Mary Warren In 'Stand Your Ground'

She didn’t have a stable father figure, just men in and out of her and her mother's lives. Mary continued to play an adult role, considering she made sure the bills were paid on time and making sure her mom always had enough money. “I always counted the out the rent money Momma kept in the coffee can above the stove. We were always short and Momma would yell at me for counting it wrong. I counted right; we were just short” (Jackson 35).

Mary Warren’s behavior foreshadow about her testimony in court by giving Elizabeth a doll she made, “a popper,” which later leads to her arrest. They found a needle inside the doll, in the same spot Abigail was stabbed in. She seems to be manipulated by Abigail, due to the fact that she feared to have to testify against her in court. “She’ll kill me for sayin’ that! Abby’ll charge lechery on you, Mr. Proctor!” Mary kept saying over and over again that she cannot, which also indicates that she knows that Abigail will do something terrible to her.

The Black Mary made Lily think about her life and what could be done to make it better. It made Lily think about the positives and negatives, and that she now had people to relate and connect to.

recantation was not taken as seriously as those of guilt. The only confessions the people wanted to accept were ones of guilt or ones that were accusing. It is very visible when viewing the case of Mary Warren. When she expressed any uncertainty, she was told to stow her doubts and imposed to go back to the delusions of her hallucinations. Moreover, Sarah Ingersoll’s testimony of Sarah Churchill’s recanting her confession was overlooked. Although, they listened to Sarah Ingersoll, they gave her testimony no weight or real mind. There were several women who confessed to the acts of witchcraft, and all of their lives were spared. Those who held onto their innocence were either jailed or sent to the gallows. One fact does remain, no one who

Mary Warren is seen throughout the play as being the lovable servant that is loyal to the Proctors and appears to pose no threat whatsoever. However, Mary holds a dark secret that the entire audience finds out in the middle of the play, she is a cold-hearted liar. Mary proves to be the second biggest liar in the entire play right behind Abigail as she will pick those who oppose her and will accuse them of witchcraft so that they may be silenced before they can continue with the truth. Mary proves this little claim true when she has both Elizabeth and John Proctor thrown in jail as they have both learned the truth and are making an attempt to stop everything that is happening. Mary Warren is probably the biggest liar in the story right behind Abigail Williams as she will turn against the family that gave her a place to sleep and a home to live in, in order to be saved by the truth that is leaking out.

Mary Warren is a girl who is faced with this inner turmoil throughout this play. At the outset of the play she is perceived to be a very shy girl who will never speak her mind as shown when

girls did or they will go against her. Mary is not only scared of the girls, but she is also scared of what the judges would do if they found out what she did. Mary has to hide the truth about what really happened with the girls in order to not get killed or hurt.

Mary’s importance is evident in Act 1 through her role in the group of the girls. Miller does this to show what little power she has within the group at the start of the play, compared to the end,

Throughout the course of Mary’s speech, she uses an emotional appeal to get through to her audience. Although Mary uses emotion, it is not always positive emotions. She chooses her words carefully in order to strike fear within the audience. “If you believe you are safe, you are at risk. If you do not see this killer stalking your children, look again.” Fisher compares AIDS to a killer coming for these parents children. A parent instinctively needs to protect their child. She raises the idea that AIDS is a predator hunting their children, and that they are failing to protect them. Mary makes descriptive images to support her emotional appeal. She states that this rampant disease was “littering it's pathway with bodies of the young.” Fisher uses the image of an innocent baby clinging to life in a hospital. She also attempted to instill a feeling of guilt within the audience. “You weep silently. You grieve alone. I have a message for you. It is not you who should feel shame. It is we -- we who tolerate ignorance and practice prejudice, we who have taught you to fear.” Mary first reminds the audience of the loneliness and depression that AIDS sufferers share. Then she's makes the effort to give the audience a guilty feeling. So that they may try and make up for it. Fisher uses fear, sadness, and guilt to support her appeal. Towards the end of her speech, she gains the sympathy of her audience by speaking

Mary Anne Warren argues in the position that abortion is morally permissible because the fetus is not a person therefore has no rights and not considered immoral to be killed. I shall argue that Warren’s argument in invalid since the claims of argument cannot be proven.

When she enters the bedroom, her voice changes from present to past tense and she starts to reminisce and begins to talk about her mother and aunts. She seems happy to remember her mother’s room and introduces her aunts to the audiences. Mary delivers her dialogue saying that the dressing table and the small elephant statue figures are all same. When Mary gently touches her mother’s photo, she delivers a sad tone. Her performance conveys to the audiences that she misses her mother. The tone of her voice represents that she is a gentle, innocent and a loving child. Her verbal and non-verbal interactions conveyed the viewers with a message that she is an orphan.

* Why did Mary defy Mr Neal? What did she achieve? What role does the character of Mary play in the text?

Arthur Miller Shows Mary Warren in different limelight’s of power. At the beginning of the play there is an aspect of her having no power but as you go through the play there seems to be shifts in her power. Miller uses Mary to demonstrate young, single women’s power and how when you have so much power it can just slip right out of your hands in one brief moment. Miller shows that power can be taken away pretty easily and quite absentmindedly from Mary Warren’s character. He demonstrates this by making her young and single and setting the scene to a subservient, naïve girl. This makes her prepared to answer and obey

As a leader and decider of many people, she had to uphold a brave and confident stance to allow the followers to have faith in her ability. To her family, she was still a woman with responsibilities to be an obedient daughter. The epitome of Mary is as stated, “And now, good subjects, pluck up your hearts, and like true men stand fast against these rebels, both our enemies and yours, and fear them not; for I assure you, I fear them nothing at all” (“Women in Power”, 668). Mary showed no fear and upheld a very manly position in this statement to keep the people strong.

Analyzing the word, "beautiful" in this stanza, one should perceive that she is not actually singing about the outside of her, but what she consists of emotionally and mentally on the inside. She reveals that her thoughts and emotions are of worth and value and they are of her opinion. They are consumed through her, and no one else and if anyone disagrees, she does not take that into affect. Her diction is actually pretty precise. To quote a famous cliché, beauty is not skin deep. She explains that the beauty is the sentiment.