Mary Warren In The Crucible '

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Mary Warren is one of the characters that change the most throughout the text due to the specific events that occur around her. At the beginning, she accepts being whipped because they knew that witchery was a hanging error but Abigail’s threats and throwing blame around eventually causes Mary Warren and the other girls to join in on the blame. Mary Warren, however, tries to remain objective to her service family, which is seen when she denies the conviction claims of Elizabeth Proctor, shown when she tells Elizabeth she was “somewhat mentioned. But...said...never see no sign [Elizabeth] ever sent [her] spirit out to hurt no one, and seeing I(Mary Warren) do live so closely with [her], they dismissed it.” However, Mary Warren was fine with

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