Tituba is a black slave woman, which automatically contrasts her to everyone else in the play, as Salem is filled with white FREE Puritans. She is an important character in the first act, when the girls are seen dancing naked in the forest with her. She’s immediately associated with witchcraft (and essentially evil) because of her actions and her heritage (being from Barbados). Tituba is seen again in the fourth act, almost belligerent, shouting to Sarah Good how they’re going to Barbados to hang out with the Devil. She also offers to speak to the devil for the marshal. There is polarity between Tituba and Parris. Parris serves as a intercessor for God while Tituba is the devil’s advocate (literally). Again, Tituba is enslaved, black, and uneducated; Parris is free, white, and a leader of the town.
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