Why has Mary Warren disobeyed her employers and gone to Salem? its in second act
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Mary has been appointed to the council. She feels this makes her an important person now, no longer a simple servant.
She places her new found responsibility above any obligation she has to John, saying, "So I'll be gone every day for some time. I'm -- I'm an official of the court."
John, who loathes the court, does not take kindly to her announcement or defection. He comes after Mary with a whip. But she stands her ground. Miller writes that though "terrified," she stands "erect, striving for her authority."
Mary goes on to tell John that it was she who defends Elizabeth against the accusations of withcraft which have been leveled against her. Unmoved, John orders Mary to "go to bed." She replies, (with a stamp of her foot that undermines her supposed maturity), "I'll not be ordered to bed no more. I am eighteen, and a woman, however single!"
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