Tituba

In The Crucible, Arthur Miller writes about individuals accusing others for their own welfare within a puritan community. Such accusations caused a period of mass hysteria, resulting in the death of many innocent people. Miller’s play is set in Boston, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials. In The Crucible, neighbors were accusing neighbors without hard evidence, but with social motives. Salem townspeople are motivated to falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft due to lust, fear, and…

When the girls were caught with Tituba, they got scared. They didn’t want to get in trouble. Two girls pretended they couldn’t wake because they were so scared. We know this because Abigail Williams tells John Proctor, “We were dancin’ in the woods last night, and my uncle leaped in on…

The Crucible a historical fiction writing is about the unjust deaths of 19 individuals who refused to say they conjured with witchcraft. The question arises who is to blame for this event in history. Arthur Miller the author to this play is connecting the salem witch trials to the Red Scare. Which was to find out ones who believes in communism and was trying to overthrow the american way of life. The public is the reason for the Red Scare started, but who is the reason for the salem witch trials…

someone to the point of irrationality. The town of Salem was induced with hysteria because of Abigail’s fear of Parris and the others finding out what her and the other girls had done in the forest so she had to start blaming Tituba she cried out “I never called him! Tituba Tituba….. She made me do it! She made Betty do it!” (42/43). Abigail then started to accuse others to insure her safety “ I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to jesus;I kiss his hand. I saw…

The Puritans were a group of Christians who wanted to purify the Church of England. They settled in America where they made a new theoretical society. Because of the theocracy, the Puritans combined the church and the state. The authorities ran the community with no help from the people. The Puritans did not have a fair system for incrimination, and the authorities could make decisions that were not fair or just. In 1692, the Puritan community had a witchcraft epidemic. Many people were falsely…

instantly incriminates Tituba, the african servant, “Hale, grasping Abigail: Abigail, it may be your cousin is dying. Did you call the Devil last night? Abigail: I never called him! Tituba, Tituba...¨(Miller 42). This could be an actual matter of life and death, but still Abigail would not continue to tell the truth about her and the others not trying to conjure spirits or the Devil. Now Tituba has witchcraft associated with her name, so she is basically within the Reaper’s grasp. Tituba ends…

kill him. Once the hysteria died down, Parris was removed from office, left town and was never seen again. Finally, characters are still incarcerated. A cell in Salem jail, that fall. He [Marshal Herrick] hangs his lantern on the wall. Tituba sits up. (121). Tituba, despite her attempts to avoid punishment and deflect suspicion, is still put in jail, despite the fact that she did everything Reverend Hale, Parris and others told her to do. She effectively…

at proving no one was being bewitched in the New England colonies. He did however, claim to find Betty bewitched in the beginning of the play. Which led him to say, “[Tituba is] God’s instrument put in our hands to discover the Devil’s agents among us” (46). Hale is accusing Tituba of bewitching the young girl Betty. He tells Tituba that she should help by blaming others and blackening other innocent peoples names in the town. Hale put the idea of accusing people out into Salem. Abigail took…

During questioning, Tituba eventually confessed, naming four other witches, Good, Osborne and two others she did not know. Tituba described to the investigators that the devil was a tall man in a black suit who had a yellow bird, and carried a book, which he urged Tituba to sign. She stated that there was nine marks on the book, two by Good and Osborne. Tituba also confessed to trying to kill, Parris and Williams. Tituba’s confession affected…

What’s the hardest thing you’ve faced in life? A crucible according to Webster’s Dictionary is: a place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change or development. In The Crucible there are many trials or situation in which the town work together to rid their town of the evils of witchcraft. Although, the issue with this is that there are no witches. Everyone they are accusing are being accused on false pretenses and hanged on false pretenses. A Crucible is a…