Goody Putnam's ease with which she recognizes Osburn as a witch is reflective of both her own condition and the condition that has afflicted Salem. On one hand, Goody Putnam's own condition is so warped as she has become so obsessed with the deaths of her own children that she is willing to embrace witchcraft as a cause for all that is evil in just about anyone or anything. Goody Putnam's psychological condition is far from stable,...
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