Some others who are tested by intense moments and wavered. When proctor attempts in a last desperate move to save his Elizabeth from false accusations of witchcraft he resorts to summon his servant Mary Warren to the court, to reveal the truth about the girl's dancing in the woods and Abigail's lies, but when she sees the intensity and the escalating of the accusations she is overtaken by fear ( Porter 188 ).
What adds to Mary's fear is that her confession only serves to increase Danforth's alleged piety as he states "The laws, based upon the Bible and the Bible writ by Almighty God, forbid the practice of Witchcraft… Likewise, the law and Bible damn all bearers of false witness" ( III. iii. 102). Thus Mary Warren realizes she is damned if she confesses and damned if she does not. Her determination wavers under such a pressure and she embraces deceit as truth again. She turns on Proctor when she screams at him telling him that she loves God and telling him he's the man of the devil and turns to Abby to apologize (III .iii. 118).
Reverend John Hale, who is first described as with having a deep love for intellectual pursuit soon discovers that life as he knows from books is completely different when tested by ordeals. While he attempts to be the voice of reason against …show more content…
Under the heat of The Crucible in which Elizabeth is tested, she comes to the result that faith without mercy is no faith at all (Atkinson 219 ).When it comes to Proctor himself, whose sin of adultery has riddled him with such a heavy and unbearable guilt, when he finds forgiveness in the eyes of his wife, he confesses the false confession and signs but can not hand it over. When Danforth asks him to, he replies "because it is my name! I can
What adds to Mary's fear is that her confession only serves to increase Danforth's alleged piety as he states "The laws, based upon the Bible and the Bible writ by Almighty God, forbid the practice of Witchcraft… Likewise, the law and Bible damn all bearers of false witness" ( III. iii. 102). Thus Mary Warren realizes she is damned if she confesses and damned if she does not. Her determination wavers under such a pressure and she embraces deceit as truth again. She turns on Proctor when she screams at him telling him that she loves God and telling him he's the man of the devil and turns to Abby to apologize (III .iii. 118).
Reverend John Hale, who is first described as with having a deep love for intellectual pursuit soon discovers that life as he knows from books is completely different when tested by ordeals. While he attempts to be the voice of reason against …show more content…
Under the heat of The Crucible in which Elizabeth is tested, she comes to the result that faith without mercy is no faith at all (Atkinson 219 ).When it comes to Proctor himself, whose sin of adultery has riddled him with such a heavy and unbearable guilt, when he finds forgiveness in the eyes of his wife, he confesses the false confession and signs but can not hand it over. When Danforth asks him to, he replies "because it is my name! I can