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A 5 page paper which compares how evil temptation affects the characters of Rev. Samuel Parris and the slave Tituba; John Proctor and Abigail Williams; and ‘Goodman’ Brown and his wife, Faith. No additional sources are used.
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File: TG15_TGwitlit.rtf
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This was the major preoccupation of the Puritan zealots who relocated to New England in order to escape religious persecution and freely practice their austere and often unforgiving faith.
Their beliefs were engraved in stone and any deviation met with serious ostracism and deadly consequences that culminated in the witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts during the late seventeenth century.
The victims of these witch hunts were predominantly women, who for various reasons were chosen to serve as examples of what can occur when evil desires or motivations from
the soul dictate thoughts and actions. The tragic tales I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde, Arthur Millers The Crucible (a 1953 play which became a 1996
film directed by Nicholas Hytner) and Nathaniel Hawthornes short story, "Young Goodman Brown," consider the effects of evil and also how societys moral determinants and influence citizens perceptions of evil
and how it should be eradicated. The protagonist of I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, was a dark-skinned young woman who was transported from Barbados in the seventeenth century to
the white bread world of New England. She became the slave of influential Puritan minister Samuel Parris. Reverend Parriss sermons were full of all the fire and brimstone
of a religious fanatic. Whenever evil would cross his path, such as in the form of an ominous black cat, "Samuel Parris seized his prayer book and began to
recite a seemingly endless prayer" (Conde 44). For him, Tituba was the quintessential black cat. She had brought with her folk tales and primitive spells from the islands
which quickly earned her the reputation of being "the most awesome of witches!" (Conde 86) But as the text revealed, Tituba was mistreated not because she was a witch,
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