Mary used to be a sympathetic and
weak girl; however, she changed at the act three. Mary was one of the girls who
were caught by dancing in the forest. She was part of the court that denounces witches.
She seemed to enjoy the power that Abigail “gave” her. When more and more innocent
people began to be accused, she started to feel guilty. She made a poppet for Elizabeth,
which gave a chance to Abigail for accusing Elizabeth. This made Mary feel so
terrible that she agreed to testify against with John.
Mary plucked up her courage, she
went to the court, confessed that she was just pretending to be witched. There was
no devil. When Danforth asked the others girls whether they were pretending or
not, the girls began to act like they were bewitched by Mary. Mary told them to
stop, but they just repeated everything she said. Mary gave in to the pressure
gradually. She started to sob, confessing that John made her sign her name in Devil
and convinced her to testify against Abigail in court. I thought that Mary may
save the innocent people at first, but now she rejoined the girls again. I cannot
say that she is a bad girl. Though she brought John’s name up in court, I know
that she just wants to save her own life.
By reading your analysis on Mary’s changes, I can understand easily of her differences of personality from Act 1 to Act 3; which she changed from sympathetic and weak to brave and to dishonest. I think you did a really good job on finding examples such as making a poppet, confessing, and maligning John for what he had not done. I think maybe you can improve this by adding some quotes instead of only telling what had happened in the story because it can be more supportive and maybe you can expand the part the reason why she changed in this way. But overall, Well Done!
ReplyDeleteBy reading your article I can clearly understand that how much has Mary been changed, from how weak she was to how strong she is right now, very good job.
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