Tituba

Inside the house of Reverend Samuel Paris in 1692 started the very beginning of the Salem Witch Trials. A small group of young girls were having fun with their friends and performing “fortune-telling” and “little sorceries” practices. The actions of these girls were all in good fun until one day their games were presented to the general public in which everyone feared the worst. These rumors spread around the town frantically and little did the girls know they were in grave danger. This tale of…

Imagine one day everything was lost. Jobs, reputation, friends, life as it is, gone. The unbelievably true Salem Witchcraft Trials is an allegory to the Red Scare in many ways. An allegory is a story that helps to better understand an event with a deeper meaning. The Salem Witchcraft trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Word started going around that witches were making people do some odd things. People started getting accused of a crime they didn’t commit. They could admit to…

Erikka Burke Sjovold History 310 September 24, 2014 Salem Witch Hunt The accusations of witchcraft occurring in New England started in the late-16th century. The Puritans were fairly new to their settlements. They fled from Europe to America to ensure that the Christian Church was maintained. In England they received a threat from King James I to leave the land or pay the consequences. Many of the Puritans went to Holland and a good handful was led by William Bradford to America. The Puritans…

She cannot go back now. There is justice to be served, or in truth, a dark dance in the woods to be kept quiet. Reverend Hale arrives in Salem and already has a possible witch in his midst. Abigail is the one who places the claim of witchcraft on Tituba, but she sees a new way to keep what took place in the woods a secret. Reverend Parris, who has expressed his suspicion to Abigail about what the girls’ actions in the woods, so to get him off her back and convince everyone else she is a good…

not, she spoke Barbados… I never sold myself! I’m a good girl! I’m a proper girl!” (1258-1259). By adding specific details of a frog being in the soup and how Tituba, the servant, spoke Barbados during the dance, she draws attention and makes the situation seem much worse than it is; she brings suspicion upon everyone, especially Tituba. This allows her to bring the blame off of herself, but at the same time causes more chaos as she tests the unfairness of the situation. Although she is…

Women lie to save their friends and the ones they love because the love ones are in danger. When Parris catches Abigail and her friends doing strange things with Tituba, Abigail lies to save her friends and herself. Abigail…

Written in 1952 is The Crucible by Arthur Miller, which is about the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. The play commences with a little bit of information about the time period and the setting of the play. Act one opens in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris in a cramped upper bedroom in Salem, Massachusetts. The location of this play is in a town, however today it most likely could not even be called a village. A bay and a dark, threatening forest isolate the village from other villages…

Salem Witch Trials- Real Vs. Truth The Salem witch trials were trials against friends and family for the only reason of fear, mischief and misconception. In the years 1692 and 1693, there were many court dates and accusations of men and women who were “seen” with the devil, which caused many executions out of fear. The event brought on stories such as the well-known play The Crucible by Arthur Miller and novels such as Susannah Morrow by Megan Chance. However, despite the use of real people,…

Miller and the Red Scare in American history. During the witch trials in The Crucible, people are forced to either admit to the crime of witchery and accuse another person or be hanged. The trouble in The Crucible begins when Abigail Williams attacks Tituba for the girls dancing in the woods when she says: “She made me do it! She made Betty do it” (40; act 1)! This…

biggest role as to why all the tragic deaths occurred in the small village. Manipulation and selfishness were just a couple of the negative traits portrayed by Abigail Williams that lead to her eventual fall. "Shut it! Now shut it! We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. Let either…