- Reverend Parris: Father of Betty Parris, Overbearing, paranoid.
- Betty Parris: daughter of Betty Parris, ill, also miraculously recovers and blames multiple people of witch craft.
- Abigail: niece of Reverend Parris, infatuated with John Proctor, 18 year old, friends with Mercy and Mary, blames multiple people of witch craft.
- John Proctor: affair with Abigail, farmer, hates hypocrites, even tempered, "morally corrupt."
- Elizabeth Proctor: wife of John Proctor, has dislike for Abigail due to affair.
- Thomas Putnam: arrogant, condescending, embittered, bad blood with the Nurse Clan
- Ann Putnam: wife of Thomas Putnam, gave birth to eight children 7 of whom died (she blames supernatural powers).
- Giles Corey: eighty year old farmer who is blamed for most of the town's hardships, nuisance but an innocent and brave man.
- Martha Corey: wife of Giles Corey, reads mysterious books.
- Francis Nurse: bad blood with the Putnams, respected man among peers.
- Rebecca Nurse: wife of Francis Nurse, bad blood with the Putnams.
- Mercy: Putnam's servant, merciless, sly, fat, 18 years old, friends with Abigail and Mercy.
- Mary Warren: subservient, naive, lonely, friends with Mercy and Abigail.
- Tituba: slave of Reverend Parris, Barbados person, accused of associating with the devil, blames multiple people of witch craft.
- Reverend Hale: considered an expert of diagnosing and fighting witch craft, comes to the village to diagnose Betty, starts a witch hunt.
Quotes:
- "You are God's instument put in our hands to discover the Devil's agents among us, You are selected, Tituba, you are chosen to help us cleanse our village. So speak utterly, Tituba, turn your back on him and face God- face God, Tituba, and God will protect you" (page 46).
Explanation: This quote shows that all accusations of people being blamed of witch craft and association with the devil are not based on facts but are based on the testimony of bias and hateful people.
Question: Why would they trust a person accused of associating with the devil to point other people that associate with the devil?
2. Said with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit: "Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits...have no fear now- we shall find him out if he has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!" -Hale (page 39)
Explanation: This quote shows Hale's belief that that the problem is witch craft and that it will be solved with his intellectual wit. Also this quote suggests that there is a science to identify witches. Even though they pretty much use the testimony of two alleged witches that could have lied to identify the other witches.
Question: If he had all these books that could help identify witches why did he request the help of Tituba?
Explanation: This quote shows Hale's belief that that the problem is witch craft and that it will be solved with his intellectual wit. Also this quote suggests that there is a science to identify witches. Even though they pretty much use the testimony of two alleged witches that could have lied to identify the other witches.
Question: If he had all these books that could help identify witches why did he request the help of Tituba?
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