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Let The Witches In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

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Let the witches hang The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller about the Salem Witch Trials in the 1690’s. The author's purpose is to inform the readers of the importance of the events of the Salem Witch Trials. In the play The Crucible the trials started off by a few girls and a slave naming off random names that are “witches”, because they were caught dancing in the woods and one of the girls was running in the woods naked. It soon became a frightening time for the residents of salem because the girls would call random people out and say they came to them in spirit and tried to kill them. Those people the “used” their spirits to try and kill them were than set to hang. 20 people were actually killed because of the nonsense of the …show more content…

Hale about their night of dancing and if they were drinking anything and if something was put in the pot that Tituba was sitting by “chanting” by the fire. As Rev. Hale questions Abigail she gets the mind set and takes the heat off of her and Abigail blames tituba. “Abigail: She made me do it! She made Betty do it! Tituba:(shocked and angry) Abby! Abigail: She made me drink blood!” (page 482 lines 1183-1186). These lines are important because it shows how the story went from a little girl being sick to a slave being considered as a witch. When the witch hunter Rev. Hale comes to salem he tries to get Tituba to Confess that she worked with the devil and she starts to worship God and say how the devil wanted her to kill Rev. Proctor. After Tituba opened herself to God Hale asked if there was anyone else with her that was working with the devil, and that's when Abigail and the girls opening themselves to god and shouting random villagers names that were “working” with the devil.”Tituba: - there was Goody Good. Betty: I saw George Jacobs with the Devil! I saw Goody Howe with the Devil!. Abigail: I saw Goody Sibber with the Devil.” (Pgs. 484-485 lines: 1344-1389). This was important because it showed the chaos that was to happen because of Abigail and her

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Tituba may have lead the girls in song and dance, but Abigail was the leader of the group of girls. While in the woods, Abigail drank blood from a chicken. In doing so, she thought she could kill an innocent lady, Goody Proctor. With her out of the way, Abigail could have Goody Proctor's husband all to herself. The next day, when Betty Parris was ill, Abigail knew what had happened.

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God will bless you for your help”. (47) Betty has convinced Reverend Hale and the others that she is the victim and has done nothing wrong. This innocence is used as guilt for Tituba to make up names, even though Reverend Hale, who came into Salem with such an abundance of power, now is completely lead astray with the fake witchcraft present in the town due to Betty’s control of the situation at hand. Betty, throughout the first act, displayed her manipulative and dominant nature by taking power from certain powerful figures in the

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Blamed for the Salem Witch Trials The Crucible,written by Arthur Miller, is about the witch trials that began in Salem, Massachusetts and involved several horrors no one would want to experience. People were accused, hanged or even crushed to death while being questioned. Miller describes the horror perfectly and he insinuates that Abigail Williams was the girl to begin the Salem Witch Trials.

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Abigail knows the impeccably high standards of the Puritan society and the brutal punishment that would come if one did conspire with the devil, yet she puts Tituba into this situation. Later, she proves herself even more wicked by silently watching the agony she bestowed upon innocent Tituba. Not only did this accusation deeply injure an innocent woman, but it allowed for the beginnings of the chaotic, devastating witch hunt. Instead of confessing and stopping dozens of people from dying, Abigail continued to agitate the situation by claiming to be bewitched by multiple people. For example, “ The wings!

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With people in the growing against Abigail she begins to ruin anyone who goes against what she says. When Abigail accuses Goody Proctor John Proctor makes Mary Warren go to court to prove that Abigail is a fraud. Now that there is someone who is against abigail, abigail begins to fear that she may be proven a fraud and lose her power. With Abigail angry at Mary Warren for turning against her she starts to say how she sees a bird sent from Mary that is going to “tear [her] face” with this all the other girls begin to fear the bird that they say Mary sent upon them (Miller 1209). With part of the town in actual fear of witches and the other part in fear of abby there is now a huge hysteria going around and the town is not able to function

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As Tituba was accused of witchery, Hale takes her hand and tells her “confess yourself to witchcraft, and that God will protect you” (24). Tituba overwhelmed with fear was frightened

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