Tituba

The fear that swept Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 was like a plague. Thousands of men, women, and children were put on trial for supposed witchcraft. Many innocent people were actually killed during these events. Everyone was on their toes about the mass of events happening in Salem. The Salem Witch Trials were unfair, odd, and caused way too much confusion. The trials were very odd considering the history behind it. Witchcraft began making its appearance around 560 B.C., although it wasn’t such…

The play The Crucible is about the power of rebellion and (later) mass hysteria. Shown in the first act is a power struggle in which Abigail is defiant and dares to talk back to her minister uncle, Reverend Parris. Abigail’s actions towards her self-centered uncle foreshadow the power she and her friends would later gain. Due to the need of a scapegoat during hard times, the people of Salem, Massachusetts were quick to believe in witchcraft. Although some of the people accused seemed highly…

be a state of psychological anarchy, where emotions and fear take hold and any rationality is swiftly subdued. When the town of Salem showed signs of this symptom, it was thrown into chaos. The root of this problem started with the questioning of Tituba; the Barbados woman and other girls were suspected of…

saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand” (Miller 1262). Abby did not admit to witchcraft without a reason, she sees Tituba getting away with impunity and changes her story. This seems surprising to the community because of her willingness to lie earlier. Abigail then seeks revenge on Tituba for desolate reasons, which gets Tituba killed in the end. Later on, Abigail and the court accuse Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft. This infuriates John Proctor: “I’ll tell you what’s…

Analysis of the Dramatic Structure of the Crucible During the 1690’s, when America was still prospering, and growing, an event that occurred, which shook the very foundation of Massachusetts, left a scar that still impacts modern day America. Written by Arthur Miller, The Crucible is a historic tragedy that revitalized the controversial and captivating event known as the Salem Witch Trials, in a four act play. Utilizing the Three-Act structure, that Aristotle believed every poetry or drama must…

Though, the music came in at some awkward points as I was watching the film and kind of disrupted from what was happening for me in the film. For example, during the end, I believe it is Act III, while Abigail is pretending to yell to the Devil and Tituba is yelling at her to stop, the music comes in and out at times where maybe there just needs to be a silence. This would add to the emotions of what the characters are going through. When I think of Puritan society in a courtroom like in this…

The novel, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, tells a fictional story based on the events of the Salem Witch Trials. In the book, a group of young girls begin to accuse others of witchcraft and dealing with the devil. Their false accusations lead to mass hysteria and the dramatic deaths of 19 innocents. Although there were many characters who contributed to the chaos, it is obvious that Abigail Williams is most at fault since, from the beginning, she had the most control of the situation and used it…

At the tail end of the witch craze in Europe, comes the Salem Witch Trials. The European witch craze lasted from the fourteenth century to mid-seventeenth century. During this time period, between “200,000 and 500,000 witches” were executed most of these people were women . The vast majority of these trials took place in a sixty-year time period between 1570 and 1630. During this time period “four out of five victims were women”. Most of these women were homeless, widowed, never…

The horrors of history are passed on from generation to generation in hopes that they will never happen again. Yet, in the 1950s, history repeated itself. During this time, Joseph McCarthy, a United States senator from Wisconsin, began accusing people of being communists, which is similar to the Salem witch trials in the late 1690s when innocent people were accused of witchcraft. Arthur Miller used a real story to show the similarities between Salem witch hunt and McCarthyism. He wrote The…

Hunting Witch Hunters In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, the author implies that there are multiple reasons that Danforth, Hathorne, and the other authorities choose to believe Abigail and the other girls, Rather than choosing to believe more respectable townspeople like Proctor and Giles. The Crucible is a story of mass hysteria in the town of Salem Massachusetts in the 1690s, where many people are accused of being witches, and many were even hanged for the accusations. The reason for Danforth…