The Crucible contains a plethora of flawed and victimised characters who all contribute to the seemingly endless drama held within the town of Salem. In the beginning of the story, there are some characters who are comfortable with their town before things take a turn for the worst. However, when one has been enslaved to follow the orders of an irrational owner, one should know that they would be the exception. This just so happens to be Tituba. Tituba is a negro slave from Barbados whose job it is to tend to the household members within a Puritan household within the god-forsaken town of Salem. Even though Tituba is very caring of the household occupants, she, of course, is not at all pleased with her role as their slave. In fact, she is rather intimidated by her owners, …show more content…
Another example of this could be when various members of the trial aim their assumptions towards Reverend Parris for being greedy as evidenced by him insisting the gold candleholder at the altar of the church and by his pure, egoistic nature. APPEAL TO FORCE: This fallacy runs on throughout The Crucible for it is the technique the judge members go by during trials in order to milk as much information from the prosecuted as possible. The fallacy, or threat, they usually go by is how when the persecuted give up guiding information, that ‘God will have mercy on them’. AD POPULUM: It is because of this fallacy that the witch accusations end up growing as far as they did in The Crucible. Citizens avoided being singled out to avoid accusations against them and would follow in others’ footsteps and be the accusers themselves. In fact, Abigail was the first to start this bandwagon after taking the idea of ‘blame by name’ from Tituba, the first of the