By the end of Act III of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the trial has become a total farce, with testimonies given under duress, refuted and then changed again until the prospect of a just resolution, already impossible, is rendered even more remote. Mary Warren’s attacks on John Proctor are putting the final nails in his coffin following Abigail’s machinations, prompting Parris to exclaim of Mary, “Cast the Devil out! Look him in the...
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