Tituba monologue from The Crucible

Tituba’s monologue

Tituba (a slave from Barbados, trying to save her life after being accused of working with Satan)

Bless Him. Bless Him. Eternal glory. Bless Him - bless God... Oh, bless the Lord. Was - was woman. It was black dark, and...Well, they was always talking; they was always runnin’ round and carryin’ on. I believe so, yes, sir. Oh, God bless you, Mr. Hale! Oh, God, protect Tituba! There was four. There was four. Oh, how many times he bid me kill you, Mr. Parris. He say, Mr. Parris must be kill! Mr. Parris no goodly man, Mr. Parris mean man and no gentle man, and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat! But I tell him know. I don’t hate that man. I don’t want kill that man. But he say, you work for me, Tituba, and I make you free! I give you pretty dress to wear, and put you way high up in the air, and you gone fly back to Barbados! And I say, you lie, Devil, you lie! And then he come one stormy night to me, and he say, Look! I have white people belong to me. And I look - and there was Goody Good.

Excerpt for study and audition practice. Read the full play for context.