The Crucible
the crucible
summarize the conversation between Herrick,Good, and Tituba. What does this show about the mental state of the prisoners?
summarize the conversation between Herrick,Good, and Tituba. What does this show about the mental state of the prisoners?
Miller demonstrates this immediately in the comic interlude that opens the act. Tituba and Sarah Good are foolish comic foils whose claims of communing with Satan are intended to be absurd. Yet while these women are spared the gallows because they have confessed to witchcraft, those like Rebecca Nurse who refuse to admit to a crime they did not commit remain sentenced to execution.