The Crucible: Personal Turmoil
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The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a play that takes place in the sixteen nineties during the famous but tragic Salem Witch Trials. Although the entire community is in pandemonium, there are certain characters that are fighting internal conflicts of their own. In Millers’ play, there are ....
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.... home" (Miller, 21). As the play continues and as Abigail, the antagonist, influences her, Mary begins to break this self-induced mold. Mary Warren, along with many other girls, gets caught up in all the attention and power of initiating and adamantly continuing these "Witch Trials". Finally, John Proctor, the rationalist farmer, shows Mary that when people like Rebecca Nurse and Elizabeth Proctor, who are the saintliest of people, are accused of being witches, something must be wrong. Thus, Ma ....
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