Mary Warren In The Crucible

There are many characters that Arthur Miller has written about in The Crucible that have many meaning. Mary Warren is a character of importance and shows examples of a lesson that many people need to learn today. Demonstrating qualities of being a coward, fearful, and a very dishonest, the character of Mary Warren is developed by Arthur Miller in order to support lesson that many people need to learn today that if we do not learn from the past that history will repeat itself. Mary Warren is a coward. She demonstrates this quality throughout the entire book. The scene that sticks out to me the most is when John Proctor is trying to save his wife, and trying to get Marry Warren to tell the truth that she really don’t see the devil inside all of the people that are about to be hanged. He was hoping that all the girls would follow Mary’s example (Miller, 108). Another good example is when Marry and all the girls are in Betty’s room they are all cowards when they don’t want to admit to the fact
The fact that she is calling witchcraft on anyone is dishonest, also goes with the fact that she is a coward. When John Proctor tries to get Mary to tell the truth and be honest to help his wife and unborn child and all the other people who were blamed for witchcraft, Mary is a coward and stays dishonest and keeps telling lies to keep her out of trouble. The dishonesty starts at the beginning, with the fact that Mary and all the girls do not want to admit that they are dancing in the woods. The lies take off from there (Miller, 45). They never did tell the truth and become honest about anything. I think that Arthur Miller is trying to say that once you are a dishonest person, it is very hard to tell the truth because you are just used to telling lies. It is hard to stop telling lies, because if you start to tell the truth you find yourself in the middle of all the lies that you have started telling in the first