Tituba And Pharma's Greed

While tables were turning and lives were being lost, many still felt the need to take control over things that weren't theirs, and act greedy. Many knew that the anger in the town was not going to come to an end. For some, family’s tried to accuse others just so they could get more land, and for others it was so that reputation was not lost. Parris already being a man who always thought he deserved more,and always thought someone was out to get him, so now he was going to attack someone that was easy to control. Of course, Tituba. He forces the slave to confess herself to witchcraft, “You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba!”(44). She has to choose between life or death, Parris’s greedy mind took over her.
When Tituba confesses this starts a new chapter where many women start to accuse each other. While Parris was greedy for his reputation, Thomas Putnam was quite greedy over land. Thomas Putnam is a very wealthy farmer, who shows how he would do whatever he could to get more land for his farm. He knew that more land and a bigger farm meant more money. People that were accused would give up their land rights, that land would be put up for sale. With Putnam being so rich he would always purchase the land, this was the law “If Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeit up his property - that's