Tituba

never called him! Tituba, Tituba…” (Miller 40). Then later that same page Abigail talks about how Tituba spoke in Barbados, so she does not know what Tituba said. Abigail was trying to act innocent, and says that Tituba made Abigail and the other girls drink chicken blood, and Tituba confesses to it. There is a lot of questioning going on, while all eyes may be off of Abigail, and now on the foreign slave. They went to go accuse Tituba instead of a little white girl because, Tituba was a slave,…

Tituba confesses to witchcraft as a last resort to be saved and Reverend Hale promises that he “... will protect [her]”(Miller,46) An advantage to confessing and blaming others Tituba is now saved from death. Reverend Hale at this point of the play has a lot of authority over the witch trials and his word of protection means a lot to Tituba. On the other hand, Tituba still ends up in jail and goes insane which is evident in her saying…

Josue Madrigal Mrs. Gilmore English 16 September 2015 A Break with Charity and Crucible Essay Throughout the course of history people who have lied will be persecuted, but giving the situation lying is justifiable. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi, we see that many characters lie throughout the books so save themselves and others by agreeing to lie in order to save their lives and to claim falsely that they are a witch;…

a lot of conflicts including Tituba being accused of dancing with the devil. By false accusation from a group of girls in the village, they force her to admit to it so that she can save her own life. Along with a village girl named Abby, who is mostly responsible with everything that’s going on in the book, and a farmer named John Proctor. In the beginning of the book, in the town of Salem, a group of girls was caught dancing in a forest with a black slave named Tituba. They were caught by the…

Imagine being an innocent person accused of being a communist and jailed. In the article about McCarthy and the Red Scare, Alan Brinkley states how the Red Scare started rumors that affected the way people acted. Alan Brinkley states in the article, “The Red Scares were fears when government officials and other groups promoted a fear of communism in the United States, which would overthrow capitalism and democracy” (Brinkley). The government starts to fear that there were communists in the…

run-in with the law. In 1649, she was accused of fornicating out of a wedlock with Thomas Hardwell and in 1663, she was accused of wearing a silk scarf (Rebecca Brooks). Many of the people accused were never tried. Sarah Goode, Sarah Osbourne, and Tituba were the first three people…

In the story The Crucible, Abigail Williams niece of Reverend Parris, has a plan to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor. Throughout the story Abigail’s plan did work. When Abigail gets help from her uncle’s slave, Tituba, they get caught doing “black magic”. Abigail tried to cast a spell in the woods to make sure Elizabeth would be gone. “Black magic” is not welcomed in Salem. Over all Abigail’s plan did work, but not with the spell. The reason Abigail wants to get rid of Elizabeth was her husband,…

argue that Tituba was actually innocent and did nothing to harm anyone within the play. Though this seems correct upon first read, when one examines the play closer, her or she will clearly see that if Tituba had not fibbed in the first place, none of the other girls would have followed in her footsteps. Tituba states, “He say Mr. Parris must be kill! Mr. Parris no goodly man, Mr. Parris mean man and no gentle man, and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat!” (1156). After Tituba says…

lives of others. Because of the strictness of the Puritans, Abigail Williams feels obligated to maintain a good reputation but hurts others and causes hysteria in the process. Abigail feels pressured to maintain a respectable reputation and hurts Tituba to achieve it. “PARRIS: Your name in the town- it is entirely white is it not? ABIGAIL, with an edge of resentment: Why, I am sure it is, sir. There be no blush about my name” (11). Should the whole thing have quotes around it? When Reverend…

The mass hysteria of witchcraft led to the assumptions that witches were present among the innocent because of direct admission of some and visions of witches by others which is illustrated in the hearing of the first accused witches. In the event of the Salem Witch Trials, dozens of innocent people were put to their death for truly grotesque reasons. One morning in January of 1692, two girls by the names of Betty Parris and Abigail Williams began experiencing anomalous fits, eventually leading…