The other person that shows the most ammout of jealousy of another character would be Abigail Williams’ envy of Elizabeth Proctor. Ann Putnam is so envious of Rebecca Nurse that she charges her with murder, causing her to be hung, for Rebecca will not lie and confess even if it will save her life. Although it is not mentioned in the show, one can guess that the only person that would have the motives to charge Goody Nurse of murder and being a witch would be Ann Putnam, a jealous woman seeking revenge.

Another point of jealousy can be inferred in act two when Francis Nurse tells Reverend Hale that Rebecca Nurse has been arrested “for the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam’s babies,” (858). Thus, causing Ann to get into a rage and start making her jealousy over the fact that he lost almost all her kids and Mrs. Goody Putnam is very upset because she believes that her daughter Ruth is under the control of a witch and Rebecca wishes to look to God for the solution. Putnam gets into a rage of jealousy over the fact that Rebecca Nurse has not lost one child or grandchild, while Ann Putnam has lost all, but one child: “But I must! You think it God’s work you should never lose a child, nor grandchild either, and I bury all but one? ” (841). During act one this hatred like envy becomes very clear when Mrs. One of the most clear examples of envy in The Crucible is Goody Putnam’s towards Goody Nurse.

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