Mass Hysteria In the book “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, the characters were strong believers of witches and witchcraft. What started off as a little lie, grew way out of portion, which can be blamed on a few specific characters. They caused the death of many innocent people that were falsely accused of being witches/doing witchcraft and/or working with the devil.
The first major one being Abigail, she single handedly made all of the children afraid to speak about what happened in the woods. She threaten to kill them the way she saw the indians kill her parents. “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; I saw Indians smash my
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Even after the fact, when confronted by Reverend Parris she admitted to doing witchcraft in the woods. “You beg me to conjure! She beg me make charm.” After that she added fuel to the fire by saying that the devil was telling to kill people and that she saw some women from the town were working for the devil. “Oh, how many times he bid me .kill you, Mr. Parris!” and also adds “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! They gasp. But I tell him “No! I don’t hate that man. I don’t want 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 way high up in the air, and you gone fly back to Barbados!” And I say, “You lie, Devil, you lie!” And then he come one stormy night to me, and he say, “Look! I have white people belong to me.” And I look - and there was Goody