Abigail says that Tituba send out her spirit on her, and even makes her do things that are devil. Tituba also has Abigail under her spell and even in her dreams, which isn’t true of witch craft. Abigail was the accuser of witch craft but the things like under spell and a fallacy how it sounds. Other accuser in The Crucible was Reverend Hale. For example, “Tituba.
Abigail purposely plants false evidence inside the Proctors’ home by manipulating Mary Warren, the Proctors’ teenage servant. In Act II, Abigail gives Mary a poppet – a doll typically associated with witchcraft – who in turn gives it to Elizabeth. Later, this poppet is used as a weapon against Elizabeth because Abigail accuses her of using the poppet to bewitch her. “‘Stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out. And demandin’ of her how she come to be so stabbed, she testify it were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed it in’” (Miller 71).
When Hales questions her about witch crafting, she responds saying, “‘He say Mr. Parris must be kill! Mr. Parris no goodly men, Mr. Parris mean man and no gentle man, and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat!’” (848). Since Hale orders her to speak the truth about the devil, Tituba voices out all her hostilities towards her master, and blames that it is suggestions from the devil. At the same time, she can accuse “‘white people’” (848) with the devil. Hale claims that Tituba is “‘selected’” and is “‘chosen to cleanse our village’” (848).
When Hale comes and visits John and Elizabeth Proctor; he wants to investigate the people who are accused in court. Elizabeth and Proctor are astonished when Hale mentions that Rebecca Nurse has been accused of witchcraft. In the Crucible Rebecca Nurse is pictured as a saint throughout the play. The first clue that shows Hale is beginning to notice something wrong is when Rebecca’s been charged by saying “God forbid such a one be charged” (Miller 1210). Towards the end of Act II he starts to have some suspicion on what is going on because now Elizabeth Proctor is accused of witchcraft.
A radical religion called Puritanism was vitally important to the people of Salem, and they were extraordinarily paranoid of the Devil. Two characters in the book The Crucible demonstrate how Puritanism affected the society. Judge Danforth is an example of religious ignorance and ends up being the person who condemns everyone, suspecting they are all witches. On the other hand, John Proctor is a level headed farmer who watches as his friends and their wives are accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death, that is, until his own wife is accused. Using these foil characters, Arthur Miller exemplifies the difference between people who are weak minded and cowardly versus people who are strong-minded and brave.
While winter wore on, the girls began to show signs of odd sicknesses. When the village doctor called and could find nothing physically wrong with the girls, he concluded that the evil hand was on them. Mr. Parris begged the affected girls to name the witches, and so Elizabeth blurted out the name of Tituba and other names such as Sarah Good, a despised pipe-smoking beggar, and Sarah Osborne, who had scandalized the village by living openly with a man before marriage. In seven months time, seven men and thirteen women were executed for practicing witch craft, many on the basis of the testimony of ghosts and specters. Those who would not confess were killed and Tituba was spared and sold by the Parrises.
Jillian Johnson Professor Carl Miller English 1020 25 June 2011 Goodman Brown’s Loss of Innocence Since the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve, the temptation of sin is what inevitably dictates people’s lives. In the allegorical story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, he portrays man’s struggle with temptation through the use of the protagonist, Goodman Brown. Goodman Brown, looses his innocence while he travels deeper into the dark forest, and has an experience that forever left an impression on his life. Hawthorne relies on symbolism to overall portray the allegorical journey of the fall of man to sin. The story begins when Goodman Brown has to leave his beautiful wife, Faith, whose name is no accident, to go on a journey in the dark woods.
In act II of The Crucible, Arthur Miller features two characters who stood out as very closed-minded. Reverend Hale and Mary Warren provide evidence of closed-mindedness because they reject the truth before them. Reverend Hale shows his closed-mindedness when John Proctor cannot recite the Ten Commandments. Mary Warren's closed-mindedness proves when Abigail Williams gets stabbed and Cheevek found a poppet in John Proctor's house. Reverend Hale's closed mind prevented him from seeing the true John Proctor Hale arrives at Proctor's house to warn him that Elizabeth has been accused of witchcraft.
The author begins his prose with the symbol of the time of day; sunset which represents an ambiguous time of day and represents the end of something abstract. Why would someone begin their journey at the end of the day? Hawthorn also dashes in more irony and symbolism by having the setting of the prose in a Salem village, a village where the Salem Witch Trials set forth and on all hallows eve, a place and time where such sorrow and hatred are exhibited. Goodman Brown's wife, Faith, symbolizes Brown's spiritual faith and the pink ribbon she wears in her hair demonstrates her purity and innocence. Faith is also a symbol of Eve, curious and corrupted by evil because of that fact.
Throughout the entire play, Abigail Williams uses her good name to control Salem by accusing people of witchcraft, which results in the deaths of many people in the town. After witnessing Tituba confess to Reverend Hale, Abigail confesses “I saw Sarah Good with the devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the devil!” (Miller 189). Abigail realizes that by giving the names of people she saw with the devil she can control Salem because she has a good name and people will listen to her.