Tituba Confesses and Names Names, Explained：turn your back on

What's really going on

The interrogation is built to produce a confession, and every line from Hale is pressure dressed as comfort. He tells Tituba she is "God's instrument put in our hands to discover the Devil's agents among us," then promises protection, then shows her the suffering child — "How can you bear to see this child suffering?" Her own account of the Devil is vivid and human: he promised her freedom, a pretty dress, and a flight back to Barbados, and she says she answered, "You lie, Devil, you lie!" But once Hale reframes confession as salvation rather than sin, she yields, and what she yields is names. Her first line, "I saw Sarah Good with the Devil!" is not evidence she gathered; it is the shape the room wanted, and the moment it is spoken the other girls begin chanting the same formula. The scene shows how an accusation becomes a script: one voice says it, and then the whole room can say it too.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Tituba's confession becomes a naming machine.
• Each 'I saw' line convicts another neighbor.
• The pure lamb compares the child to a victim.
• Irons appear once the talk turns into arrests.

発音のポイント

• tell us — Run tell us together as tel-lus.
• put you — The t and y in put you blend into pu-chu.
• can you — Link can you into can-ya without a pause.
• want to — In fast speech want to merges into wanna.