the punishment they were facing for the actual practicing of witchcraft as well as dancing. In the story John Hale is intelligent while Mary Warren seems to want good, but is too nervous to take a stand on it.
The Salem Witch Trials has developed its own reputation. Some people think that it was a good representation of older history and how it has helped our justice system develop. Others think that along with it being a good history lesson, the trials were also gave early settlers the embarrassing title of ignorance and selfishness. The play The Crucible shows us that the court was ruled by two things, The Bible and the value of people giving “their word”.
He describes Mary screaming, “ as though infected,” while the girls cower, “as though” they had been cursed. (118) These similes paint a detailed picture of the scene, intensifying the craziness and depicting the mass hysteria in the courtroom. Mary, due to Miller’s directing, embodies the sense of fear driving the panic of the scene. She sustains the wildness of all previous allegations through her exclamation that John Proctor is, “the Devil’s man.
This leads to Mary’s hysterical accusation of Proctor after she finds herself targeted by the other girls and about to be consumed by the hysteria herself if she doesn’t contribute to it. All the girls were crying
Tituba, the slave of Reverend Parris, is the first to admit to dancing with the devil. Based on the background knowledge of the time, slaves were not considered part of the class system, so she was not valued as a community member. Tituba is conscious that she is in danger, “she is also very frightened because her slave sense has warned her that, as always, trouble in this house eventually lands on her back” (Miller, pg. 6). Tituba attempts to tell the truth about Abigail when she says, “You beg me to conjure! She beg me make charm” (Miller, pg. 44) but realizes that her word against Abigail will not stand.
Proctor is astonished by what Mary is saying, and she continues to accuse him. Mary says, “I’ll not hang with you! I love God, I love God” (Miller 261). She is now telling the judge that Proctor has made a deal with the devil and is working with him. Mary Warren blatantly lies to Danforth and throws Proctor under the bus just so she can walk free.
The people who preside over the trials are corrupt. People who were accused of witchcraft are wrongfully indicted, and those transgressions must be justified. Danforth is the governor of Massachusetts who thinks of himself as a fair man. Thomas Putnam who has grudges against the people of Salem, and Abigail is a shameless liar who leads the accusations against the people of Salem. What the people of Salem have seen as demonic possessions of the girls is nothing more than an act of deception.