Tituba

themselves from danger. Tituba, who is a black servant from Barbados, was targeted because she was different and from an unknown place. When Abigail was confronted by Parris about what she and the rest of the girls were doing in the forest the previous night, she knew she had to blame someone. Abigail knew that blaming Tituba, who was an outcast of the community, would be the easiest option, so she did just that: ABIGAIL: She comes to me every night to go and drink blood! TITUBA: You beg me to…

the time, the accusations being made are false and used as a way to get revenge. In the end, many people end up dying because of the trails. The Salem Witchcraft Trials empowered previously powerless people such as Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and Tituba by giving them the ability to determine people’s fate through accusations. The person who benefits the most from the Salem Witchcraft Trials is Abigail Williams because people start to trust her blindly. In the beginning of the play, Abigail…

“The Crucible”, written by Arthur Miller, the three women Tituba symbolizes slavery, Elizabeth exemplifies holy matrimony, and Abby personifies independence allowing different perspectives on Puritan society.…

member in society, Tituba was looked down upon, so she was regarded as an easy target when it came to witchcraft. When Tituba was accused of witchcraft, she began to be whipped and threatened by Parris, and this caused a big scene in the town of Salem, fueling the hysteria. Parris said that if Tituba does not confess to witchcraft, she will be whipped and hanged and therefore, Tituba confesses because she fears what the consequences will be if she does not. “No, no, don’t hang Tituba! I tell him…

of The Crucible, Abigail had just blamed Tituba for bewitching her and Betty and conspiring with the devil to do so. After, Tituba realizes that she can’t take the blame off of her, Tituba plays along with Abigail’s allegations and confesses to conspiring with the devil in hopes of not being punished as severely as she would have if she denied Abigail’s allegations and was still accused in the end. After confessing, Reverend Hale says to Tituba “Now Tituba, I know that when we bind ourselves to…

Abigail Williams, Tituba and Mary Warren portray their own example of McCarthyism, proving that their actions shape the plot of the play. Abigail Williams plays the role of accuser as she uses her own form of McCarthyism to persuade the people of the village in her favor. For example, when talking to John Proctor, she states that “She (Elizabeth) is blackening my name… John, pity me, pity me!” (Miller I.22). Abigail falsely accuses Elizabeth…

Abigail and Betty would be getting whipped if anyone found out they played with magic with Tituba. The first name that was given was Tituba’s. Abigail and Betty must have been scared of being punished, therefore they accused Tituba of “bewitched” them. The girls knew magic was forbidden and rumors started to spread in the community and out of fear of being whipped they accused Tituba of being a witch. Tituba denied being a switch at first but she learned that the magistrates wanted to hear that…

A person, an accession, and no evidence are all you need to lie. Allegedly, this is how you tell a lie in the time period of a classic play called The Crucible. The Crucible was written in 1953 by Arthur Miller. It is a story filled with drama in Salem, Massachusetts during 1692 and 1693. In Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, it illustrates how lying and deceit can make a community chaotic and corrupt. Abigail Williams is a superlative example of how lying can change a community in the way it did…

and Abigail Williams. Also, the conflict between Tituba and everyone else is part of the whole story. Tituba is Reverend Perris’s slave, she practices what the puritans call “black magic”. When one of the girls named Betty, doesn't wake up one day they start blaming it on Tituba for taking the girls to dance and sing in the first late at night. When they say she gave them spirits to see the devil, the judges start to believe the devil that tituba has led to them has cursed Betty. As soon as…

Tituba was the first witch to confess in Salem. A lot of findings propose that she likely did this to avoid further punishment from her slave owners. In Tituba’s confession she apologized for hurting Betty and Abigail, claiming she never wanted that to happen…