The Crucible, Herbert reflects the theme that pressure can force people to do something that they don't like or in order to fit in or to stay out of trouble. The characters in The Crucible have to be accepted into the town and church. It is a struggle to keep these values when there are moral hazards like desires, greed, hate, and obsession.Mary Warren has many pressures from her peers and her peers are a big influence to her because she is a teenager. Mary Warren wouldn't have been in the trails as a huge problem but she was drag when Abigail framed her with a "voodoo" doll for Elizabeth Proctor. Mary Warren really gets drag ...view middle of the document...
Right from when readers first meet proctor Miller shows him as the troublemaker or rebel of the play. John Proctor in the past has already committed adultery with Abigail, which is not acceptable in the Bible and in the town of Salem. When Proctor and Mrs. Proctor was in at the court, he confessed that he and Abigail had had relations, but this would not stop Proctor because his pride would not let him stop here... John Proctor showed he had the amount of will power when he ripped up his confession paper. When he cried, "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!" This powerful statement also shows that he had been pressured into lying. Proctor would not let that paper get posted outside of the church doors because Proctor wants to keep the Honor of his name and the honor of his family. He did not what his wife and children growing older getting mocked.Mary's feeble attempt at recompense backfires terribly, however, as Abigail uses the poppet to frame Elizabeth for witchcraft. This, of course, makes Mary feel even worse and she agrees to go with John Proctor and testify against Abigail in court. Mary's ultimately spineless nature is revealed in the court scene, when under pressure of being hanged she once again flips, accusing John Proctor of witchcraft and Devil worship.
