Mar
2019
The Crucible: Character change
In Act 1 of the crucible, Mary Warren is seen as a shy, anxious girl who is just a servant working for the Proctor family but as the play continues, she changes into a manipulative liar. When we were introduced to Mary in Act 1, she was an innocent girl that realized her mistake was a sin and wanted to confess.
MARY WARREN. What’ll we do? The village is out! I just come from the farms; the whole country’s talkin’ witchcraft! They’ll be callin’ us witches, Abby!
MERCY. She means to tell, I know it.
MARY WARREN. Abby, we’ve got to tell. Witchery’s a hangin’ error, a hangin’ like they done in Boston two years ago! We must tell the truth, Abby! You’ll only be whipped for dancin’, and the other things! (Miller 18)
Mary Warren was acting out of fear and understood that if they don’t tell the truth, the consequences will worsen. Abigail and the girls didn’t agree with her and threatened her to not confess. With Mary Warren’s weak personality, she is fearfully persuaded by Abigail. Later in Act 3, Mary Warren testifies for Proctor and his wife, as she confesses it doesn’t seem believable for the judges because she couldn’t prove her confession was true.
HATHORNE. You say you never saw no spirits, Mary, were never threatened or afflicted by any manifest of the Devil or the Devil’s agents.
MARY WARREN. No, sir.
HATHORNE. And yet, when people accused of witchery confronted you in court, you would faint, saying their spirits came out of their bodies and choked you-
MARY WARREN. That were pretense, sir. (Miller 98)
Her confession didn’t seem believable because she was unable to fake a faint for the judges but after the confession, there was peer pressure from the girls to continue with their lies. During Mary Warren’s testimony, Abigail realizes that it would expose her lies so she pretended to see a yellow bird in the sky. Mary Warren begs her to stop but it caused the rest of the girls to start repeating her words this was the peer pressure that made Mary Warren join the lies with the girls.
MARY WARREN. Don’t touch me- don’t touch me!
PROCTOR. Mary!
MARY WARREN, pointing at Proctor. You’re the Devil’s man! (Miller 110)
In the movie “The last song”, there were 2 boys that were responsible for a fire but they kept it a secret and didn’t the victims of the fire. One of the boys wanted to take responsibility and apologize to the victim but the other boy wanted it to stay a secret, this is a lot like Abigail and Marry Warren’s situation. Which is when one character wants to confess and the other doesn’t.
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Miller, Arthur. The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts. New York: Penguin Books, 2003. Print.
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shuwu21
March 21, 2019 at 8:34 am (5 years ago)Dear Evelyn
I like the topic that you chose. If I had chosen this topic, I would choose to write about Mary Warren too. I saw some grammar mistakes in your writing such as incomplete sentences and problems with capitalization. I think you will improve your post if you proofread it before you publish it. I think it’s interesting that you have successfully use the three evidence to analysis the change of Mary Warren. I think it is very well written. My only question is–can you explain what is the connection between the image and your writing? Because I can not understand what the image is trying to show. For the feeling that the picture gave me are Romele and Juliet, and I don’t know what is the idea that gave you to choose this image.
Henry Sha
March 23, 2019 at 6:16 pm (5 years ago)Hello Evelyn,
I really like the way how you use examples in the play to portray Mary Warren’s characteristic as shy and anxious including how her limited authority was not being valued in the play. I found it interesting since peer pressures could be one of the more powerful factors that make a person’s authority weaker or even diminish in real life as well. In my opinion, I also believed that peer pressure could be extremely powerful in certain ways. For example, if several people are all standing in a room even if there are enough chairs for everyone. The next person that walks into the room will be highly possible to stand as well since generally speaking people does not want to do things that extremely contrast or against the others which it is due to peer pressures.
In addition, I would like to know how did the author presents the importance of Mary Warren in despite her restricted authority in the play? I think Mary Warren should have emphasized her importance and existence so she could overcome her poor situation in “The Crucible”. Lastly. I really enjoy reading your post by also stating the connection between The Crucible and the other movie. Thank you and have a nice day!
hohsha21
March 23, 2019 at 7:01 pm (5 years ago)Hello Evelyn,
I really like the way how you use examples in the play to portray Mary Warren’s characteristic as shy and anxious including how her limited authority was not being valued in the play. I found it interesting since peer pressures could be one of the more powerful factors that make a person’s authority weaker or even diminish in real life as well. In my opinion, I also believed that peer pressure could be extremely powerful in certain ways. For example, if several people are all standing in a room even if there are enough chairs for everyone. The next person that walks into the room will be highly possible to stand as well since generally speaking people does not want to do things that extremely contrast or against the others which it is due to peer pressures.
In addition, I would like to know how did the author presents the importance of Mary Warren in despite her restricted authority in the play? I think Mary Warren should have emphasized her importance and existence so she could overcome her poor situation in “The Crucible”. Lastly. I really enjoy reading your post by also stating the connection between The Crucible and the other movie. Thank you and have a nice day!