The Crucible Sarah's Character

Throughout the novel, Sarah speaks for the miserable life of black slaves, and we could learn that Sarah is a character used in the novel to emphasize the theme of power and race. When we look at the page 75, Sarah seems to be at fairly high position among the slaves, but her unconditional compliance clearly exposes the helplessness of the weak’s under great power. She says, “Sold them. First my man died. Then Marse Tom took my children, all but Carrie. And, bless God, Carrie ain’t worth much as the others’ cause she can’t talk” (76). Sarah speaks about lost of her family as a usual thing in a quite tone without any emotion. Instead of Sarah herself, Dana describes Sarah’s emotion as “Quiet, almost frightening anger” (76), and readers could