... by Arthur Miller, illustrates fear, greed, ambition, revenge, and jealousy, and how each of them led to the loss of many innocent lives in Salem, MA, in 1692. Abigail Williams, Ann and Thomas Putnam, and Reverend Parris had personal motives that contributed to the outbreak of hysteria in Salem Village. Abigail Williams, the child who started all the hysteria, had three ... they were charged with witchcraft he could then buy their land and increase his personal wealth. This resulted in the loss of innocent lives and chaos in the village. Abigail, Ann and Thomas Putnam weren't the only th...

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... she came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there to hang till she was dead."" Five weeks later, the woman known as Ann Hibbins was hanged because she was a "witch-. (Karlsen, 1) Though the tragedy of the Boston dates way before the Salem trials, it is ... At the same time, Boston minister Cotton Mather published a book, Memorable Provinces, which mentioned a woman with similar symptoms like Betty. The friends of Betty; Ann Putnam, Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott, also began to show symptoms of bewitchment. Dr. William Griggs, the same physician who examined Betty, brought to ...

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... slave Tituba, who was brought over from the island of Barbados, which Mr. Parris inherited from his father. Tituba was beaten until she confessed to being a witch. Ann Putnam, the daughter of Thomas Putnam (who basically ran the town), was one of the main leaders of the girls who made the accusations against all the accused, she ... their loved ones. They also felt hurt because they had been trusted people who then lied to them. Ann Putnam was the only girl to come back and make public apology to the town's people after the trials. Ann confessed that most of her testimonies were staged wi...

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... slave Tituba, who was brought over from the island of Barbados, which Mr. Parris inherited from his father. Tituba was beaten until she confessed to being a witch. Ann Putnam, the daughter of Thomas Putnam (who basically ran the town), was one of the main leaders of the girls who made the accusations against all the accused, she ... their loved ones. They also felt hurt because they had been trusted people who then lied to them. Ann Putnam was the only girl to come back and make public apology to the town's people after the trials. Ann confessed that most of her testimonies were staged wi...

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... Elizabeth told him that she cold no longer judge his sins and that she had forgiven him all she could. The emotions that Ann Putman felt toward Goody Nurse were those that could only be felt by a grieving mother. When the town screamed witchcraft ... , Ann Putman finally had a person she could blame. All of Ann's children had died at birth except for Ruth, and then even Ruth had been bewitched. The one person in town, Goody Nurse, which had been with Ann during all her deliveries, was blessed with many children and ... grandchildren. Out of pure vengeance, Ann Putman claimed that Goody ...

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... to mention that Tituba is married to John Indian. The Putnam family really consists of a daughter named Ann, not Ruth. The mother was referred to as "Ann Putnam Senior" and the daughter as "Ann Putnam Junior." Miller most likely changed these names simply to keep his play less complicated. In the play ... and she has only one child. In reality she did have a lot of miscarriages, but she did have seven other living children including Ann. The Proctors have many more family members than what is mentioned in the play. Elizabeth was Proctor's third wife and there were other family ... Mathe...

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... as neighbors accuse neighbors of witchcraft in search of an explanation for misfortunes. The townspeople attempt to cleanse their town of all evil, but in turn they hang innocent people. Ann Putnam is a good example of a townsperson in pursuit of the truth. She has lost seven of her babies and is in search of a reason for their deaths. She ... Goody Nurse, one of the town's noble women, for the murder of her babies. She says, " who else may surely tell us who murdered my babies"(page 1180). Ann Putnam feels that since Goody Nurse had been the mid-wife for her babies, she must be the one ...

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... most local communities including Salem town would have reported outbreaks in juvenile. Another reason is that the girls truly could have been bewitched but Ann Putnam later admitted that no evil hand touched them. So either way someone was contradicting someone else. "I have very often been most ... they told her to kill Elizabeth Hubbard, with a knife. Later, at Thomas Putnam's house, the witches tried to slit the throat of twelve-year old Ann Putnam Junior. - Again with a knife (the weapon Medea had used)" (Discovery at Salem). During Tituba's confession she confessed to seeing red rat...

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... most local communities including Salem town would have reported outbreaks in juvenile. Another reason is that the girls truly could have been bewitched but Ann Putnam later admitted that no evil hand touched them. So either way someone was contradicting someone else. "I have very often been most ... they told her to kill Elizabeth Hubbard, with a knife. Later, at Thomas Putnam's house, the witches tried to slit the throat of twelve-year old Ann Putnam Junior. - Again with a knife (the weapon Medea had used)" (Discovery at Salem). During Tituba's confession she confessed to seeing red rat...

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... -law from being elected to the office of minister. He uses the witch trials to increase his own wealth by accusing people of witchcraft and then buying up their land. Ann Putnam Thomas Putnam's wife. Ann Putnam has given birth to eight children, but only Ruth Putnam survived. The other seven died before they were a day old, and ... Ann is convinced that they were murdered by supernatural means. Ruth Putnam The Putnams' lone surviving child out of eight. Like Betty Parris, Ruth falls into a strange stupor after Reverend Parris ... of people like Proctor who question his authority. The w...

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... been grateful with what he already had and owned he would not have caused so much trouble between the society and the town. Ann Putnam accuses Rebecca Nurse of being a witch because all Rebecca's babies survives and when Ann was giving birth Rebecca was the nurse and all her babies died. She felt that Rebecca had cursed her and her children. She ... then felt that something must have been going on if all her babies died and none of Rebecca's died. Instead of Ann accuses Rebecca right away she could have looked into the births of her own children. She didn't even think of all the other b...

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... to pay off her prison bill (Hill, 303). A lot of the information about the afflicted girls is scarce, but there is a little information on two of them, Abigail Williams and Ann Putnam. Abigail wasn't liked very much by the community even before the trials began. She was a troublemaker characterized as mean spirited. Many people blamed her for starting the fortune telling ... from an undiagnosed mental disorder. That could be why she acted out instead of marrying to escape unscathed, like many of the other girls who were accusers did (Kallen, 83). Ann Putnam lived a hard life. A few year...

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... Posey 2 learn the ways of voodoo. As time progressed a lot more girls started participating in the fun. Mary Warren, 20, Mercy Lewis, 19, Elizabeth Hubbard, 19, Mary Walcott, 16, and Ann Putnam Jr., 12, all frequently attended these mystic meetings. One day, at a normal meeting in the woods, Revered Parris wonders on to the girls dancing around a fire. The girls are ... power in the now twisted society. Anyone could accuse anyone and some started using greed and vanity to get what they wanted. The next to be accused was Martha Corey. Ann Putnam Jr. accused Martha of witchcraft towards h...

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... Massachusetts Bay Colony charter to associate witchcraft with God's anger. So, to repel this, they made sure that every last witch be discovered and punished. [Rediscovering America] In following months Ann Putnam accused a church attending Martha Corey of afflicting her due to her outspoken nature and bastard child, both of which derailed ideals of Puritan religion and ways of life. Rebecca ... Nurse was also accused of witchcraft. She was a 71 year old woman who was kind and well liked. Ann Putnam and the other girls spoke of her ghost and how it would "float into their rooms at night...

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... , John Proctor, and John Willard were all hanged on Gallows Hill. In early September, Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar, Mary Bradbury, Margaret Scott, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Abigail Faulkner, Rebecca Eames, Mary Lacy, Ann Foster, and Abigail Hobbs were tried and condemned. On September 19, Giles Corey was killed for refusing a trial, being the only ... last words "More weight." Dorcas Hoar was the first of those pleading innocent to confess. Her execution was delayed. In Mid-September Martha Corey, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Pa...

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... to pay off her prison bill (Hill, 303). A lot of the information about the afflicted girls is scarce, but there is a little information on two of them, Abigail Williams and Ann Putnam. Abigail wasn"t liked very much by the community even before the trials began. She was a troublemaker characterized as mean spirited. Many people blamed her for starting the fortune telling ... from an undiagnosed mental disorder. That could be why she acted out instead of marrying to escape unscathed, like many of the other girls who were accusers did (Kallen, 83). Ann Putnam lived a hard life. A few year...

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... 't the first time that Parris and Proctor have come into conflict. This new contention is only further fueled by the accusations of witchcraft spilling from the lips of Thomas and Ann Putnam and the girls. The enmity of Parris and Proctor comes up again in Act III when Proctor arrives in the court to try and free his wife and the ... . Miller's stage direction on page 12 describes him as "hard-handed."" There is no mercy for his debtors or those he views as an enemy.  Furthermore, he and his wife, Ann Putnam, immediately leap to witchcraft as the source of their troubles. His only daught...

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... witches who were bringing such horrible events to their village. The children still were not able to come up with names for their perpetrators until a little thirteen-year-old girl, Ann Putnam, cried out the name of Martha Corey. Corey, like Osborne, was not poor at all. While she was being tried, Martha Corey had the audacity to laugh at questions ... labeled herself as a "Gospel-woman." Her presence and attitude during the trial led many to believe that she was in fact guilty of practicing witchcraft. From this point on, after Ann Putnam's accusation, the females of Salem showed no he...

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... with an older, married man better than they could picture an 11 year old. John Proctor was actually not a farmer, but rather a tavern keeper and Elizabeth was his third wife. Ann Putnam was not one of the first to become "afflicted" but rather Abigail Williams along with Elizabeth Parris was. In reality, Tituba never lead any wild dancing in the woods ... do tests and "magic spells" to find their future husbands, but these were all innocent adolescent games. Among the children was the Putnam's daughter. Her name was not Ruth, but Ann, like her mother, probably changed so the audience wo...

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... rid of them? It is not right, and this is creating a big circle of deception. I heard a story the other day of a great and generous 71-year-old woman, Rebecca Nurse. Ann Putnam and several other girls testified that Rebecca Nurse" ghost would drift into their rooms at night. Rebecca Nurse is a typical woman has never done anything wrong. Such a great woman ... , with such a heart should never have been accused. And why did Ann Putnam make accusations against Rebecca Nurse? The reason is that apparently there have been feuds between the two families for two years. This is evidence that pe...

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... the girls dancing in the forest, but she says that the event had nothing to do with witchcraft, and they were only trying to conjure up spirits of Thomas and Ann Putnam's seven dead children in order to find out who is responsible for their deaths - they all died in infancy, and their sister Ruth Putnam was one of the girls ... in the forest with the Abigail and Betty. Thomas and Ann Putnam show up soon after words and tells Reverends Hale and Parris that their daughter, Ruth, is also sick. Mrs. Putnam admits that she sent Ruth to learn, from Tituba ... ...

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... figures of the town are openly envious, and let these feelings affect their actions. The Putnams, two of towns most influential and affluent people are very envious of their neighbors. Ann Putnam has given birth to eight children, only one of whom has survived. As a result of this tragedy, the Putnams are very envious of the Nurses. The Nurses have 11 ... relationship with numerous towns people. The Putnams are very greedy and are envious of the land that the Nurses" own. It is greed and desire for this land that causes Ann Putnam to mention Rebecca Nurse and accuse her of witchcraft. T...

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... witches who were bringing such horrible events to their village. The children still were not able to come up with names for their perpetrators until a little thirteen-year-old girl, Ann Putnam, cried out the name of Martha Corey. Corey, like Osborne, was not poor at all. While she was being tried, Martha Corey had the audacity to laugh at questions ... labeled herself as a "Gospel-woman." Her presence and attitude during the trial led many to believe that she was in fact guilty of practicing witchcraft. From this point on, after Ann Putnam's accusation, the females of Salem showed no he...

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... evidence in the past of violence; the girls would not be so scared otherwise. This so far proves that Abigail was the person with the most influence in this play. Ann Putnam is wife to Thomas Putnam and it is her who starts off the idea of Betty being bewitched. She started the accusations, because she believed some one had possessed ... her child. She blamed Tituba because she had helped with her babies. She is jealous of Rebecca the nurse due to the fact she has had many successful births. Ann points out the illness of her child and blames it down to the devils work and she blames Tib...

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... believe in 1692 that the devil was close at hand. Sudden and violent death occupied everyone's minds. Talk of witchcraft increased when other playmates of Betty, including eleven-year-old Ann Putnam, seventeen-year-old Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott, began to show similar unusual behavior. When his own ideas failed to effect a cure, William Griggs, a doctor called to examine the ... urine cake made her and even easier target to become a scapegoat for the unexplained. Meanwhile, the number of girls afflicted continued to grow, rising to seven with the addition of Ann Putnam, Elizabeth Hub...

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