Take courage, you must give us all their names. How can you bear to see this child suffering? Look at her, Tituba. Look at her God-given innocence; her soul is so tender; we must protect her, Tituba; the Devil is out and preying on her like a beast upon the flesh of the pure lamb. God will bless you for your help.
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 1. Hale, pointing to Betty on the bed, uses emotional and intimidatory tactics to pressurize Tituba into giving up the names of other "witches." For good measure he uses a vivid animal simile to compare the Devil’s possession of Betty to a beast preying on an innocent lamb. He bribes Tituba with the promise of God’s blessing and forgiveness if she gives up names. Characterizing this as a battle between good and evil, Hale appears to throw objectivity to the wind. As he buys into the idea of the Devil running loose in Salem, he only adds to the panic and hysteria. Those who fell foul of the McCarthy witch hunt for communists in 1950s America had similar pressures applied to them to name names of others.