Relationship Between Abigail And Tituba In The Crucible

An incident that started the witch hunt was when the girls appeared dancing in the woods. Abigail denied that nothing happened and said that “it were sport” (Miller 144), even though she was actually drinking a charm to kill Elizabeth. She tries to self-preserve her image and demonstrates that she is innocent through lies and blaming others. After an affair she encountered with John Proctor who was married to Elizabeth, she is still desperate for him. She believes that she is capable of his love and thinks of Elizabeth as a, “cold sniveling woman,” (Miller 150).

Concerned that word about her affair will spread throughout the village, Abigail begins to lie and point fingers at people for witchcraft, hoping it can draw the people’s focus away from her. After she and the girls were discovered in the forest by Reverend Parris, she lies or purposely forgets to mention to that she had drank a potion that would kill John Proctor’s wife. The only thing she said to him was: “We did dance, uncle, and when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly, Betty was frightened and then she fainted. And there's the whole of it.” (Miller 9). In another situation where Abigail's lying is shown again, Parris is asking why she was fired from her previous job as Elizabeth Proctor’s servant, and her excuse is: “She hates me, uncle, she must, for I would not be her slave. It's a bitter woman, a lying, cold, sniveling woman, and I will not work for such woman!” (Miller 11). Clearly this is false because Elizabeth didn't fire Abigail just out of coldness, though that was part of it, she fired her because she found that Abigail was having an affair with her husband, John. These lies led to unnecessary problems and prove Abigail is a self centered person because she only wants what's best for herself.

One character who lies throughout the story to protect herself is Abigail Williams. Abigail starts to tell lies to Reverend Hale that Tituba made her do things to stay out of trouble, but Tituba never made her do anything. However, Abigail claims, “She made me do it” (Miller 592). Abigail starts to point fingers at Tituba to stay out of trouble. Tituba tries to explain to Reverend Hale that she neither has a spell or made the girls do one nor does she work for the devil when she says, “I have no power on this child” (Miller 592), but Tituba gets ignored and yelled at. Reverend Parris threatens to beat Tituba to death with the whip if she does not confess herself, “You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba!” (Miller 592). Than Mr. Putnam says they should hang her, which causes Tituba to confess and go along with the lie, “No, no, don’t hang Tituba! I tell him I don’t desire to work for him, sir” (Miller 592). These passages show that both Abigail and Tituba will do anything to

Tituba is Parris’s slave from Barbados. Tituba was with the girls when they went into the woods and danced around the fire. Abigail told her to cast a spell onto Elizabeth so she would die but before anything could happen they got caught. When accused of witchcraft she confessed so she wouldn’t be hung. She also accused other people with being with the devil and that she even saw them. Tituba told them that the devil told her that she needed to kill Parris but she always told him no that he never has done anything to hurt

Since Abigail is the Reverends niece and grew up with a pastor in the household it seems as if she should be very humble and a good person but her human nature took a toll making her greedy therefore making her dishonest and deceptive. She is afraid that people won’t agree with her, that motivates her to get people on her side. She then falsely accuses others of witchcraft and her being the victim. Witchcraft was taken very seriously back then and it ended up ripping apart the town and caused non stop fighting by almost everyone. Abigail’s main motive is John Proctor so she tries to lie to John about his wife to get him to fall for her “She is blackening my name in the village she is telling lies about me she’s a cold swiveling

“The Crucible” takes place in the late 1600’s in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. At this time, people believed that witchcraft existed and that commonly people practiced it. The town of Salem was a very religiously based settlement and was very strict about its rules towards witches and witchcraft. The play is based off of an actual time when multiple girls lied about practicing witchcraft, and about people using witchcraft to force the girls to use it. Throughout the play, the lie continues to escalate because the girls do not want to get in trouble and the trials and panic gets very out of hand. Three major factors that caused the Salem witch trials to escalate so far

Many of the characters in Arthur Miller's The Crucible have specific human flaws that cause the tragedy of the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem villagers exhibit failings, including greed, vengeance, and fear, which eventually lead to the downfall of their town. Many villagers, especially Abigail Williams, take advantage of the opportunity to seek vengeance on others through the trials. Greed for power and land often holds precedence when the hysteria takes over. Fear of being arrested or put to death is the key motivation in turning others in as witches. From these three human flaws, the town of Salem falls into chaos with many innocent people paying the price.

Names. They are our whole identity. They determine who we are for our whole life. And in The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, he mentions a lot about names. I think he is trying to teach his audience that names mean and represent large amounts of power and dignity and also reputation.

“Let either of you breath a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” (Miller, Act I). This shows that Abigail doesn't want anyone to know what happened in the woods so as to not raise suspicion about the girls delving into witchcraft. Abigail is also not afraid to threaten the other girls to show her power to them. Abigail wants to have more power over all of them so they will fear her and not betray her in fear that Abigail will get them killed or punished in some way. Abigail also want’s to be more powerful than the other girls so she has most say in the courts and so she can sway the opinion of the townspeople. With all of the lying that Abigail is doing there is little hope for this to be worked out in a way so people won't get

Other than Abigail and the girls, I would have to say that Tituba was mainly someone to be held responsible for the trials. In act 1 Abigail accused Tituba of witchcraft which leads to her being questioned about her if she has compacted with the devil. Tituba ultimately confesses having her name in the devils book also mentioning that their are four other names. Along with her accusations of Tituba, Abigail tells Hale all of the things that Tituba has done to her such as laughing, drinking blood, and corruption of dreams. Tituba was also the person responsible for the dancing for the girls dancing in the forest which led to the talk of witchcraft in the Salem

When Reverend Hale asks her about the night of the forest right away she mentions that Tituba was the one committing witchcraft. Shows how she is under pressure when she is asked what had happened, she immediately blames Tituba because she doesn't want to be tried.

Human Failings in The Crucible Read this, if you have ever felt jealous, selfish, or are gaining the feeling of superiority, before you can cause a corruption of yourself. The quote from the prompt, written by Victor Hugo, is explaining how people in society are acting arrogant because they think they are better than everyone else are always put in their place for acting like that. In the book, The crucible by Arthur Miller, shows these negative feelings performed in different characters of the story. All these feelings are caused by different things, it almost makes us feel sympathy for the person who has them. I get these feelings once in awhile, but I have learned to push them back and just be happy with myself.

At the beginning of the play Abigail and the girls and Tituba are all in the forest and they are around a bonfire dancing around and so then Rev. Samuel Parris goes and sees Abigail getting naked. Abigail confesses about doing witchcraft and decided to take it a step higher and starts to accuse everyone for doing witchcraft so marry warren tells john proctor that it’s all fake so john hale and john proctor are the ones telling everyone that those girls are faking everything and so then the girls end up going after Mary Warren so she can't stand it anymore and ends up accusing john proctor for making her to lie to the court and Abigail starts feeling sorry for John Proctor and Steals money and tells him that her and him can go on a boat and never come back since he going to get hanged so he ends up telling her no and so then they try to make John Proctor lie to the court and say he did witchcraft but was going to do it but then ends up ripping the paper so then they end up hanging him.

Being young and cautious, Abigail, was afraid of what people would think of her if she confessed that she was not a witch and faked it. “Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word. About the other things. And I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it…” (Page 19). This is an example of how Abigail is threatening the girls to not speak a word of what happened in the woods. She does not want others to know what the truth was about what happened in the woods because it may affect what people think of her. She is full of pride, and will do anything to get what she wants. “Proctor: ‘I have made a bell of my honor! I have rung the doom of my good name- you

Abigail confesses “Now look you. All of you. We danced and Tituba Conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters and that is all.” Tituba says she doesn’t truck with the Devil. Abigail says Tituba goes to her every night for her to drink some blood. Tituba says “He say Mister Parris must be killed! Mister Parris no good man, Mister Parris mean man and no gentleman, and he bid me to rise out of my bed and cut your throat! I tell him no! I don’t hate that man! I don’t want to kill that man! But he say you work for me Tituba and I make you free! I give you pretty dress to wear, and put you high up in the air and you gonna fly back to Barbados! And I say you lie