The Devil’s loose in Salem, Mr. Proctor; we must discover where he’s hiding!
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 2. Flaunting her new power as an "official of the court," Mary Warren makes her contribution to the growing hysteria about devil worship rampaging through Salem. Proud that she has joined the hunt for the Devil, she presents herself as being on the right side of the battle between good and evil. But the irony is that the real evil in Salem is in the form of the lies of Mary and the other attention-seeking girls, the greed of adults and a court that follows the maxim of "guilty until proven innocent."