Essay On Mary Warren In The Crucible

Salem was a town that was filled with all sorts of different witches and snitches. Salem was the town where you could have all different varieties of people. You could have witches, liars, slaves, anything you want. One of those liars just happens to be Mary Warren which is one of the teenagers that have to be in the middle of the drama. Mary Warren is a slave worker for the Proctors, but also a drama queen that follows what Abby does. Mary Warren is to blame because she could’ve gone to the court and stopped everything. Mary was friends or one of the followers of Abby until Betty woke up and said that Abby had drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor. Right then Mary could’ve went and told someone about it and Abby would have been put in jail and everything wouldn’t have ended in hanging people and getting out of hand. Mary should’ve ended her and Abby’s friendship in the beginning whenever Abby took the girls to the woods because Tituba made a curse. Mary didn’t have to go to the woods and sit with them while they were dancing around a fire and trying to ruin Goody Proctor. Mary lied to John by telling him “I only come to see the great doings in the world”(Miller 145). …show more content…
Abby had the girls do anything she wanted them to do like faint in the middle of the fcourt. Mary did not have to cause hysteria with the rest of the girls. Standing up in the middle of the court and pointing out that Abby is faking to get a woman killed because she is jealous would’ve got Abby in jail real quick. John Proctor talking to Mary Warren about going to court should’ve been the end of the conversation, but instead she had to fight with him saying “I cannot tell they’ll turn on me” (Miller 174). Mary doesn’t want to tell about Abby and the other girls because she knows what the girls will try and do to