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Click the character infographic to download. Tituba admits her supposed sin, but we never really find out what happens to her. The ambiguity of her fate actually emphasizes that whether or not these women are in fact witches is totallybeside the point. And we have to say that, although there is nothing in the play that directly comments on it, racism undoubtedly plays a huge part in her fate.
To accomplish this, Abigail makes it look like Elizabeth is practicing witchcraft by claiming that Elizabeth sticks needles in the poppet that Mary Warren gave Elizabeth in order to cause Abigail pain.
When Mary Warren tells the court the truth that the girls were just pretending that they were being affected by witchcraft, she is challenged by Parris, Hathorne, and Danforth, and she is intimidated by the other girls.
Mary explains that she fainted because she thought she saw spirits. Abigail Williams tells John Proctor that the witchcraft is not real.
After Reverend Parris finds Abigail, Betty Parris, and some other girls dancing in the woods, Betty becomes unresponsive. This makes the townspeople think witchcraft is involved, and the girls play along with the idea, accusing other townspeople of being witches. Hale presses Danforth to pardon them when they refuse to confess to witchcraft, but Danforth will not relent.
Hale sees that the court has become feared in Salem for its brutality and lack of justice. Instead of saving his own life, John Proctor chooses to guard his reputation and not accuse others of witchcraft.
When John confesses to being guilty, Deputy Governor Danforth pressures John to name other people who might have sided with the devil. John dies with his integrity intact.
SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Why is the play called The Crucible? What is a crucible? Did the girls really see the Devil or witches? Why did Tituba confess to dancing with the Devil? Was John still in love with Abigail? What causes tension between John and Elizabeth Proctor? Why is Rebecca Nurse accused of witchcraft? Sarah and Tituba tell Herrick that they are waiting for the Devil.
They plan to fly to Barbados with the Devil. Several months have passed since the action in the play began. Act I opened in the spring of , and the season is now fall. The court has already executed twelve people from Salem, and has scheduled seven more to die today. Although Tituba was told in Act I that she would be spared if she revealed her alliance with the Devil, along with her knowledge of other individuals "in truck" with the Devil, she has in fact been imprisoned.
Sarah and Tituba have been in prison so long that they have come to believe that they are in league with the Devil.
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