Mary Warren

Mary Warren goes to court with Proctor to testified she never saw any spirits at all. This makes the judge, Danforth, believe Abigail might have seen an illusion instead of a ghost. Abigail was going crazy and made a threat saying to the judge, “Let you beware…

Pointing Fingers Facing The Invisible Audience During the 1950s, the United States evolved from a stable country to a nation filled with terror and suspicion. This unfortunate event took place, by the cause of a senator named Joseph McCarthy. He, who had the power to express a convincing speech, convincingly shared accusatory confessions to the public relating to people, in the government, following communism beliefs. This lead to Arthur Miller writing the play The Crucible, because many people,…

Elizabeth of being a witch. Mary warren then comes home to tell Elizabeth and proctor of the news she had heard in court. Abigail takes revenge upon Elizabeth proctor. She goes and then accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft. “I am being falsely accused?” (Miller 149) this is Elizabeth trying to process who could have accused her of being a witch. She (Mary Warren) refuses to tell Elizabeth who accused her of witchcraft, because she swore to the court. Elizabeth, Mary Warren, and proctor were greeted…

occur.9 The town of Salem all started being paranoid, and because of the already rigorous society people lived in, the mentality of civilians were not stable any longer.9 Mass hysteria majorily affects main characters including Abigail WIlliams, Mary Warren, and Tituba. Abigail Williams was a very jealous woman, wanting to always get back at people for their mistakes.10 The hysteria majorily played a role into her life and the people that she accused of witchcraft. She has sent a shocking number…

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller each of the main characters played a role in causing the events that occurred. Abigail Williams and John Proctors affair was probably one of the biggest reasons for the events that occurred in Salem during the year 1692. In The Crucible it was Abigail Williams’s flaws – Dishonesty, Jealousy, and Lust – that led her to be most responsible for the tragedy of the witch-hunt in Salem. Abigail showed dishonesty by saying that Elizabeth Proctor always kept…

proven when Proctor decides to stop his affair with Abigail in love for his wife. Both of Proctor and Abigail's motivations lead to the disastrous consequence of Proctor being guilty in court where Abigail states that a spirit is coming out of Mary Warren and Mary then responds by saying that Proctor is "the Devil's man"(Miller 110). Instead of Proctor and Abigail's motivations, the actions they made is another way that Miller displays that…

Few characters in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible do suffer with integrity through the trials, unlike everybody else. A few of these characters include, John and Elizabeth Proctor, and Rebecca Nurse. None of these folks will give up the person they are to confess to a lost cause. First, Abigail accuses Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft, even though everybody knows the woman would never lie to anyone. The men come to arrest her, so Elizabeth goes willingly because she knows it is better for her family…

do is blame Elizabeth for something. If she was not so selfish she would not have set up Elizabeth by sending Mary Warren in with a poppet. “conjures me? Why no sir, I am entirely myself, I think, let you ask Susanna Walcott. She saw me sewing it in court or better still ask, Abby sat beside me when I made it” (Miller, 76). She did not even tell her friend what she was doing. After Mary told Cheever that, he said “The girl, the Williams girl, Abigail Williams, Sir, she sat at dinner in reverend…

In Massachusetts women were accused of being witches, for vengeance and were put to death after doing nothing wrong. The Crucible is a book about a group of girls lead by a devious girl named Abigail, who start a crazy movement in which everyone is being accused of witchcraft. John Proctor is a hypocrite in the beginning of the book but does not realize his hypocrisy until after the emotional wall he has built was broken down because of the witch trials. John Proctor is a hypocrite in the…

The word crucible is defined as a pot that can withstand great heat, a severe test or trial, or as a way to describe a very high grade of steel. All three of these definitions can describe Elizabeth Proctor, a character in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. In the play, Elizabeth withstood a large amount of trouble, or “heat,” and went through a hard trial or test in her life. A very high grade of steel can also describe Elizabeth because she is a “high grade” or admirable person. Within the play,…