The Salem Witch Trials In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

The Crucible paper A Crucible is a severe trial in which people would stand before a high priest judge and determined if the person practices witchcraft. If found guilty, then the Person would be hanged for their witchery practices. This occurs In 1692, a small town called Salem, Massachusetts, breaks out in fear when witchcraft is in their town. Arthur Miller writes and product the play The Crucible after the ¨Red Scare” event that happened in the united states in 1950. Miller Researches the witch trials and then compares the ¨red scare¨ to the Salem witch trials to show how history repeats itself. Tituba, a character in the story, went dancing in the woods with a group of girls and drank blood. It soons comes back to her and she is to

To begin, Tituba is being whipped by Mr. Parris for dancing and drinking blood until she finally confesses that she was with the devil. Rev. Hale states, “You have confessed yourself to witchcraft and that speaks a wish to come to heavenś side. And we will bless you tituba¨(Miller 161). Here, tituba comes out and admits that the devil has come from below and has taken her. Tituba’s ignorance gets carried away a little carried away when she says the number of people that was with the devil that night. Soon after that Tituba calls out the names of good and goody Osborn, the girls step in and start calling out names and the list grows vastly because of tituba’s ignorance confession. Secondly, tituba is also shown to be ignorant when she makes up a lie that the devil told her to kill mr. Parirris. Tituba States, “He say Mr. Parris must be killed! Mr. Parris no goody man, Mr. Paris mean man and no gentle man, and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat!” (162). Tituba tries to confess to rev. Hale to spare her life through her ignorance. She makes up the lie that the devil gave her orders to carry out a murder on Mr. Parris with tituba saying these false statements, little does she know that she is stirring up more trouble saying these lies that she has been with the

Tituba and Mr. Parris argue, “Tituba; my betty be hearty soon? Parris; out of here! Tituba; my betty not goin die… Parris; out of my sight! (Miller 141-142). Here, it is clear that tituba gets told what to do by being pushed around by Mr. Parris. Although she is a slave, she still gets told what to do because everyone knows that she can be accused very easily because she is a slave and back then and even today (if we still had slaves today) slaves weren't given many rights as the regular towns people. Next, Tituba continues her flaw to be subservient when she is confronted with Rev. Hale asking of her to wake betty up and break her of the devil. The characters state, “Hale; I want you to wake this child’ Tituba; I have no power on this child, sir” (161). Here, Rev. Hale is telling Tituba to release the devil of betty’s soul. Abigail blames Tituba saying that she forces the girls to dance and drink blood. But once again, Tituba is put in the same position of being told what to do because she is a slave and most likely targeted. These facts precisely show that Tituba is ignorance and Subservient throughout the play and the whole reason why the crucible got started in the first