Arthur Miller Quotes

The Crucible, Act 3. Mary Warren finds her courage and integrity, when she decides to tell the truth to the court and risk the anger of Abigail and the girls. A deposition on her behalf is presented to the judges by Proctor, in which Mary swears that she saw neither spirits nor the Devil, despite her and the girls testified that they had. The irony is that Mary uses much the same words at the end of the act when she reverses her testimony again and returns to the lies of the other girls: "I love God, I bless God." Mary is a girl who is weak, fickle and easily manipulated.