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When we were all kids, we all have seen our share of puppet shows right? Shows like Sesame Street, Lamb Chop, and even those freaky Muppets. Those entertaining puppets gave us countless hours of laughter, sadness, and enjoyment. But these puppets, as much as you like to think, couldn’t think by themselves. They were controlled to something stronger than them… something superior to them. The people who controlled the puppets could do with them whatever they please. In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, which takes place during the Salem witch trials, there is one character which acts like a puppet being controlled by whoever wishes to control her. Mary Warren, the Proctor’s servant, cannot make decisions for herself and relies on others to decide for her. Throughout the play, she changes from the hands of one puppet master, to another. In the beginning of the play when the accusing starts, Mary Warren is one of the accusers. Here she is being somewhat