Crucible
English Culminating (Seminar)- The Crucible : Marginalization of Difference
Thesis: In every community there are outsiders who do not fit in for many reasons, but the way the accepted community perceives and judges the outsider and there actions dictates how much they are respected.
Tituba
Point: In The Crucible, there is one character that can clearly be seen as an outsider in the Salem community. Tituba, who is a black woman from Barbados was brought to Salem, Massachusetts by Parris. Tituba is not respected in the community as she is recognized as a slave due to her skin color and her Barbados culture. She is treated like she should not be acknowledged, let alone compared to anyone as it is looked at as an insult.
Proof: Conversations about Tituba in the play, show that she is contrasted to everyone else in Salem. When Abigail tells Parris that The Proctors kicked her out of their house because they wanted her to be a slave, which we all know was untrue, she says, “They want slaves, not such I. Let them send to Barbados for that. I will not black my face for any of them!”(pg.12)
Analysis: Abigail refuses to even be slightly compared to Tituba as she gets very defensive and yells at Parris, proving the point that Tituba is an outsider due to her skin color. Especially when Abigail says, “I will not black my face for any them!” The act of ‘blackening her face” shows that once someone views you as having darker skin in Salem, you will be labeled a slave, which is considered to be an outsider to them.
Point: Also, in the first act of the book, after the witchcraft takes place and Betty falls ill, Tituba is the first to be blamed for it. Its not surprising that Tituba is the first to be accused because in the beginning of the book we learn that Tituba’s “slave sense has warned her that, as always, trouble in this house eventually lands on her back.”(pg.8)
Proof: While Parris talks to Abigail about what went on in the forest, Parris says:
“I
Thesis: In every community there are outsiders who do not fit in for many reasons, but the way the accepted community perceives and judges the outsider and there actions dictates how much they are respected.
Tituba
Point: In The Crucible, there is one character that can clearly be seen as an outsider in the Salem community. Tituba, who is a black woman from Barbados was brought to Salem, Massachusetts by Parris. Tituba is not respected in the community as she is recognized as a slave due to her skin color and her Barbados culture. She is treated like she should not be acknowledged, let alone compared to anyone as it is looked at as an insult.
Proof: Conversations about Tituba in the play, show that she is contrasted to everyone else in Salem. When Abigail tells Parris that The Proctors kicked her out of their house because they wanted her to be a slave, which we all know was untrue, she says, “They want slaves, not such I. Let them send to Barbados for that. I will not black my face for any of them!”(pg.12)
Analysis: Abigail refuses to even be slightly compared to Tituba as she gets very defensive and yells at Parris, proving the point that Tituba is an outsider due to her skin color. Especially when Abigail says, “I will not black my face for any them!” The act of ‘blackening her face” shows that once someone views you as having darker skin in Salem, you will be labeled a slave, which is considered to be an outsider to them.
Point: Also, in the first act of the book, after the witchcraft takes place and Betty falls ill, Tituba is the first to be blamed for it. Its not surprising that Tituba is the first to be accused because in the beginning of the book we learn that Tituba’s “slave sense has warned her that, as always, trouble in this house eventually lands on her back.”(pg.8)
Proof: While Parris talks to Abigail about what went on in the forest, Parris says:
“I