Mary Warren and Themes

MARY WARREN

 Ever since act one Mary has been the good girl, or better than the other girls. When all the other girls were dancing in the woods, Mary was standing in the back watching them. She knows right from wrong, but still she is weak because she plays along with the girls so they wont punish her. A push-over. She is easily manipulated by Abigail.

Later on she tells John Procter about them faking it and accusing anyone theyd like. Mary and John goes to court and tells the truth, but she is not believed because the other girls start to pretend that Mary has turned to the devil and that she has sent her spirit on them.

Towards the end of the play, Mary start to lie again to get back into the other girls little group of crazyness. She turns on John and tells everyone he is the Devil and how he used to come to her bed asking her to sign the devils book.

Marry Warren is a good person, but due to her weakness she is very easily manipulated and plays along with the other girls.

THEMES OF THE STORY

The main themes of the story is religion, fear of the unknown, love and reputation.

RELIGION:
In Salem at the time the religion was everything, it was very strickt and praising God and to be at his service was the greatest thing they could do. And believing in heaven they believed in hell. So they were very scarred of hell, and they used "hell" to make people go to church and to be good christians.

FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN:

They were scarred of anything they didnt know. Like witches. So whenever they started to point fingers at oneanother people went nuts. And because they knew nothing but the Bible, there were a lot of things they didnt know and werent used to. So having slaves would be a problem. Another culture another way of life, they had no idea of. So when Tituba were singing and sometimes talking a different language- it was the language of the devil.

LOVE:

One of the main themes is love. Their love to God and their love to eachother. The love between husdbans and wifes, as the wifes were being hanged or accused. The love between especially John procter and his wife Elizabeth. And ofcourse the love, or affair, between John and Abigail. And then again Abigails love to power.

REPUTATION:

All the people in Salem are afraid to loose their good reputation and their "good name in the village". Also when it came to the accusations, most of them said no(eventhough they would hang, and live if they confessed) because they didnt want to loose their trust and reputation in Salem. At the end of the story John signs a paper confessing, but then turns around and tear up the paper yelling " IT IS MY NAME" and hangs for it. And Elizabeth says "He got his goodness now, i cant take that away from him" to Reverend Hale, when he tells her to make him confess and stop him from being hanged.

XOXO GOSSIP GIRL