Struggle of Marry Warren in the Crucible

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the Devil’s man! (He is stopped in his tracks.) I will not hang with you! I love God, I love God. (page…) Proctor who wants to save his life and prevent innocent people from hanging has pushed Mary fiercely. On the opposite side, the girls and the judges as well try to maintain their reputation and not stepping into trouble intimidate Mary to reverse the trial. With Proctor, Mary’s feeling is more than trying to justify Elizabeth’s innocence but also shows her respect, gratefulness and appreciation to the family. However, with all the others, it is always fear. Judge Hathorne and Danforth, representing the authority in the little town of Salem, blindly trust the girls and make Mary revise her deposition when Mary becomes helpless under the vivid acting of Abigail Williams and the girls who represent the social stress. Also Parris, who defends his fame and name so hard that his mind is blocked, puts a hundred innocent citizen’s life in danger. All these people surrounding Mary pushed her place Mary in a dilemma that while even she knows the truth, she is too afraid to say it out loud and becomes incapable of reflecting the process herself. Mary’s failure to take the pressure eventually brings about her changing testimony and blaming everything to John Proctor.

Despite Mary Warren’s paradoxical position in the witch trial, no one could deny that Mary has always wanted to become part of the teenage girls’ group and she never wants to be excluded from everything going on in the town. As a seventeen-year-old girl, Mary in the play The Crucible stands for the contradictory crowd in the “Red Hunts” in the states during the time period in the year of 1953. They might not be the center character of the event, but they were involved and turned into the essential witnesses that undertake the ability to reverse the complexion. Once they point their condemnation to someone, “blind” judges and the whole society would believe.

The play Crucible broadly presents Mary’s position and features the pack of people participating the “Red Hunt”. Mary Warren is an outsider but irreplaceable in the story. With regard to the complex situation which she has put herself in due to her conflictive personality, Mary Warren is the most innocent character in the trial with the greatest amount of guilt.

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. Collection. Ed.Kylene Beers. etal. Orlando: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2015, 457-539