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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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