Read the passage from The Crucible Act 2, Part 2 by Arthur Miller.
MARY WARREN (with an indignant edge): She tried to kill me many times, Goody Proctor!
ELIZABETH: Why, I never heard you mention that before.
MARY WARREN: I never knew it before. I never knew anything before. When she come into the court I say to myself, I must not accuse this woman, for she sleep in ditches, and so very old and poor. But then—then she sit there, denying and denying, and I feel a misty coldness climbin’ up my back, and the skin on my skull begin to creep, and I feel a clamp around my neck and I cannot breathe air; and then (entranced) I hear a voice, a screamin’ voice, and it were my voice—and all at once I remembered everything she done to me!
PROCTOR: Why? What did she do to you?
MARY WARREN (like one awakened to a marvelous secret insight): So many time, Mr. Proctor, she come to this very door, beggin’ bread and a cup of cider— and mark this: whenever I turned her away empty, she mumbled.
ELIZABETH: Mumbled! She may mumble if she’s hungry.
MARY WARREN: But what does she mumble? You must remember, Goody Proctor. Last month—a Monday, I think—she walked away, and I thought my guts would burst for two days after. Do you remember it?
Which theme does this scene help develop?
a. People interpret facts in a way that justifies their beliefs.
b. Witchcraft takes root in divided communities.
c .Honest people will win out over dishonest people.
d. Jealousy causes people to turn on each other.