Tituba

The Crucible, with that being said many people can be blamed and the blame falls more on certain people than others.The main reason all these things started happening in Salem was because a group of girls go dancing in the woods with a slave named Tituba. A minister named Reverend Parris witnessed these girls dancing in the woods. Reverend Parris’s daughter Betty falls into a coma and a witchcraft expert is called by the name of Reverend Hale. This is what starts all of the situations in Salem.…

John lying and causing turmoil in his relationship with Elizabeth it led to a downfall at the end of play. Tituba played a major role in The Crucible by starting the witch hunts in Salem “No, no don’t hang Tituba! I tell him I don’t desire to work for him, sir.”(Act II, Miller). Tituba lied and betrayed hundreds of people causing havoc and terror and witch hunts across the town. When Tituba claimed that the devil came to her for work, this allowed the girls to spread their accusations and lies…

when a group of girls were dancing in the woods with their serevent named Tituba and they ate or drank something that made them faint and pass out for the whole night. While they were doing that a guy named Reverend Parris seen them dancing around a girl and screaming random words. The day after that, the little girl wasn’t waking up so they started to question Abigail if they were doing witchcraft but then Abigail blamed Tituba. After that they started to blame many innocent people and all…

evidence. Ones could receive the result they desire without contribute any credible evidence. Reverend Parris is the father of Betty and Abigail is Parris niece. Parris appears to be a success character in Salem and a man who only cares about himself. Tituba is…

altercations with neighboring people in which, they also agreed with the accusations (Godbeer, 35). The start of the Salem witch trials and the Stamford witch trials differed because, the beginning of the witch hunt in Salem began from the voodoo magic that Tituba had displayed to both Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams. In Salem the fits of the girls to seemed to have been worse than that of Katherine Branch’s fit because they were having thoughts of suicide (Rice). In Salem people were more…

Many of the accused females include Betty Parris (Reverend Parris’s daughter), Tituba (the Parris family maid), Mercy Lewis (the Putnam family servant), Mary Warren (Proctor family servant), and Abigail Williams (niece of Reverend Parris). One thing all of the girls have in common is that one night, they were spotted by Reverend Parris…

her answer changed and Tituba said she listened but still felt sorry for what she did . Some say she realized no one would believe her and others believe she owned up to her mistake. Though she admitted to hurting the girls, she shouldn’t have been put in jail for ‘witchcraft’, witchcraft wasn’t and still isn’t real. The fact that Tituba ended up in jail for almost a year because she ‘took orders from a devil pig,evil dog, winged creature, etc’ is simply unbelievable. Tituba claiming to see and…

To usher in the introduction of Reverend Hale to the chaos soon to ensue, Arthur Miller outlines his predisposition to the matter at hand, as he claims Reverend Hale ¨feels himself allied with the best minds of Europe—kings, philosophers, scientists, and ecclesiasts of all churches¨ (36) . Furthermore, Hale has been waiting for a chance like this to exercise his powers; as Miller notes ¨he knows the exaltation of the blessed whose intelligence, sharpened by the minute examinations of enormous…

A theme brought up throughout the play, The Crucible, is the theme of Empowerment. Whether it is characters gaining empowerment to do something or characters losing empowerment within themselves, empowerment is an important theme throughout the play. Girls had little to no respect or power during the time the play was set, so having the trails brought them a lot of attention which led to empowerment. The theme of empowerment mostly involved the female characters of the story, so that’s what I’m…

she blames Tituba for drinking the blood, “She made me do it! She made Betty do it!” (187). This leads to Tituba confessing to witchcraft. Also, Abigail blackmails the other…