What Does Mary Warren Symbolize In The Crucible

In the play The Crucible there is a big controversy over witchcraft. Some children were dancing in the woods with the slave and the Rev. caught them. So that they wouldn't get in trouble they lied to him saying it was witchcraft and that the slave girl made them do it. Then they start blaming people saying that they had seen them with the Devil. When they had not. Well the town went crazy thinking there were witches in there town. So when a person was asked if they were a witch and they said no then the townspeople said they were lying and would hang them. But if they had said they were and had ‘repented' and blamed someone else of being a witch they were free to go. But the story wasn't only about trying to save there lives if someone wanted land or another persons wife/husband then they would say that that person was a witch so they would get hanged and the person who wanted the land or spouse could have them without stealing or committing a crime.

This play was written in a time period when there was a similar controversial era. It was called the McCarthy era.
For instance Reverend Hale represents the publishers who refused to put Millers play put to the public even though they believed in what he was saying, they feared being accused themselves and they feared criticism. Marry Warren represents all the people who followed McCartney's accusations blindly. Abigail represents McCartney himself.

The Salem Witch Trials were a good metaphorical situation to the McCarthyism era because it showed how unrealistic the government was being in prosecuting innocent people for something that isn't even within the realms of possibility. Because a man says he has an invisible list of names, which he will never, show anyone. It shows the injustice of our so-called just courts. It shows the unfairness in so called fair trials. And the representation that no one really