The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, tells the story about a tangle of lies, misunderstandings, and deaths in the town of Salem during the time of witch trials. In the story, Abigail Williams along with a group of girls who follow her, between they Mary Warren, are responsible for falsely accusing the vast majority of people in the town of alleged relationships with the Devil, an act that the highest authorities believe. In this occasion, Miller treats topics such as integrity, revenge, guilt, and intolerance among others, issues that are related to the context of paranoia because of communism in which the play was written and which in fact can still be seen today. In the play, Mary Warren is one of the girls who follow the fraud of Abigail to end up being an example of how lack of character causes the death of the virtuous and the victory of the liar.
Mary Warren “is seventeen, a subservient, naive lonely girl” (Miller 1267). She is the servant girl of the Proctors and as the other girls, she was present and participated in the events that occurred on the woods that eventually would lead them to condemn others in order to save themselves. Since she is naive she follows the group on the fraud even though she knows and states that what they have done its wrong, …show more content…
Copying what the others were doing was the biggest sin of this seventeen girl, she does not think what her actions may cause or even why she is doing them. When she tries to do the right thing she isn’t strong enough to keep her position and leads a bunch of people to their deaths. Mary Warren is just another example of how people who have a voice or the power to stop a disaster like the one that is presented on The Crucible but does not do anything about it, can be even more dangerous than the intellectual author of a
Mary Warren “is seventeen, a subservient, naive lonely girl” (Miller 1267). She is the servant girl of the Proctors and as the other girls, she was present and participated in the events that occurred on the woods that eventually would lead them to condemn others in order to save themselves. Since she is naive she follows the group on the fraud even though she knows and states that what they have done its wrong, …show more content…
Copying what the others were doing was the biggest sin of this seventeen girl, she does not think what her actions may cause or even why she is doing them. When she tries to do the right thing she isn’t strong enough to keep her position and leads a bunch of people to their deaths. Mary Warren is just another example of how people who have a voice or the power to stop a disaster like the one that is presented on The Crucible but does not do anything about it, can be even more dangerous than the intellectual author of a