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Hale corners Tituba and tells her she is God's instrument for finding the Devil's agents. Pressed with the suffering child, she breaks: "I saw Sarah Good with the Devil!" Once she names one woman, the other girls take up the chant and the accusations spread across the room.
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Reverend Hale questions Tituba, the Parris family's slave from Barbados. He calls her God's instrument and urges her to turn from the Devil and face God. When she finally confesses, she names Sarah Good and Goody Osburn, and Abigail and Betty repeat the charge, filling the room with names.
The interrogation is built to produce a confession, and every line from Hale is pressure dressed as comfort. He tells Tituba she is "God's instrument put in our hands to discover the Devil's agents among us," then promises protection, then shows her the suffering child — "How can you bear to see this child suffering?" Her own account of the Devil is vivid and human: he promised her freedom, a pretty dress, and a flight back to Barbados, and she says she answered, "You lie, Devil, you lie!" But once Hale reframes confession as salvation rather than sin, she yields, and what she yields is names. Her first line, "I saw Sarah Good with the Devil!" is not evidence she gathered; it is the shape the room wanted, and the moment it is spoken the other girls begin chanting the same formula. The scene shows how an accusation becomes a script: one voice says it, and then the whole room can say it too.
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“You are God's instrument put in our hands to discover the Devil's agents among us.”
It casts the interrogators as God's instrument, turning a witch hunt into holy work.
Formal
“And I say, "You lie, Devil, you lie!"”
Repeating you lie lets the powerless woman talk back to the Devil himself.
Informal
“I saw Sarah Good with the Devil!”
A single reusable formula that turns one confession into an endless list of names.
Formal
“and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat!”
The Devil's order sounds like a household chore, and the concrete verbs make it worse.
Formal
I want to open myself! I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand.
Siguiente · 10nightfallLa escena: Elizabeth Urges Proctor to TestifyHale offers her a way out: confess, turn to God, and she will be protected. Frightened and promised her freedom, she says what the room wants to hear, admitting she saw the Devil and signed his book.
She names Sarah Good, then Goody Osburn. Ann Putnam seizes on Osburn at once, saying Osburn was midwife to her three times and her babies shriveled in her hands.
It is short for Goodwife, an old title for a married woman of the town, like Mistress or Mrs. That is why the accused women are called Goody Good, Goody Osburn, and Goody Howe.
Osburn delivered three of Ann's children, and Ann says every one of them shriveled in her hands. When Tituba names Osburn, Ann treats it as the answer she had been waiting for.
Once Tituba's confession is accepted, the naming becomes a pattern anyone can copy. Abigail and Betty take up the same line, and the accusations multiply.
