Mary Warren

Mary Warren is a cowardly young girl who was one of the key accusers of the Salem Witch trials, in which thirty accused Salemites were executed and hundreds were imprisoned.

In the 1960s when the United States feared Communist spies, theater writer Arthur Miller (who himself was accused of being one) wrote a play based around the Witch Trials of 1692, and used it as a thinly-veiled metaphor for the Red Scare. It was entitiled The Crucible.

Personality
Mary was a very cowardly young girl as was shown when she was accusing the other Salemites as being witches as an attempt to spare her own life from the gallows. She also ultimately betrayed her master John when Abigail and the other girls were accusing her of sending her spirit out to torment them.