“According to Anne’s account, from an early stage her father attempted to make her symptoms seem more compelling by keeping her drugged” (9).

This quote shows one of the main reasons why Anne was acting the way she did. Her father was abusing her physically and emotionally, but it got to the part where he was taking over her life when he drugged her. Her father drugging her shows that he will do whatever it takes to benefit himself. He had Anne reading several books on witches, so she already had an idea in her head on how she should act but it was not enough for her father. He had to make sure that she was convincing everyone in the town.