5. I, TITUBA, THE BLACK WITCH OF SALEM

Here Tituba meets Christopher who asks her if she is a witch.

By this time in the text, Tituba had heard herself referred to as ‘witch’ on numerous occasions, and as the text progressed the word seemed to stop affecting her as much. I liked her response to Christopher, it was very accurate -she didn’t deny or agree, but she simply replied honestly. “Everyone believes they can fashion a witch to his way of thinking so that she will satisfy his ambitions, dreams and desires..”. Whenever people thought that Tituba and her powers were able to help grant their wishes, her power was all good but the moment she couldn’t help them or refused to, she was either weak or evil.

So the definition of a witch as Tituba said: “Everyone gives the word a different meaning”.

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