The girls started to shout out the names of the witches who were torturing them. The three names they named were that of Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba. Sarah Good was a beggar and Sarah Osborne was a lonely widow, so it was no suprise to the community that these women practiced witchcraft. In Tituba's case, no one stood up for her, but she managed to escape being hanged by confessing to being a witch. Sarah Good ended up being one of the first few to be hanged.…
She had been taught by her mentor, who was her mistress from a different place and was indeed a witch. She taught her countermagic. To this account she also denied that she wasn’t a witch even though she had committed acts that seemed suspicious or looked liked witchcraft. Soon later other women were blamed of using witchcraft such as Goody Osborne and Sarah Good with Tituba were accused of committing witchcraft on other girls in the village which lead to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. The victims described what they did to them.…
Through fear, Tituba confessed to “having a contract with the Devil” and other questions. By contradicting herself, by first saying she wasn’t a witch then exclaiming she was a witch, she pleased listeners by going into detailed answers about her services to the Devil. She had also accused Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne as being witches as well. With her confession the town set out to find from the possessed who the other witches were. There are theories that Tituba only confessed to these crimes after being beaten by her master, the Reverend Samuel Parris.…
In act one, many characters liked to avoid getting in trouble. But Tituba has the biggest lie of all. In the story, she brought the girls out to the woods for dancing, and for conjuring the devil in order to bring death to Reverend Parris. When Abigail called her out and made it sounds like it was all her fault, she lied saying she did not do anything of that nature and was not conducting witchcraft. And after, Tituba blamed other characters to lie more and make it sounds like none of it was her fault.…
Many puritans in The Crucible required a scape goat; In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, he shows us that the fear of being caught witch crafting caused mass hysteria that led people to betray one another. That being said if one could protect themselves to a great extent and easily get out of trouble it would not cost them anything to blame someone else for it. First, Tituba was the biggest scapegoat in The Crucible; Some reasons why she was easily targeted was because of the fact that she is from the lower class and no one really cared about her. Puritans in The Crucible would do whatever they could to blame others.…
One way that the Salem Witch Trials occurred was people expressing publicly his or her guilt and sins under the cover of accusations against the victims. Abigail’s uncle discovers that she and other girls were dancing to evil spirits. Abigail was blaming Tituba and telling them that she forced them to do evil things. “She made me do it! She made Betty do it!…
He was making them say the names of the witches that were torturing them. The three girls named accused three women one of whom was Parris’s Indian slave, Tituba. Tituba confessed and said that there four woman and a man that was causing the girl's illness. Cotten Mather, one of the most influential religious leaders in America caused the witchcraft trials. According to Document A, states that people think that witches do exist.…
Though Good and Osborn denied their guilt, Tituba confessed. Likely seeking to save herself from certain conviction by acting as an informer, she claimed there were other witches acting alongside her in service of the devil against the Puritans. As panic spread through the community and beyond into the rest of Massachusetts, a number of others were accused, including Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse both regarded as upstanding members of church and community–and the four-year-old daughter of Sarah Good. Like Tituba, several accused witches confessed and named others, and the trials soon began to overwhelm the local justice system.…
Tituba is facilitating the witchcraft in the woods with the young girls: “I never called him! Tituba, Tituba” (Miller 1259). She is singing her Barbados songs while she concocts a love potion and calls the devil. She carries a dead chicken with her to serve as the figurehead. Witchcraft is illegal and considered evil, so Tituba is in a heap of trouble when the pastor…
Tituba was very vague in her descriptions, but she made them very believable. She then claimed the “..devil had incapacitated her…”, because she was telling secrets she was not entitled to tell. Tituba caused the investigation to become urgent. She “...assured the authorities they were on the right track.” The authorities began to arrest many more suspects, and accusing many more women of being witches with very little evidence.…
Thus, these three witches were tried. Good and Osborn pleaded innocent while Tituba “confessed” and also accused more women in the community who were supposedly…
Tituba is afraid of being hung, so she confesses to being a witch. Elizabeth Proctor does not want her husband to…
Abigail says they were just dancing, though it soon comes out that Tituba was trying to conjure dead spirits. Under threat of punishment if she refuses to confess, Tituba breaks down and admits she communed with the devil. She begins to name other witches in town. Abigail, seeing that she’ll be punished unless she joins Tituba in naming names, leaps up and begins to name more witches. Betty wakes and joins in” (Litcharts).…
After Tituba confessed to witchcraft, she then accused Sarah Good and Goody Osburn, as she would no longer have this fear of punishment because accusing others would mean that they would take the fall instead. Though these women were innocent, Tituba’s fear of punishment lead her to be immoral and accuse these women of witchcraft which…
Even the title of the book suggests that Tituba was reluctant to confess that she participated in witch-craft, I don’t believe that resistance against Samuel Parris led Tituba and the other Indians and Slaves to confess to accusations of witch-craft brought on by Samuel Parris and the girls in the Parris household and neighboring…