The visions and accusations that Mary Warren mentions in Act II are due to the mass hysteria that she is being exposed to. I believe that she is "caught up in the moment" and is following what the other girls are doing at first. Once she begins to do this on a daily basis, she begins to think that she really sees or feels what she is pretending to see or feel. This is evident when we get to Act III, and Mary Warren can not prove to the judges nor can she explain to the judges why she can not faint at this point when, meanwhile, she had been pretending to do it for weeks prior.
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