A. Mary Anne Warren in the chapter “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion and Postscript on Infanticide” discusses her views on pro-abortion. Warren explains how a fetus has not reached enough development to be considered a person. In order for a being to be considered a person they must have a list of five traits. The first is “consciousness”‚ specifically the facility to feel emotions externally and internally‚ such as pain. The second is “reasoning”‚ the capability to finding solutions to
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characters‚ Mary Warren‚ historically was the oldest accuser of the Salem witch trials. She ended up confessing that the girls made up their accusations‚ but they turned on her and she ended up accused of witchcraft. In the beginning of The Crucible‚ Mary acts submissively and very rarely states her own opinion‚ but near the end she finally begins to
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village is Mary Warren. Even though Mary is John Proctor’s maid‚ and claims she will always do the right thing‚ she needs the help of Abigail Williams. Although‚ Mary is afraid of Abigail and all the things she can do‚ Abigail is known for being deceitful and clever‚ and that is exactly what Mary Warren wants to be when the time comes. Mary Warren gets herself out of trouble with Judge Danforth and Hathorne during the trials because she learned how to be just like Abigail. Throughout the play‚ Mary shows
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Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ the character Mary Warren household maid at John Proctor house.In Act One Mary Warren is just this innocent girl who minded her business. She was also one the girls that had a met up in the woods when everything went to hell. As we were shown Marry Warren was the manipulative kind in act 1 but in Act 2 she changed‚ she was more involved because of the poppet. Mary wanted to tell the true story about what happened in the woods but she also does not want to do it because
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The Crucible – Mary Warren Mary Warren is a young servant girl whose ethics are challenged when she becomes afflicted with terror and intimidation. She is a maid for John Proctor‚ and becomes involved in the Salem witch hunt as one of the accusers‚ led by Abigail Williams. Mary Warren is a very weak person in the play‚ who gives in to pressure a number of times. Proctor manages to convince her to reveal that she and the other accusers have been fabricating their stories and ‘supernatural experiences’
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Personhood status and its consequences In the article‚ On the legal and moral status of abortion‚ Mary Anne Warren (1973) states that biological humanity is irrelevant‚ to achieve satisfactory evaluation on the moral permissibility of abortion we need to consider the personhood status of fetus. Through her criteria of personhood she determines that fetus is not a person; therefore‚ abortion is morally permissible. Her argument is certainly deductively valid; however‚ it is unsound because personhood
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Status of Abortion‚ Mary Anne Warren defines personhood‚ what defines a human being‚ with five concepts and the need to meet the majority of them(SOURCE). Warren affirms consciousness‚ reasoning‚ self-motivated activity‚ the capacity to communicate‚ and the presence of self- concept as the five components of personhood. Furthermore‚ she claims if an entity does not possess one of the five it should not be extended the moral rights as a person. Not all human beings are people. Warren labels the fetus
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their personalities advance throughout the story. Three characters that go through an influential and drastic change in the beginning half of the play are Mary Warren‚ John Proctor and Reverend Parris. Overall‚ although most of the characters in the story had a slight conversion‚ certain characters’ changes overshadowed others. To begin‚ Mary Warren is initially a poor treated servant in the Proctor household who is very timid‚ demure and easily
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Mary Anne Warren argued that fetus is a human being but not a person‚ which only persons have full moral rights. What is human being? What is person? Is it right for a woman to carry out abortion? In this essay‚ we will pinpoint at commenting her criteria on personhood. It is useful to look beyond for us to decide whether other beings like aliens are a person or not. If we want to be sure of behaving morally towards these beings‚ we have to somehow decide whether they are people‚ and hence
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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
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