A slave brought to the Americas from Barbados, Tituba is a naive, and significant character overlooked in Puritan Society. She caused the uproar of witchcraft making Tituba responsible for the mass hysteria that occurred in Salem. Brought to Salem from Barbados, Tituba began working as Reverend Parris slave. Following her culturally rooted background, Tituba brought along a group of girls into the woods to start casting spells, and perform “black magic.” Eventually in the story the girls are found dancing in the woods by Reverend Parris and the blame is amongst Tituba. Being an extremely vulnerable character she automatically relinquished. As her last resort she names characters and accuses them of being along side of the Devil that came to her. In a quote, her timidness can easily be represented. “(In a fury) He say Mr.Parris must be killed (...) But he say you work for me Tituba …show more content…
Bless him (She is rocking on her knees sobbing in terror) (Miller.1.134).” This confession is an obvious implication of acting without thinking, which, can be another reason for the hysteria.Due to the quick decision she made it impacted the girls greatly because most measures they took were not well-thought out. Immediately after the impetuous actions Tituba took the girls followed in her steps by falsely accusing many innocent civilians in Salem. Tituba: “(...) And there was Goody Good (Miller.1.134).” In which all the girls who joined in Tituba start accusing people “Aye, sir and Goody Osbourn (Miller.1.136).” From the beginning to when leading the girls to the woods, and influencing them to accuse many innocent people. Tituba is a very persuasive character as she gave it upon these girls to accuse many other innocent Salemites, maybe not directly but you could definitely see a substantial decision the group of girls took upon themselves to accuse many other people after Tituba