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    made it harder for Hale and increased his moral struggle. Such as from the beginning of the play Abigail started out by putting the blame on Tituba. Abigail realizes that after she denied herself not being involved in witchcraft, she feels the guilt but she still puts the blame on Tituba. Abigail tried to protect herself by directing everything towards Tituba, she said “I never sold myself! I’m a good girl! I’m a proper girl!…

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    fungus ergot. Due to the widespread worship of Puritanism at the time, this behavior was thought to be caused by devilish witchcraft. Tituba, Reverend Samuel Parris’s slave, was accused of bewitching the girls. The two girls also claimed that Sarah Good and Sarah Osborn were involved. 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…

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    become sick and the doctors can’t find out what is wrong, they call Reverend Hale to come and help he is good at finding witches and helping solve problems.Reverend Hale gets there and he starts asking questions and finally Abigail accuses tituba and they bring Tituba in for questioning…

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    it on Tituba. Hale immediately wants to see Tituba and when he does, he asks her why she would do that. Then Tituba confesses to witchcraft when Hale tells her, he will cured her from the evil. Hale tells Tituba,” You are God’s instrument put in our hands to discover the Devil’s agents among us. You are selected, Tituba, you are chosen to help us cleanse our village. So speak utterly, Tituba, turn your back on him and face God - face God, Tituba, and God will protect you.” Hale wants Tituba to…

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    Abigail told the other girls to admit to nothing. After the dancing in the forest, Betty had fainted and people suspected witchcraft had something to do with it. This lead to the slave Tituba being questioned. After Tituba is put under pressure, she says that she worked with the Devil. Tituba and the other girls accuse several other women of being witches. “Abigail: I saw Goody Hawkins with the Devil! Betty: I saw Goody Bibber with the devil!”(86). Their mob mentality makes them accuse…

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    would hang them but many people disagree and think they did it out of fear of Abigail since she was one of the first to start accusing. At first, Tituba was told that if she exposed the other people that were practicing witchcraft, she wouldn’t be hanged. Reverend Hale said, “So speak utterly Tituba. Turn your back on him and face God. Face God Tituba and God will protect you” (Miller 46). Abigail overheard this and woke up and abruptly started accusing people. Soon after this, the girls also…

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    Young children are often known for making things up using their very inventive imaginations. In Salem, two young girls sparked an outbreak of events involving witchcraft leaving Salem village in chaos. Whether they were making up these occurrences up or not, the people of Salem were soon all against each other. The Salem Witch trials had many negative effects on Salem village at the time, because the whole village fell apart. Salem Village, located in North Massachusetts, was named after…

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    Metaphors In The Crucible

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    “ABIGAIL: Gah! I'd almost forgot how strong you are, John Proctor! PROCTOR, looking at Abigail now, the faintest suggestion of a knowing smile on his face: What's this mischief here? ABIGAIL, with a nervous laugh: Oh, she's only gone silly somehow. PROCTOR: The road past my house is a pilgrimage to Salem all morning. The town's mumbling witchcraft. ABIGAIL: Oh, posh! Winningly she comes a little closer, with a confidential, wicked air. We were dancin' in the woods last night, and my uncle leaped…

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    when Abigail used Tituba as a scapegoat after being questioned about her involvement in the “dancing” that took place the night prior. Abigail had an inconsistency in her argument about just dancing in the woods and broke into fear, yelling to Reverend Parris and Hale “I never called him! Tituba, Tituba...She made me do it! She made Betty do it!...She makes me drink blood!”, admitting she had been dancing with the Devil, but it was Tituba who made her do it (Miller 1057). Tituba being accused…

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    Wang Zhongtian Sky (18018010) Mr. Minichilli English 12 Enriched 17 June 2018 Connections between “The Crucible” and the Japanese Internment Camps during Hirohito Japan. Hirohito Japan, more commonly known as Japan in WWⅡ, is a duration that the whole country is crazy about invading other nations. However, as the country itself is busy with colonizing others, the Japanese citizens in other countries, America, to be specific, are treated badly because of. the invasion war. After the bombing of…

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