Tituba's Monologue In The Crucible '

I chose the character Tituba because she is one of the main reasons for the disturbance in this story. In the Puritan town Salem, Massachusetts of New England, a black slave named Tituba and a few girls were dancing in the forest. While dancing Reverend Parris caught Tituba and his daughter Betty acting out, suddenly Betty falls into a state like coma. Many town people gather at the Parris’s house with rumors of black magic. So Reverend Parris sent for Reverend Hale a professional on the art of black magic, then he began too question Abigail Williams which was his niece and the mastermind behind the whole episode that took place in the forest. When Abigail was question she said, Tituba, the girls and herself were only “dancing.” Mind you, Tituba was a slave owned by Reverend Parris, which

Tituba was convicted for practicing black magic; it was characteristically biased during that time. When Tituba was arrested in Salem, Massachusetts, she said to her jailer, “Devil, him be pleasure-man in Barbados, him be singing and dancing, It's you folks, you riles him up 'round here; He freeze his soul in Massachusetts, but in Barbados he just as sweet.” (IV.15). Tituba never saw that her singing, dancing, and spell casting as an evil practice.
The Puritans said that Tituba practices what they called black magic; but it was the deceitful Abigail who influenced Tituba into practicing the black arts whenever it suited herself and her evil deeds. Tituba acknowledges her sins, but we never knew what happened to her in the story. This uncertainty of her destiny emphasizes whether she was a witch or not.
It was very ironic to see the Puritans, come to America in order to escape spiritual oppression, and still practice the black arts when they came to Massachusetts; the state of Massachusetts is very well known as the place where they burn witches at the stake or hung them at the