Tituba's Monologue In The Crucible '

In act 3 brought into the court Proctor brings Mary Warren to testify against Abigail about her villainous plan that got Elizabeth proctor arrested.Confessing about the doll being in the presence of Elizabeth. Mary tells the court how Abigail pretends with the help of the other girls. On act 3 still Mary states “ It were pretense, sir.” Giving Abigail up about her plan to get at Elizabeth. “ I cannot lie no more. I am with God, I am with God.”Abigail states”.”I have naught to change, sir. She lies”.”: I—I cannot tell how, but I did. I—I heard the other girls screaming, and you, Your Honor, you seemed to believe them, and I—It were only sport in the beginning, sir, but then the whole world cried spirits, spirits, and I—I promise you, Mr. Danforth,

People in Salem thought that there was witchcraft going on when people were acting weir. One piece of evidence that the people of Salem used to prove that there was witchcraft was Mr. Collins saw Betty fly over the barn. “Mrs. Putnam glancing at Betty: How high did she fly, how high?” Page 12. Word about Betty flying over the barn spread through the town. The Revere is worried that people will think that his daughter Betty will be accused of witch craft. Abigail was caught dancing with Tituba by her uncle. “Abigail: Uncle, we did dance; let you tell them I confessed it and I’ll be wiped if I must be. But they’re speaking of witch craft. Betty not witched.” Page 9. The people of Salem are blaming people of witch craft if they are acting

I’m sure many of you have heard about the Salem Witch Trials, when many people were accused of witchcraft. When did it all start, you may ask? How? Well, two girls named Betty and Abigail Parris began displaying some odd behavior. They were having seizures and convulsions, shrieked loudly, entered trances, and suffered from high fevers. When their father finally called a physician, he said that the sisters may be enduring the effects of witchcraft. When asked who they thought were witches, they named three people: Tituba, a slave whom had been telling them stories about witchcraft from her native country, the Barbados; Sarah Good, a peasant mother; and Sarah Osborne, who regularly didn’t attend church. The two Sarahs

In the beginning of the play, Tituba, Reverend Parris’ servant, takes Abigail, Betty, and many other girls into the forest. They dance around a fire and Tituba sings songs, seemingly innocent. The day after, people are saying that Tituba is a witch and was performing a black magic ritual. Then later, she is asked to forgive her sins and “call out” the other supposed witches she has seen practicing witchcraft. I don’t think that Tituba is justified in doing this.

As seen above, Abigail accuses Goody Osburn as being with Devil. On page 54 Mary Warren says, “Goody Osburn-will hang!” Due to Abigail’s accusation Goody Osburn has been sentenced to death. Abigail is guilty of murder, even of the one she claims to love… Page 110 Mary Warren goes back to Abigail’s side and accuses Proctor of being under the Devil’s power. Abigail does nothing to save him and he is sent to the prisons and soon to hang least he confess. On the very last page, 134, Proctor takes his death march to the gallows under the fault of

“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!”. This quote was said by Tituba in “The Crucible” after being accused of bewitching the girls. Tituba was a slave from Barbados and was taken to Salem after being bought by Reverend Parris. She was mistreated by Mr.Parris, she was constantly whipped and beat. After confessing to witchcraft Tituba goes crazy in jail and starts saying her and Sarah Good are going to fly with the devil to Barbados.

Leo Tolstoy, author of the critically acclaimed novel War and Peace, wrote, “It’s too easy to criticize a man when he’s out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else’s mistakes.” Throughout history, social pariahs have served as scapegoats for the privileged; perhaps the most notorious--and treacherous--example of this were the Salem Witch Trials, where vengeance forced blame and death upon usually low-tiered citizens. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Parris’ slave Tituba confesses to witchcraft in order to escape death, while also recognizing the immense power she previously could never dream of having. It is undeniable that Tituba’s accusations and lies perpetuated the hysteria: she is not entirely blameless. However, the reader must also acknowledge the circumstances leading up to her wrongdoing in order to understand why Tituba’s innocence truly outweighs her guilt: the way in which Tituba is regarded as a slave speaks to the traumatizing powerlessness that she faced; her paganistic religion presented a rare opportunity for Tituba to attain trust and amusement from the girls; and she needed to lie and falsely accuse others so that she could both escape death and gain newfound freedoms.

It might appear as if Tituba is the one who is most responsible for the witchcraft hysteria in Salem. Tituba said, “No,no, chicken blood. I give she chicken blood!” (1109). She had given Abigail blood to drink so Abigail could casts a curse that could kill Elizabeth Proctor. If Tituba had never given Abigail the blood, the girls would have never gone to the forest to conjure spirits. Mrs. Putnam said, “Tituba knows how to speak to the dead, Mr. Parris” (1095). Mrs. Putnam had lost seven children soon after their births which made her believe that there was witchcraft involved in the death of her babies. Mrs. Putnam sent her only daughter to go to Tituba to conjure up the spirits of all her dead children. Clearly, if Tituba had not tried to

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Tituba is most to blame for the Salem Witch Trials. Tituba was a slave from Barbados that worked for Reverend Parris. She performed the roles of the wife, even though they were not married. Tituba practices what the Puritans contemplates as black magic, but she only practices at the appeal of Abigail Williams. She never considered spell casting, dancing, and singing was premeditated evil because those practices were spiritual and common descending from her African roots. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Miller demonstrated that it was Tituba’s flaws Gullibility, Immaturity, and Ignorance that led her to be most responsible for the tragedy of the witch-hunt in Salem.

Abigail was being accused repeatedly of lying and making up all of the accusations which were of false nature. The many people who were hung because of her testimony was what would now hang over her head. When she was brought before Mary Warren her false tears and outcries of pain were all an act, but in her mind she was the only one who was correct in her dealings. Abigail was for unfathomable reasons a port of knowledge through which the judges and lawyers convicted and sent to death those who were accused. The awful girl was but of one mind. She wanted revenge and to be back to her “love”, John Proctor. Abigail tried and tried repeatedly to get her hands on John, she tried to get his wife hanged, and when she couldn’t have him she decided that no one else could. Abigail soon began to accuse John Proctor of the precise thing she was known for, witchcraft. Abigail had been in the woods when the young Mary Warren went mute from the shock of seeing Abigail drink chickens blood and curse Goody Proctor, all of these happenings had to do with Abigail Williams, and now she would have to suffer through her own crucible, to figure out how she was going to get out. And though Abigail did narrowly escape the major shackles of her crimes, the guilt and foreboding of being a treacherous liar found her rumored to be a young prostitute in Boston. Forever to be alone and used. That was Abigail’s crucible and punishment for all the problems and

Abigail’s fear of prosecution and of losing John Proctor causes her to cry witch. When Reverend Hale asks Abigail if she called “the Devil last night” (42), she realizes her peril, and says “I never called him! Tituba, Tituba . . . “ (42), diverting the accusations from herself onto Tituba. Abigail notices Warren storing a needle in the belly of a poppet after sewing it in court. Abigail sticks a needle into her stomach the next day and cries witchcraft. Later, the blame of witchery falls on Elizabeth Proctor because Mary Warren gave her the stabbed poppet. Abigail designs to see Elizabeth Proctor hanged, and believes that John Proctor will be “singing secret hallelujahs” (152) with her when she does. Abigail cries witch on Elizabeth Proctor so that she does not lose John Proctor. The driving fears of Abigail and Tituba contrast in that Abigail’s are complex and twisted whereas Tituba’s are primal and straightforward.

“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!” This quote was said by Tituba in The Crucible after being accused of bewitching the girls. Tituba was a slave from Barbados and was taken to Salem after being bought by Reverend Parris. She was mistreated by Mr.Parris and was constantly whipped and beat. After confessing to witchcraft, Tituba goes crazy in jail and starts saying she and Sarah Good are going to fly with the devil to Barbados. Tituba and I have a variety of similar personality traits in that we are unique, caring, and an outcast.

Abigail was a servant in Proctor´s house. Elizabeth was not a very loving woman. Proctor fell for Abigail created an affair with her. “After he had confessed it to Elizabeth, she dismissed her from her service because she did not want to tell the people in Salem that the reason was the affair between John and Abigail.” (Dulain). Abigail, Tituba and the girls went to the forest in the morning. They danced and murmured words, Abigail drank blood to curse John Proctor’s wife Elizabeth, and she would do anything to have John Proctor. Reverend Paris fond blood, Abigail and the girl’s dancing, and mercy naked. Abigail knew drinking blood is a form of witchcraft, so she tries to cover up on what they actually did in the forest. She threatens the girls to not say a word or she will harm them. "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." (Miller)

When Abigail accused her of witchcraft, Tituba dined all of the accusations. Unlike Abigail, Tituba did not have a plan to defend herself. She was also not able to control the girls and make them tell the truth. When Tituba was threatened to be hanged, she changed her mentality on the situation. Instead of dining what she had done, she confessed her sins. During her confession, shame affected what she revealed to the others. Tituba said that the devil had control of her, and wanted her to kill Reverend Parris. This was Tituba’s way of admitting that she had thought about killing Reverend Paris. Tituba also took the center of attention off of herself by

[Sitting down, eyes closed and hands gathered, praying] "Dear heavenly father, I bow my head down to you now, asking you for your forgiveness. I have committed a grave sin even resulting in someone being executed. I wronged you father and I shouldn't have confessed to having connections with the devil.