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The Crucible; Mary warren

Uploaded by kelizabeth on Sep 04, 2008

Who is Mary Warren? Is she just a servant in the Procter household….or is she more? I see Mary Warren as a pawn, a child and she is very naïve. Are you looking a little harder? Do you see more aspects or Mary Warren than you did before? Let us now take a closer look at this character….
Mary Warren was hired to the Procter household by Elizabeth Procter after she caught Abigail Williams (their old servant) in the midst of an affair with her husband, John Procter. Abigail Williams still wants to be with John however, and is using everyone around her to get what she wants. An excellent display of Abigail’s selfish use of Mary Warren is when she puts a needle into a doll Mary makes; After Mary Warren makes a doll in court one day, she gives it to Elizabeth Procter, not knowing that Abigail secretly stuck a needle into its belly. Later this end up being ‘proof’ that Elizabeth Procter was practicing witchcraft when Ezekiel Cheever finds the doll in the Procter household in Act II, and exclaims to everyone, “The girl, the Williams girl, Abigail Williams, sir. She sat down to dinner in Reverend Parris’s house tonight, and without a word nor warnin’ she falls to the floor. Struck like a beast he says, and screamed that a bull would weep to hear. And he goes to save her and stuck in the flesh of her belly, he draws a needle out. And demandin’ of her how she came to be so stabbed, she testify were your wife's familiar spirit pushed it in” (Miller 70) and, “’Tis hard proof! I find here a poppet Goody Procter Goody Procter keeps. I have found it Sir. And in the belly of the poppet a needle’s stuck” (Miller 71). Abigail Williams is trying to make it look like after Mary Warren gave the poppet to Elizabeth, and Elizabeth then used it as a voodoo doll against her (Abigail) - Mary is merely a pawn in Abigail’s quest to rid herself of Elizabeth Procter. Later in Act II, Mary goes to court to testify against Abigail and the girls but the whole time Mary is trying to present her case they make it look like Mary Warren is sending her spirit at them by...

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Uploaded by:   kelizabeth

Date:   09/04/2008

Category:   Literature

Length:   5 pages (1,081 words)

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