The GIRLS take up the rhythm, and an impromptu dance begins.
TITUBA starts to chant, waving he rooster to and fro. TITUBA suddenly waves the rooster over the group, and with a scream they scatter, laughing. Finally, RUTH PUTNAM throws a frog into the pot, and ABIGAIL WILLIAMS gives the rooster she has been carrying to TITUBA. One by one the GIRLS throw their offerings into the kettle, muttering boys names as they do so. TITUBA: What you bring me? The GIRLS produce herbs, beans, etc. TITUBA motions for them to kneel round the fire. TITUBA, a Barbados slave in her thirties, crouching over a boiling kettle of water. These teenagers are exploding with a primeval force toward a release, which is. Their dark capes, long skirts, and caps are snatched at by branches and thorny canes, buy they crash through toward EXT. The fog obscures all but the great pine trunks as we catch sight of thirteen or fourteen GIRLS rushing through the forest, their excited faces intent on something ahead.
But we can t make out what they are saying. They move past the last house in town and head for the forest, and now we hear hurried whispers, giggles, the voices of young girls, excited, urgent. Then another cloaked figure from another house. ABIGAIL and BETTY surreptitiously emerge from the doorway of Parris house and hurry in the direction of the forest. The two of them, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS and her ten-year-old cousin BETTY PARRIS, get out of bed and dress quickly. She shakes awake the little girl who sleeps next to her. this character is a devoted wife, and is saved from hanging because she is pregnant when she stands trial.2 ACT I 1. In Act IV, when this character is summoned to convince her husband to confess and save his life, she stands by him, regardless of what he chooses. Abigail Williams collapsed at the dinner table that evening with a needle in her flesh and accused this character of having sent spirits to murder her. this character does become one of the accused in Act II and is taken to the jail after Mary Warren's poppet is discovered in her home with a needle in it. this character believes Abigail wants her accused and out of the way so she can marry her husband. When word of witchcraft starts to stir in Salem, this character begs John to go speak with Abigail, knowing that she is the ringmaster. this character loves her husband dearly, but has been unable to let go of her suspicions and judgment based on the affair. In Act II, it becomes evident to the reader/audience that there is a tension in the Proctor home which is rooted in a prior affair John Proctor had with Abigail Williams, their servant at the time. This character is the wife of John Proctor.
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