Tituba

around the town, been fired by her caused everyone to question why. Once shunned by the entire town, Abigail did as much as she could to fix her reputation, by doing so; she was left with one final option. The day came as Abigail went off to persuade Tituba, a young black slave from Barbados, to go out and conjure spirits for her own selfish doings. Her intensions were simple: Kill Elizabeth…

How the Salem Witch Trials Went Down Arthur Miller was born in Harlem, New York in 1915, his father owned a coat manufacture company and his mother was an educator who read a lot of novels. As he grew up he almost lost everything because of the Wall Street Crash in 1929 which caused him to move from Manhattan to Flatbush, Brooklyn. After high school he had a couple of jobs before he was able to save up enough money to go to the University of Michigan. It was then he went on to be a well-known…

Adultery Hester cheats on her husband while he is away and, as far as she and the rest of the town know, dead. When the town learns about her adultery, they imprison her for years. Eventually, she gets out of prison in turn for an even worse punishment. Every day she is required to wear a scarlet letter A sewn into her clothes and she must spend hours on a scaffold being ridiculed by the townspeople for her crime. As far as I knew, my husband was dead. He went out to sea four years ago and…

It was easier for her to tell a lie and accuse someone else, than admit to what she had done and pay the consequences. It was also easy for the people to accept Abigail’s accusation because Tituba was a colored slave from Barbados. Abby had known Tituba for a long time; and it took a heartless person to accuse such an innocent person. The other girls in Abby’s group also had a say on who they accused of witchcraft, but Abby was undoubtedly their leader and she threatened…

on and he threatens to kick her out of his house and mark her name through Salem, Abigail is then scared and guilty but yet, she doesn’t admit. Tituba, the slave from Barbados, gets accused by Abigail, saying that she was the one who was calling the Devil and Tituba was the one who made her do all of the things that Parris witnessed. As soon as Tituba confesses to being innocent and says that she wants to be with God, Abigail then gets more scared and pressured and says that she wants to be…

harm to residents through his workers, witches. This fear was depicted in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in an exchange between Reverend Hale and Tituba. Hale comforts Tituba, saying in Act 1 lines 457-469 “…The Devil can never overcome a minister… You are God 's instrument put in our hands to discover the Devil 's agents among us. So speak utterly, Tituba, and God will protect you.” Hale’s idea of the devil working through witches emerged in Europe during the 1400s. Peasants used to utilize a…

section contains a summary of The Salem Witchcraft Trials. The book begins by telling of Samuel Parris’s arrival in Salem. Parris, Salem’s newest preacher, arrives in 1989 along with his wife, two daughters, niece, and two servants, Indian John and Tituba. The importance of religion in…

Deceitful Actions of a Young Girl In the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, a seventeen-year-old girl named Abigail Williams leads a group of girls to wrongfully accuse innocent people and have them killed just because they disliked them. These trials were later known as the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Abigail Williams was deceitful and dishonest with her false accusations. She accuses Elizabeth Proctor out of lust and greed to take her place as partner of John Proctor. She created chaos in…

for church, acting strange, dancing, amongst other things. Puritans believed in following the Bible and punishment for sin was often harsh. Many believe that Abigail Williams is responsible for the witchcraft happening. Others seem to believe that Tituba and Betty are responsible for the hysteria. Abigail is seen performing suspicious activity to the belief that she has started the hysteria in Salem. Abigail is doing…

The Puritan Society differs immensely compared to the day of age we live in today. In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, we get a taste of how different Puritan Society is and how lies, lust, and greed can turn any situation into chaos. We see the protagonist Abigail Williams, whose parents were killed by indians and is now adopted by her uncle Reverend Parris. The Crucible starts out with Reverend Parris attending to his daughter Betty who is deathly sick. Parris is trying to figure…