John Proctor - Farmer, Elizabeth Proctor’s husband
Reverend John Hale - A young minister reputed to be an expert on witchcraft
Elizabeth Proctor - John Proctor’s wife
Reverend Parris - The minister of Salem’s church
Rebecca Nurse - Francis Nurse’s wife.
Francis Nurse - A wealthy, influential man in Salem
Judge Danforth- Carries out the witch trials.
Giles Corey - Farmer
Thomas Putnam - A wealthy Citizen.
Ann Putnam - Thomas Putnam’s wife.
Ruth Putnam -One of the Girls dancing.
Tituba - Abigail told her to perform voodoo.
Mary Warren - The servant for proctorsmember of Abigail’s group of girls.
Betty Parris - Parris’s ten-year-old daughter
Martha Cory- Cory' s 3rd wife, accused of Witchcraft.
Mercy Lewis - One of the girls in Abigail’s group
Relationships between Characters
Abigail- affaire with Proctor, leader of Witch group.
Tituba was Rev Hale's slave, first accused of witchery.
Abigail was once a slave for Proctors, but was fired by Elizabeth, affair.
Rev John Halel sets the hysteria in motion, although he later regrets his actions and attempts to save the lives of
those accused
Rebbeca Nurse- Putnams accuse her of witchcraft and she refuses
to confess.
Francis Nurse- enemy to the Putnams
Danforms thinks he is convinced that he is doing right in rooting out witchcraft.
Giles’s wife, Martha, is accused of witchcraft, and he himself is eventually held in contempt of court and
pressed to death with large stones.
Thomas Putman, makes money by accusing people of witchcraft and then buying up their land.
Betty falls into a strange stupor after Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the forest with Tituba.
Her illness and that of Ruth Putnam fuel the first rumors of witchcraft.
Girls in the Woods Dancing.
Abigail- Ring leader.
Tituba- performs voodoo.
Mercy Lewis
Mary Warren- tries to expose the girls.
Betty Parris - falls into Stupor.
Ruth Putman, Falls into Stupor
Those Accused.
Martha Corey- bad reading habits.
Giles Corey- Pressed to death
Rebecca Nurse- accused by Putmans
Key Facts!
John Hale , an expert on witchcraft, called to determine whether Betty is indeed bewitched
Parris berates his niece, Abigail Williams, because he discovered her, Betty, and several other girls dancing
in the forest in the middle of the night with , Tituba.
Abigail denies that she and the girls engaged in witchcraft. She states that Betty merely fainted from shock
when her father caught them dancing.
Mrs. Putnam reports that their own daughter, Ruth, is as listless as Betty, and she claims that someone saw
Betty flying over a neighbor’s barn.
Mrs. Putnam had seven babies that each died within a day of its birth. Convinced that someone used
witchcraft to murder them, she sent Ruth to Tituba to contact the spirits of her dead children in order to
discover the identity of the murderer
Betty sits up suddenly and cries for her mother, but her mother is dead and buried. Abigail tells the
girls that she has told Parris everything about their activities in the woods, but Betty cries that Abigail
did not tell Parris about drinking blood as a charm to kill Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor’s wife.
Abigail strikes Betty across the face and warns the other girls to confess only that they danced and
that Tituba conjured Ruth’s dead sisters. She threatens to kill them if they breathe a word about the
other things that they did