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- GROUP 1: To what extent are Tituba's experiences influenced by gender? Is there a discernable difference between the way Tituba is treated and/or expected to behave and the expectations for men?
- GROUP 2: In what ways does geographic location impact Tituba's experiences? Is Salem a better/worse place for her to live? Is it a better/worse place for her to live with John Indian?
- GROUP 3: To what extent is Tituba able to integrate successfully into the community of Salem? What are her contributions to the community and how does the community respond?
Tituba is distort after she witnessed her mothers lynching; she also becomes emotionally unstable and shuts down. For example on page 49 a woman in the town gets lynched and Tituba starts to freak out. This is because of the flashbacks of her mothers lynching. "I screamed and fell to my knees in the middle of this restless,inquisitive, almost joyful crowd." "Yes, it was she and I was six years old again". The town could talk about nothing but the execution. They were very pleased because the woman that was killed was supposedly a witch.
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ReplyDeleteTituba's geographical relocation affects her in a negative way, the move has instilled many challenges. Tituba is unable to practice her ritual and spiritual beliefs because she is unfamiliar with the location. It is not until she meets Old Judah where she reveals her secrets to Tituba on the names and functions of plants and herbs that are available in Boston. " Tituba makes a mental note of some remedies," which are secrets of Old Judah. [Page 51] Tituba cares for Betsey and gives her "magic bath" where Tituba used "properties of amniotic fluid to purify herself of the murder of her child" [page 63]. Until one day Priest Samuel Parris questioned the girls health and tells her I'll have you confess what you did to my children and I'll have you hanged by the neck. What a magnificent fruit swinging from the trees of Massachussetts."[page 75] One suffering experience, is that Tituba is being accused and threatened by Priest Samuel Parris of having performed witch craft on Betsey. The priest tells Tituba, " if it's proven I shall have you hung!" Tituba misses her husband dearly, John Indian. He has been working endless hours and comes home while she's asleep as oppose to when she lived in Barbados she spent sufficient time with her husband. In my opinion the move has been for the worst because now Tituba is going to understand the sufferance that Mama Yaya warned her about.
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ReplyDeleteTituba discovers completely new experience when she moves from Barbados to Boston. Her journey continued, she developed a friendship with Parris trusting wife Elizabeth and her daughter Betsey. She felt more than a slave when she was around them. For the first time she was able to express her self openly and share her stories with people she trusted. But, still the love for her country became deeper as time passed (pg48) she quotes"Love for our country we carry in us like our blood and vital organs". Her real challenge became when she discovered about her pregnancy." Their is no happiness in motherhood for a slave."she states.Aborting her child in Boston was not going to be easy due to her lack of herbs. However, she does find a way to miscarry her child using local plants. The poem in ( ch.8 pg55) describes the loss of her child.
Salem is a small village and has a very bad reputation. The house didn't feel hospitable to her.The town was small, spiritually isolated and morally corrupt. As time passed Tituba's life was falling apart. She is faced with such a white Christian power, corruption and hypocrisy. Her only two friends Betsey and Elizabeth turned on her accusing Tituba for performing witchcraft on them. Definitely the worse place to live in. Such accusation were going to destroy her life.
John Indian was different from her. He accepted freedom by obeying and pleasing the white community in every way they wished. One time he had said to her" You don't understand this white man's world we live in. You make expectation" Clearly you can see his vision was different than Tituba .The village of Salem was going to be the worse place for them to live in. This town full of evil and corruption was slowly tearing them apart.
Lynching as had a devastating impact on Tituba because seeing anyone get lynched is a constant remainder of her mother's Abena death by lynching. Tituba wants to scream out her suffering, her revolt and her powerless rage.(Condé 49)The people of Salem see no problem with lynching because they feel if a women is a witch, she deserves to get lynched.
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ReplyDeleteTituba's experiences are mostly influenced by men and, her behavior has changed due to a man. In the text (ch3. pg 24) "John Indian joined my hand forcibly together and i repeated after him: I belive in God, the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and Earth... But those words ment nothing to me they had nothing in commen with what Mama Yaya had taught me" So because of this man she has changed her beliefs and, willing to ingnore what she was taught by Mama Yaya to please a man.
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ReplyDeleteFrom Tituba having a cruel past before meeting John Indie influences her as a women to want to be loved and care for, Tituba discusses this on pages (conde 14-15. Also, Tituba felt as a wife it is her duty to stand by her husband eventhough she is a free slave during bad unexceptable moment with him and his mistress Susanna Endicott. Moreover, Some people treated Tituba as a witch and some didnt, However, people in Salem expected her to do more evil than heal people. For example goodwife Priscilla "Everyone knows you have magical skills.Help me to get rid of her" (conde68), and goodwife Rebecca Nurse "Tituba, can you punish them?" (Conde69) both ladies wanted Tituba to commit an evil act for them.
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ReplyDeleteTituba's geographic location in Salem impacted her because she has become something she wasnt use to . She wasnt felling like herself . The move to Salem was a negative move for her. She couldn't make love with John Indian as she wanted to because it wasn't aloud under Samuel Parris's roof. She had to become a Christian , which she wasn't use to. (conde 41). She couldnt practice her spiritual ritual because in Boston it didnt have none of the plants that were in Barbados. So, she had to subtitute with what she had in Boston to take care of Samuels Parris' wife Elizabeth sickness.(conde 45). She got pregnant and had to abort the baby because she didnt want her child to suffer in this old world and she didnt want to struggle as a mother. Living with John Indian was even worse because he wasn't being the man he suppose to be, Like standing up for her and protecting her.
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ReplyDeleteThe move to Salem was supposed to be a cause for celebration but according to Tituba she did not know “how fleeting it would be"(59). When Tituba moved to Salem, the first thing she realized was that the house that her slave master and family moved into a house where two women ha previously died in. Tituba believed that the dead who were not laid to rest could bring trouble (58)• Tituba felt that she would have to conduct a ceremony to help the souls rest in peace. She then made a self-prophesizing claim that this place would bring her "terrible trials...excruciating pain and turn her hair white''(58).it was quite possible that she felt that she ( a healer and a person who could see things) might not necessarily bode well with individuals within the community. The kitchen she cooked in was always filled with little girls who gave feelings as if something was a bit off with them with there constant questions about witches(61).In her conversation with Betsy she tells the little girl "Tituba know the word that cure every sickness, heal every wound and untie every knot."(61).Tituba was very affectionate about Betsy and gave her a healing bath to the sickly girl who got better. However certain individuals in the community such as Susanna Endicott told Tituba "she w a s convinced that Tituba skin color was associated with Satan".For every thing that went wrong in the community or beyond their comprehension she was accused of it. Everyone began accusing her if being a witch, Betsy the little girl who she loved began acting out convulsions with Abigail, resulting in sawmill parris hitting her, even her husband who she felt would be by her side began to feel convinced she was a witch (75).It would seem the great tribulations that Tituba felt she was undergo are here so she was tried and jailed for being a witch.
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ReplyDeleteTituba’s reaction to Salem was not a positive one. She became mournful, scared and nostalgic. She says, “ As soon as I entered Salem, I knew I would not be happy there. I felt I would undergo terrible trials… How strange it is , this love of our own country. We only need to be separated from our native land to feel a pain that never loses its grip (Conde, 48).” Here I can feel Tituba’s sadness and need for her country as well as her fear of her new homeland.
ReplyDeleteSalem is a worse place for Tituba to live because she is in fear of her life. In Salem, she witnessed a woman’s murder after being accused of being a witch. She too was accused of being a witch. Samuel Parris says, “ I do not accuse you without evidence, but if tomorrow Dr. Griggs sees the influence of Satan, I’ll have you hanged by the neck (Conde 75).” Here Mr. Parris threatens to take Tituba’s life if she is found guilty of being a witch.
John Indian does not serve as a shield for Tituba. He does not hold the power to protect her from Samuel Parris. He basically abandons Tituba. Tituba says,
“ I burst into tears. John Indian had no words of consolation. He said in a rough voice: Remember, you’re Abena’s daughter (Conde 75).” Tituba feels alone and on her own. The love and affection she used to get from John Indian has fade away. She now realizes she’s her only support and source of protection.
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ReplyDeleteTituba did not sucessfully integrate into the community. pg.68-69 Sarah asked to cast a spell on her master and on pg69 Rebecca asked her to cast a spell on her neighors because their hog kept on eating her crops. Pg60 Tituba told the children stories and was able to get them to laugh. Later they begin asking her if she was a witch and she told me to get out of her kitchen
Group 2: Tituba's move to Salem impacted her in many ways. For instance, it gave Tituba a relationship with Samuel Parris's wife Elizabeth. The first sight of this friendship occurred when Elizabeth Parris stood up for Tituba, when she refused to confess her "sins." "He struck me. His dry knifelike hand struck my mouth a At the sight of this red tickle Goodwife Parris regained her strength, sat up, and said in a rage: Samuel, you have no right..." He struck her in turn. She too bled. This blood sealed our alliance." (conde 41). Tituba also took care of Elizabeth when she was sick. "Up till then I had not called on the supernatural to care for Elizabeth Parris. I had merely kept her warm and had her swallow scalding hot drinks..That night I decided to use my powers. And yet I was lacking certain items required for practicing my art... Three days later she gave me a smile as feeble as the sun through the gable window. Thank you Tituba! You saved my life!" (conde 45). The Move to Salem also gave Tituba a friendship with Samuel Parris's daughter Betsey. The first sight of this friendship was when Tituba gave her a magic bath after she received a beating from Samuel Parris. "I made her swear not to tell anyone and at dusk I plunged her up to her neck in a liquid to which I had given all the properties of amniotic fluid. After that, I wrapped her scarlet body in a large blanket and took her back to bed." (conde 63) The move to Parris also impacted Tituba in the sense that when she realized she was pregnant she decided to kill the child because she didn't want her child to suffer as a slave as she has suffered.She wanted to give her baby freedom. "There is no happiness in motherhood as a slave. It is little more than the expulsion of an innocent baby, who will have no chance to change its fate." (conde 50)
ReplyDeleteGroup 1: Tituba's experiences are influenced by gender a lot. To an extent where she would even give up her believes and freedom just to be with a man. This is shown on page 36 and 25. "No Susanna Endicott! I could retort. I may be John Indian's woman, but you haven't bought me... So you cant sell me and the gentleman from Boston will not lay hands on my treasures. Yes, but if I said that, I would be separated from John Indian..." (Page 36). I believe in God, the father almighty, maker of Heaven and Earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only son, our lord... I shook my head frantically. John Indian, I can't say repeat that... What matter most is that we are together in this big bed... John Indian joined my hands forcibly together and I repeated after him..." (Page 25).
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ReplyDeleteTituba feels lost in this "new world" because it is foreign to her, she has to learn to improvise to continue healing people in salem. She is treated much more harshly by Samuel Parris, the upside is that she briefly gains the trust and friendship of Elizabeth and Betsy Parris. It is really hard to say whether she would have been better off in Barbados when you consider how the story ends. However she suffers immensely during her time across the water just as Mama YaYa predicted. "You will suffer, during your life. A lot. A lot." (conde,9). Suffer she does. She her human rights are violated more and more often. as far as living with John Indian goes she is definitely much worse off. He is greatly influenced by the accusers and abandons his wife who gave up her freedom for him, to "survive" ( see page 108). So now she has been imprisoned, violated, and abandoned. even though there are small rays of happiness for her in Salem, it can not compare to the happiness and ignorant secluded bliss that she experienced during her time in barbados as a teenager and young adult.
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ReplyDeleteThe geographic location impact titubas experiences in a few ways . She wasn't able to practice her rituals and use the remedies that help her conjure up her "majic" . When it was time to help bring Elizabeth Paris back to good health tituba had to substitute with whatever she needed . (Page 45) Salem isn't the best place for tituba she isn't able to live and love the way she wants to because of the strict ways of the salem community . Tituba was better off in Barbados where she could have been free by now and able to bare a child that she wouldn't have wanted to get rid of she would have been at ease with her life but now she was in Salem the place where any Who believed in the supernatural , majic or witchcraft wouldn't survive. In many accounts tituba has been asked to do evil on to people (page 68 & 69) both Goodwife Rebecca nurse and Sarah Have asked tituba But tituba will not allow herself to be pulled in and do this evil they ask of her . With everyone in Salem believing that she has magical skills and is a witch she won't be able to survive for long with John Indian by her side or not the people of Salem will not tolerate a "witch" in there presence
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ReplyDeleteGeographic location impacted Tituba's experiences in different ways. One way was that she could no longer verbally communicate with Abena and Mama Yaya for advice or comfort. This is displayed when Tituba says, "Faced with the serious dangers that were threatening me, I needed closer communication. With words."(Conde,84) She also doesn't have access to the same items that are in Barbados for healing Elizabeth Parris. Tituba conveys this when she says, "That night I decided to use my powers. And yet I was lacking certain items required to practice my art."(Conde,45) She was completely out of her element.
Salem proves to be a worse place for Tituba to live because it is changing the person she was. She was unhappy and longed for revenge. An example of this was when she said, "Yes, I was becoming another woman. A stranger to myself."(Conde,66) Another example was when she said, "In my helplessness and despair I started to think about revenge."(Conde,66)
Salem was also straining the relationship between Tituba and John Indian. This was evident when "Samuel Parris hired John Indian out to Deacon Ingersoll to help with the field work. John Indian, therefore, only came home to sleep with me on Saturdays."(Conde,66) Furthermore, "he was so exhausted from having labored like a beast that despite his robust physique that up till then had satisfied my desires, he fell asleep almost as soon as his head touched my breast."(Conde,66) Tituba was also starting to let herself go and this was unattractive to John Indian. He would complain, "Now the tall grass of your pubis and the tufts of your armpits, almost disgust me."
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ReplyDeleteTituba’s perception of gender difference began in conception. The traumatic emotions her mother Abena ,experienced while being raped by an English white sailor aboard the ‘Christ the King’ slave trade ship, which resulted in Tituba’s birth, was the awakening moment in her soul before she came to know herself. In other words, when Tituba’s says, “I was born from this act of aggression; from this act of hatred and contempt” (Conde’, 1). Tituba could already feel the burdens of dominance that caused an imbalance between genders, and awaiting her life.
However, as a young child she experienced a loving, caring and attentive father in Yao, he taught her that women should and could be treated with a gentle and loving hand, yet within that same instance she witnessed her mother’s hanging for defending herself against that same male dominance that she was conceived in.
These experiences created in Tituba a reverence for a loving man or loving a man, as well as boundaries for their weakness, dominance and possessive mistreatment. Despite forewarnings from her mother Abena and her surrogate mother teacher, Mama Yaya, Tituba becomes reluctantly involved with a man she perceived as weak initially. Yet, her lust for him blinded her from the self-degrading things he encouraged her to do, in order to survive in the world she chose to live in for him. Therefore, when Tituba says, “I desired his love as I had never desired any other, not even my mother’s” (Conde’, 18). She is exclaiming that she is ready and willing to bear any burden to be with him, even if it meant losing the innermost part of her.
Not until her mother’s hanging and Yao being sold away to another slave master, had Tituba experienced any backlashes of slavery; therefore, when her love for John Indian forces her to live in this new, yet familiar, uncivilized world, she realizes that it requires expected and traditional societal placement.in other words, not only did she adhere to John Indians' traditional expectations, she also had to adhere to the merciless rules and regulations of the European slave trade.
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ReplyDeleteWhen Tituba first arrives in Salem, she is scared and worried. She knew right away that she would have a difficult time (Conde 58-59). Tituba never really integrates into the society if Salem. They think she s of an evil nature just because of the color of skin (Conde 65). Tituba shared her knowledge of healing to show that what she does, what her intentions are, they are not foe evil purposes (Conde 68-69). When Tituba repeatedly refused to be who they wanted her to be, the children of Salem devised a plan to hurt her (Conde 74-75). Thus, begins the antagonistic relationship between the residents f Salem and Tituba. As well, she begins to feel like she is changing, becoming someone she doesn't recognize (Conde 66).
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ReplyDeletegeographic location really impact tituba in a horrible way for example when she went to boston and Good-wife parris got sick and she couldn't find the right herbs and using her intelligence she substituted (Conde 45). also when she found out she was pregnant and wanted to kill the baby it was difficult to find everything she needed "In Barbados, where i know every plant by heart, i would have had no difficulty getting rid of an unwanted fruit" (conde 50). Salem wasn't great for her, she knew she wouldn't be happy here (conde 58)
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ReplyDeleteGROUP 1: To what extent are Tituba's experiences influenced by gender? Is there a discernable difference between the way Tituba is treated and/or expected to behave and the expectations for men?
ReplyDeleteTituba's entire life was influenced by gender. To such an extent that it caused her to live out her life in misery and her hardships were perpetual. For starters, Tituba's love for men was her greatest downfall and has, more often than not, led her astray and landed her into a heap of trouble. The trouble all began with John Indian, she did not know why she wanted him, but all that mattered was that she did and she would do whatever necessary to get him. And keep him. She was very much aware of how comfortable and free she was living in her cabin near the River Ormond, yet she wanted to give it all up just to be with John Indian, a man. She gives up her freedom, though it was to a lesser degree in comparison to when she lived alone, yet again to be with this man when she has to leave for Boston. Tituba also strikes Susanna Endicott with a sickness that winds up killing her, she has perverted her heart...becoming one of them, knowing only how to kill and destroy (Conde, 30). When Tituba return home to Barbados she get herself involved with Christopher for whatever reason which allows him to belittle her, she then has to leave a safe haven. Involving herself with Iphigene eventlly get her killed. Other men such as Benjamin Cohen d'Azevedo, Samuel Parris and Yao have all shaped the experiences in Tituba's life. Also the simple fact that Tituba was a woman made things all the more difficult for her. There is definitely a discernable difference between the way Tituba is treated and the expectations for men, everyone in the book including Hester, Mama Yaya and Abena see it. If Tituba did not love men to the extent that she did she would have saved herself a lot of grief, shame and humiliation.