Some may say money is the root of all evil but in ,The Crucible by Arthur Miller, fear was the root of all evil. The Crucible showed how characters crack under pressure. The cause of the hysteria in 1692 Salem that lead to the executions of twenty innocent villagers was fear. The characters that displayed this characteristic were: Mary Warren, John Proctor, and Abigail Williams. One character that showed fear in The Crucible is Mary Warren.
The Innocence of Mary Warren In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller there are many characters that are accused and prosecuted even though they are innocent. In fact most if not all of these people were innocent for what they were being accused of. The person who deserved these false accusations the least was Mary Warren.
Furthermore, Mary committed perjury by telling the court that John Proctor came to her every night to praise the devil (Miller
This led Mary to be asked to go to court again to be a witness during testimonies and for accusations. She went to court against John’s wish. Several days later, on the day of April 4th, a group of people, mostly the younger girls, accused Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft, then accused John also a week later. Mary was not one of the original accusers of John or Elizabeth, but she was willing to testify against both of them by saying that they made her touch the devil’s book. John’s attitude toward Mary did not help his situation either, he often said vulgar things about her and threatened to beat
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!”.
Gross corruption is when somebody is willing to procure anything out of greed or selfishness to gain money and power. One of many examples from “The Crucible” is Abigail Williams, Reverend Parris’s niece, she wants to be with John Proctor, but she is willing to anything to get rid of his wife, Elizabeth Proctor. Out of envy, Abigail accused Elizabeth of witchcraft, knowing that Goody Proctor would be executed. Envy is one of the toxins in our society today, and my assumption to get rid of envy is to praise each other, and be more grateful for what we possessed. Instead of bring another person down, bring yourself up, and work harder.
The book I will be getting my information about my characters is called The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The names of the characters I will be discussing is a dedicated and self-appreciative girl by the name of Marry Warren and an out of town expert on witchcraft by the name of Rev. John Hale. Mary Warren’s role in the story is a girl who is not only somewhat loyal to the Proctor family but also as a girl who is being forced to do Abigail William’s dirty work because of fear of Abigail killing her. The role that Rev. John Hale plays, starts off as him coming in the play as an out of time Reverend to prove that the daughter of the Salem town reverend is not bewitched. Rev. John Hale’s role however soon becomes more important to the story by him
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.
Unrest fills the Proctor house as Proctor returns home to find Elizabeth in the kitchen. ELIZABETH: Did you go to Salem today? Mary Warren is there. PROCTOR:
If someone would get in trouble at school they would try to switch the words up on the other victims to turn them into a suspect to get the attention off of them. “It were pretense, sir. ”(Pg.1294-L.18) Mary Warren was telling the truth after she lied to the judge about seeing spirits. Warren lied because she wanted to put the attention on herself and say that someone was sending spirits against her to get check off the list as a witch.
Rebecca Nurse And Martha Corey was judged unfairly in The Crucible. Rebecca Nurse was accused for murdering Ann Putnam’s seven babies. When really her children died just from birth. The reason Martha Corey was accused for bewitching Dr.Walcott’s pigs with her books. Every time Dr. Walcott got a new pig, the pig would die soon afterwards.
You will tell it in the court, Mary Warren: I cannot” (Miller, 80) In this conversation, Mary Warren and John Proctor are at odds because Mary is scared and unwilling to testify, but Proctor is forcing her to do so. He does not want to testify, but if Mary testifies, saying the same thing, Proctor does not have to. Mary’s testimony ensues a series of events at the courthouse, ending with the everyone outside in a panic, and Mary, more scared of Abigail than Proctor now, accuses Proctor of witchcraft. If Mary and Proctor has not fought, she would not have testified, these events would not have happened, Proctor would not be accused, and the idea that the accusations were false would not have been placed in the Judge’s head.
But the mainly because everyone thinks she is a witch. Due to the women in the court room continuously repeating it with details to support, making everybody believe Mary warren is a witch. Mary was the one caught in the dancing in the forest and being accused of witch craft. When Mary was in court she admitted she was witch craft but, also made everyone to think it was an act. In act 2 page 80 Mary Warren is pressured by Proctor to go to court and confess that Abigail is guilty.
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.
”(Miller 100). At that point in time Mary Warren and John Proctor both tried to prove Abigail Williams and the other girls of faking it until, act 4 when she backstabbed John Proctor and made her own claim that John Proctor was satan. ”You’re the devil’s man.” (Miller 110). Mary knows what Abigail was always a threat and being on her side was an advantage, John Proctor was foolish for thinking Mary would keep her word and tell on the girls.
