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Betty is quietly whimpering, eyes shut, Rebecca simply stands over the child, who gradually quiets. Everyone is astonished, of course, and Mrs. Putnam asks what Rebecca did to calm the...
Betty suddenly wakes and huddles against the wall, calling for her dead mother. Abigail tells Betty not to worry because she told Parris everything. But Betty says Abigail didn't tell that she drank blood as a charm to kill Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail smacks her across the face.
When Abigail tells her that her mother is dead, Betty raises her arms and attempts to climb out the window to fly to her mama, as if she were a bird. She is pulled away from the window by Abigail. The child’s actions add to the growing atmosphere of panic and hysteria.
The girls—Abigail and Betty—follow the same pattern, empowering themselves through their allegedly religious hysteria. Read more about how false accusations feed the girls’ and Tituba’s sense of empowerment.
Parris is worried that his career in Salem as the town’s minister is in jeopardy because his daughter Betty, his maid Tituba, and his niece Abigail have seemingly practiced witchcraft. He is also concerned with getting paid sufficiently well and complains that he has not been provided with firewood.
Rebecca Nurse is able to quickly calm Betty when others could not comfort the girl. There are two different way (one good, one not) of viewing Nurse's power here. Explain them both. People think Rebecca is a witch because she calmed Betty down instantly.
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His daughter, Betty Parris, aged ten, is lying on the bed, inert. At the time of these events Parris was in his middle forties.
