Cali Van Moorlehem P.2

Most responsible for the witchcraft hysteria In The Crucible (1953), Arthur Miller explains to us about how the witchcraft hysteria which causes people in Salem MA. to start freaking out when they have evil spirits around them. When Abby starts to blame Tituba for taking all the girls into the woods and makes them dance. Abby is a girl is having an affair with John Proctor is the guy that knows the girls are pretending but can't confess , Abigail begins to turn on Tituba and she will confess to the slaves. Also Abby likes to call people out …show more content…
Tituba wants everyone to be freed because of what they did, especially Betty. Tituba says " My Betty not goin' die..."(Miller 138). What she means by this is that Betty is too young to die and needs to have more experience before she can die. Tituba blames herself because she doesn't want the girls to be sentenced to death. Also she feels like if she does this she will be looked down upon by others, Tituba wants to be known as the good influence and always wanting to help others so they will not have to go through what she's going through right …show more content…
Tituba says, "I love me Betty!" (Miller 156). What she is trying to tell us by this is that she really does look up to Betty and has no respect for Abby because of everything that Abby has done to her and when Abby gets asked to tell them names in the court the bad influences were one of the first names that had popped into her head was Titubas name because she thinks of her as a bad influence. Tituba is most to blame because she made everyone do things that they all knew were wrong but they didn't wanted to be looked down upon by