Throughout the play Mrs. Ann Putnam displays immense jealousy of Rebecca Nurse’s amount of children. In the beginning of the play Mrs. Ann Putnam does not want Rebecca Nurse to asses her only daughter Ruth’s health because she believes she is practicing witch craft. Mrs. Ann Putnam says “I fear her, my babies always shrivel in her hands” (50.) She believes she is killing her babies and that’s why only one of her children survived. A second account of Mrs. Ann’s jealousy is when she actually accuses Rebecca Nurse of witchcraft. Francis Nurse, Rebecca Nurse’s husband says “My wife wad charged with the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam’s babies” (75.) Mrs. Ann Putnam’s jealousy …show more content…
Putnam. He is Mrs., Ann Putnam’s wife and is filled with greed. In the beginning of act three Giles Corey is accusing Mr. Putnam of scheming to steal his neighbors land once he convinces the court that his neighbor is a witch. In the court Giles Corey is telling Danforth that he suspects Mr. Putnam is lying. He says “This man is killing his neighbors for their land!” (101.) If his neighbor, George Jacobs was to be accused of witchcraft and did not confess he would be sentenced to die and there for his property would go up for auction and Mr. Putnam would buy it for him self. To be convincing he gets his daughter to tell the court that in the night she is visited by Jacob’s spirit. Again in the same scene they are accusing Mr. Putman of lying. Danforth says that he has a statement from a reliable source saying that Mr. Putnam “coldly prompted your daughter to cry witchery upon George Jacobs that is now in jail.” These lies that Mr. Putnam is telling shows that he is so greedy for land that he would accuse his own