Mary Warren

The Adverse Ministry In The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, a disease of closed-mindedness runs rampant among the ministers and authorities that take part in the town of Salem’s “witch trials”. Reverend Hale, a supposed “witch expert”, alongside his hypocritical partner, Deputy Governor Danforth have a particular case of rampant ignorance. In their joint obstinance, they bring to fruition the tragedy of the Salem witch trials, a set of hearings run solely by the spirit of vengeance, hate, and…

Legal Status of Abortion” Mary Anne Warren takes the position that abortion is morally permissible with no restrictions. I shall argue that Warren’s argument is inconsistent and can lead to different assumptions due to unclear points made in the argument. According to Warren the fetus is not a person therefore has no rights and not considered immoral to be killed. Warren argues that abortion should be legal with not restrictions or exceptions. In the argument given by Warren she centers her…

There was a needle in the poppet and that night Abigail gets stabbed by a needle, coincidence? One must not think so. Mary tells readers that Abigail saw her make it, Abigail saw the needle in it and jumped at the opportunity. She knew the poppet would be in Elizabeth’s house and she knew that if she was “stabbed” by a needle and Cheever saw the needle in the poppet he…

would be a sign that they are lying because she was sleeping until the attention was taken off of her. “Abby, stop it!” (pg.116) Mary Warren was forced by John Proctor to go the court and tell Danforth that the girls are lying to save his wife. The girls notice that Marry Warren is telling Danforth the truth about them so the girls turn on her and start accusing Marry Warren of witchcraft. Abigail is willing to get anyone killed to save herself. The people that were getting killed was innocent…

In The Crucible, Giles Corey acts as the foil character to John Proctor, showing courage and bravery where John was often a coward. Miller establishes that a person doesn’t need to be well known for their strong morals to have them and to be brave in using them. If they are known widely to be morally strong, they are still able to have moral flaws hidden by cowardice. Giles Corey is a man who is introduced first in the asides that Miller provides for the play. We learn that Corey is in his…

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…

In the Crucible, there are a lot of deaths, accusations of witchcraft, arguing & lies, but there is one person responsible for the problems happening in Salem. Abigail Williams is responsible for everything that is happening in Salem due to the cause of not admitting to doing witchcraft, threatening the young girls from Salem, accusing innocent people, & lying in court. In Act 1: scene one, The Crucible begins with Samuel Parris' daughter, Betty, who lays unconscious in her bed. Parris the…

At the beginning of the movie, some village girls are dancing in the forest. One of the girls, Abigail Williams, drinks the blood of a chicken and wishes for Elizabeth Proctor to die. Reverend Samuel catches the girls and they run off. The next morning, Betty Parris and Ruth Putnam, two of the girls that were dancing on the forest, will not wake up. The Reverend’s is visited by two men, Giles Corey, believes that the girls were just acting out, and John Proctor, Abigail’s former lover. The…

Abigail Williams, the manipulative niece of Parris, has the deeper wish to murder Goody Proctor, and take her place as John’s wife; this motive provokes her to drink blood and cast charms, to express evil’s existence in the courtroom, and to frame Elizabeth with a poppet--all of these causing conflict and excitement to rise in Salem. After having an affair with John, Abigail is dismissed from her job as a servant in the Proctor’s household; being away from her lover for so long makes Abby…

a witch. In act two Mary Warren tells John and Elizabeth about Abby accusing Elizabeth of being a witch and pretty much us warning them (Miller 28-29). This was Abby’s main plan to get Elizabeth out of her way. Another characteristic of Abby’s is she is manipulative. She uses all the girls that went into the forest with her as a way to get more people in the town defined as witches. They are all her followers and do everything that she wants them to do. She also has Mary Warren scared of her and…