In the following month, Tituba admitted to the accusations because she could not bear the suffering of pain and torture. Tituba had been known to tell the girls stories of omen's voodo and witchcraft from her native forklore. Others soon followed the accusers. Other villiagers came up with strange stories of animals born with deformedities…
At some points, they would talk and at some points when they did talk they were very aggressive. But, Tituba confessed and told the jury everything (Don 17). She said that she wasn’t trying to harm anyone or make anyone ill (Rice 19). She was only trying to do it “for the good of the people”. Tituba was supposed to aid the girls and help them.…
In The Crucible, Tituba was being interrogated by Hale for being a suspect as a witch. Tituba was easily intimidated and was threatened to hang. That was when she caved in and was intimidated to lie about being a witch. She also blamed Sarah Good and Sarah Osborn just to save her own life. One time my and my family went to Kennywood.…
Austin Bell Professor Schroeder Religion 321 25 November 2015 Salem Witch Trials The Salem Witch Trials are a very well known piece of American history that is still heavily researched today. These trials were held in Salem, Massachusetts starting in February of 1692 and ending around May, 1693. The trials consisted of a number of different Salem residents being accused of partaking in witchcraft activities.…
Have you ever been accused of something you didn’t do? The Crucible was a suspenseful play written by Arthur Miller, recreating the important time period in Salem when multiple people were accused of being witches. Arthur Miller’s play was based off of real events that occurred, while still including some information that had been slightly changed to add a dramatic effect to the story. The Crucible revolves around John and Elizabeth Proctor, who have both been accused of consulting with the devil. The accusations began when a seventeen year old girl, named Abigail Williams, became jealous after her affair with John ended with a rejection.…
The Crucible- who’s the blame The Crucible, by Arthur Miller was a play that dealt with many false trials in Salem, Massachusetts that condemned many innocent beings to death, leading the country to its first severe trial. These trails are performed to drive Satan out of Salem so that Satan could not corrupt more of God’s children . Arthur Miller created this play to show how similar it was to the Red Scare. During the 1950’s the government tried to drive out communist in our country, just like in the play where the higher government tried to rule out the Salem witches. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Miller demonstrated that it was John Proctor’s flaw, lust and pride that led him to be most responsible for the tragedies that happened…
Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 was a terrifying scene. The witchcraft accusations were everywhere. As a result, the whole colony was paranoid about where a case of the devil’s possession may show up. Up to this point, the witch hunts in the thirteen colonies had been small and in only a small amount of places. The Salem Witch Trials were the first full-on hunt for witches.…
Being a witch during the witch hunt was the worst type of person to be. Innocent people were blamed for things that they didn’t do. They were killed for no reason. This was mainly caused by one girl, Abigail Williams. While Abigail is a blank-faced liar, who keeps covering up her mistakes, other humans are being blamed in Salem.…
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.…
The feeling of guilt can make it very difficult for people to think properly and enjoy their lives during their time of regret. The events that took place during The Crucible by Arthur Miller clearly illustrate guilt as the motivating factor in the many false convictions and deaths of twenty people. The acts of the people of Salem were influenced by the acts of a group of girls lead by Abigail Williams, who would act irrationally and accuse people for witchcraft. Many people were sold by the actions of these girls which ended up causing all of the hangings to occur. After some time people started to believe less and less of what the girls were saying; many of the girls felt guilty and left the town.…
The author of The Crucible wanted the reader of the play to view fear as a bad thing. The entire book was about fear, and what happens when you lie to benefit yourself. The town of Salem should have used logic to figure out that people were lying, and everyone was acting out just to gain more land. they could have prevented all of the hangings and deaths that occurred. Instead, people just kept on letting it happen.…
As a black member in society, Tituba was looked down upon, so she was regarded as an easy target when it came to witchcraft. When Tituba was accused of witchcraft, she began to be whipped and threatened by Parris, and this caused a big scene in the town of Salem, fueling the hysteria. Parris said that if Tituba does not confess to witchcraft, she will be whipped and hanged and therefore, Tituba confesses because she fears what the consequences will be if she does not. “No, no, don’t hang Tituba! I tell him I don’t desire to work for him, sir” (Miller 44).…
The Crucible is full of blaming and lying. The blaming begun when Mr. Parris caught the women dancing in the woods. After that blaming showed up everywhere from Abigail blaming Tituba, to Proctor blaming Abigail. It was nobody’s fault but the person next to them. Everyone felt the need to tell their own lies.…
In the biography Tituba Reluctant: Witch of Salem, Elaine G. Breslaw focuses on telling the narrative of Tituba an American Indian slave accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 and connecting her confessions to the fear of a diabolical conspiracy among the Puritan society. The author, Elaine G. Breslaw, graduated with a BA in History from Hunter College, received an MA in History from the same college, and completed graduate work with a Ph. D. from the University of Maryland. She has also taught History at multiple universities and colleges and has written multiple essays on the Salem witch hunt. (Elaine Breslaw Author & Speaker 2012) Breslaw organizes the book into two chronologically organized sections, the first section is…
Abigail is a very good example. She and Proctor had an affair and was now very jealous of Elizabeth, Proctor’s wife. Elizabeth was accused of being a witch by Abigail because Abigail wanted to have Proctor to herself. As mentioned before, witchcraft represented sinning in The Crucible. Lying is a sin and Abigail lied when she made the accusation about Elizabeth.…