Essay On Mary Warren In The Crucible

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“We must tell the truth Abby! You’ll only be whipped for dancin’ and other things!”. This was said by Mary Warren in The Crucible. It shows two of her character traits, that she is anxious and honest. Mary Warren was a teenage girl caught in the wrong place at the wrong time while she was “just watching” her friends dance in the woods. Throughout the play she was very conflicted with whether she should tell the truth or follow what Abigail told her to do. I can relate to Mary Warren because we both can be anxious, we have tendencies to be a follower rather than a leader, and we both can be honest.
Mary and I are both similar in that we both have tendencies to be anxious. After the girls danced in the woods, Mary was very nervous that they …show more content…

Mary’s conscience must have kicked in, because she decided to tell the truth and go to court with John Proctor. She finally told Judge Hathorne that the whole thing was pretense, nobody was actually a witch, and the girls were pretending to be sick. She later went back on her word because she was afraid she would be charged as a witch,but Mary was once again following Abigail. Honesty is the one quality I wish I did not have at times. Although it is a good thing to be truthful, there are a few times I wish I was not. I cannot tell a lie to save my life. Every time I have tried, I end up laughing or smiling, which makes it obvious to everybody that I am not telling the truth. When I was about five years old, my family and I were eating dinner. For some reason my parents left the room and I decided I did not want my food anymore, so i threw it away and placed a napkin over the chicken I was eating. When my parents came back they asked if I ate it all. I told them yes, but I started smiling, then my brothers started laughing. My dad knew we were up to something so he asked again if I ate everything. I guess the lie was too much for me to handle, because I started crying and showed them my chicken in the garbage

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