Repetition: The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.
"Mr. Danforth! Mr. Danforth! Have you compacted with the Devil? Have you? Never, never! Never, never! Why can they only repeat you?" (Mary Warren, Girls, Mr. Danforth pg. 1312)
The author uses this scene to show that the girls are "seeing" evil spirits when they really aren't. The girls keep repeating whatever Mary Warren to make the judges believe that they have been taken over by the devil. Mary Warren keeps telling the judges the girls are lying and to stop the girls from pretending before she gets in trouble. The girls look up at the ceiling as if Mary Warren was flying when she was actually right beside them.
Mary Warren, to all the girls: I'm here, I'm here!
Girls: I'm here, I'm here!
Danforth, horrified: Marry Warren! Draw back your spirit out of them!
Mary Warren: Mr. Danforth!
Girls, cutting her off: Mr. Danforth!
Danforth: Have you compacted with the Devil? Have you?
Mary Warren: Never, never!
Girls: Never, never!
Danforth, growing hysterical: Why can they only repeat you?
Proctor: Give me whip - I'll stop it!
Mary Warren: They're sporting. They-!
Girls: They're sporting!
Mary Warren, turning to them hysterically and stamping her feet: Abby, stop it!
Girls, stamping their feet: Abby, stop it!
Mary Warren: Stop it!
Girls: Stop it!
Mary Warren, screaming it out at the top of her lungs, and raising her fists: Stop it!!
Girls, raising their fists: Stop it!!
Mary Warren
Description: Scared, Good girl, Weak
Mary Warren is John and Elizabeth Proctor's servant at their house. She made a poppet while she was at church and then gave it to Elizabeth. With Mary Warren giving Elizabeth the poppet, it puts Elizabeth in a horrible situation. Mary Warren then confessed that all the evil things that they had seen was all a lie.
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