Read the passage from The Crucible, Act 2, Part 2 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, 1
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?
The Crucible Act 2 Part 2