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What really happened in the woods?

What really happened in the woods?. If you believe what Abigail tells her Uncle Parris…. What Parris saw/questions he has for Abigail. I saw Tituba chanting and waving her arms over a fire. I saw a dress. I thought I saw someone running naked through the wood.

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What really happened in the woods?

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  1. What really happened in the woods? If you believe what Abigail tells her Uncle Parris… What Parris saw/questions he has for Abigail I saw Tituba chanting and waving her arms over a fire. I saw a dress. I thought I saw someone running naked through the wood. • It was just Betty and I in the woods. We were just dancing. What Goody Putnam discloses • I sent Ruth to Tituba to conjure the spirits of my seven murdered children. (She believes the reason Ruth can’t talk is that the devil has stilled her tongue to keep the deaths unexplained.)

  2. In red = girls who are “sick” Putting it all together • Present in the woods: Ruth, Tituba, Abigail, Betty, Mercy Lewis, Mary Warren (will be very important in the rest of the play) • Ruth Putnamis there on an errand from Goody Putnam to ask Tituba to conjure the spirits of her “murdered” children • Mercy Lewis: Running naked • Abigail Williams: Drinking blood to put a hex on Goody Proctor. • Betty Parris and Mary Warren: witnesses Abigail is the ring leader and oversees the others with threats and intimidation.

  3. Abigail rules over them with fear, manipulation, intimidation Enemies of Old Salemites The young girls Abigail, Betty, Ruth, Mercy, Mary Susanna The Proctors; The Nurses; The Coreys Authority Figures Danforth Hathorne (Cheever, Herrick) Outcasts Tituba Sarah Good Goody Osburn Bridget Bishop Isaac Ward Outsiders Hale Boston Judges Old Salemites The Putnams Hathorne Parris

  4. • John hates himself for having sinned and fallen for Abigail.He resents his wife for failing to forgive him. The rift in their relationship is obvious at the beginning of Act II.• Abigail and Elizabeth are mirrors of each other. Each hates the other, wishes the other would go away, or had never existed.• Abigail’s ace up her sleeve is the affair, and she’s just crazy enough to use it.

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