shes the one who accueses her grandfather of witchcraft
Abigail
Ruth Putnam
There's actually six people who were accused, and those were Mercy Lewis, Ruth Putnam, Mary Warren, Abigail Williams, the servant, and the ministers daughter, Betty Parris. Youre welcome :)
The Crucible Act 1
she gave birth to a foot. rofl. no she actually had 8 children but only one of them survived - Ruth Putnam
Abigail
The first girl is Betty Parris, and the second girl is Ruth Putnam.
Never! Ruth Putnam only exists in the Crucible, which is not based entirely in fact. Mostly likely Miller renamed Ann Putnam jr Ruth Putnam so she would not be confused with her mother, also named Ann.
I like this question, if only because it proves my point that the Crucible has corrupted the public knowledge of the Salem trials. Ruth Putnam is a creation of Arthur Miller for his play. I figure that Ruth is actually Ann Putnam the younger and Miller renamed her to lessen the confusion of having two Ann Putnams, mother and daughter, in the dialogue.
Ruth Putnam
There's actually six people who were accused, and those were Mercy Lewis, Ruth Putnam, Mary Warren, Abigail Williams, the servant, and the ministers daughter, Betty Parris. Youre welcome :)
The Crucible Act 1
she gave birth to a foot. rofl. no she actually had 8 children but only one of them survived - Ruth Putnam
Ruth Putnam in "The Crucible" is portrayed as being in a state of illness and unresponsiveness, which is later attributed to bewitchment. She is one of the girls caught up in the hysteria of the witch trials and is said to be under the influence of Tituba and Abigail Williams.
In The Crucible, Betty is Reverend Parris's ten-year-old daughter. Betty falls into a strange stupor after Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the forest with Tituba. Her illness and that of Ruth Putnam fuel the first rumors of witchcraft.
Tituba, Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, Betty Paris, Susanna Walcott, Mercy Lewis, Ruth Putnam
Mercy Lewis was a real person in the Salem witch trials. Later, Arthur Miller used her as a character in the play "the crucible". Not much is widely known about Mercy Lewis as a real person. In the book however Mercy Lewis is the Putnam's servant. She is described as being a "fat, sly, merciless girl of eighteen". The fact that she is merciless is ironic given her name. At the beginning of the play, Mercy suggests beating Betty, "because I gave Ruth a good one and it waked her for a minute". At the end of the play, shamed, Mercy leaves Salem with Abigail.