-local farmer outside of town, elisabeth proctors gusband
-stern man, hates hypocrisy
-had affair eith abaigial williams tjat leads to his downfall
-with hysterteria hesittates ti expose abagial as a fraud because worried secreat will be revealed and good name ruined
-revered parris neice
-abagial wad serbrnt for proctor household but elizabeth proctor fired agter she discovefed the affair with her husband
-abagail is smart good liar wily anf vinfidictive when crossed
-minister reputed to be an expert on witchcraft
-called in salem to examine parris daughter betty
-hale is commited crhistian and hater of witchfraft, his mind and intellegnece save him from falling into blind fervor
-his arrival setd the hysteria although he later regrets his actuons and atyempts to save the lives of those accuses
-john proctors wife
-elizabeth fired abaigial when she discovered her husband was having affair with abavigal
-elizabeth is supremely virtuous but often cold
-minister of salem chruch
-powerhungry, paranoid, oddly self pitying
-many, espcually john proctor dislike him and parriss is concerved building his position in the community
-francis nurses wife
-wise, sensible and upright, held in tremendous regard by most salem community
-she falls victim to the hysteria when the putmans accuse her of witchcraft anf she refused to confess
-a weathy influential man in salem.
-nurse is well respected by most people in salem but an enemy of thomas putman and his wife
-deputy govenor of massachusetts and the presiding judge at the witch trails
-honest and scrupulous at least in his own mind, dangorurh is convinced that he is doing right in rooting out witchcraft
-an elderly but feisty farmer in salem
-famous for tendancy to file lawsuits
-giles wife martha is accused of witchcraft and he himself is eventually held in con-tempt of court and pressed to death with large stones
-a weathly inlfluential citizen of salem, -putman holds a grudge agaisnt francis nurse for precenting putmans brother in law from being elected to the office minister.
-he used the witch trials to increase his own wealth by accusing people of witchcraft and buting up their land.
-thomas putmans wife
-ann has given birth to 8 children but only ruth survived
-the other seven died before they were a day okd
-ann is convinced they were murdered by supernatural means
the putmans lone surviving child out of eight
-like betty parris ruth falls into a strange stupir after reverend pariss catches her and other girls dancing in the woods at night
-reverend parriss black slave from barbados
-tituba agrees to perform voodoo at abagails request
-the servent of john proctors household and a member of abagails group of girls
-she is a timid girl, easily influenced by those around her
-reverend parriss ten year old daughter
-betty falls into a strnage stupur after partis catches her and the other girls dancing in the forest with tituba
-her illness and thay of ruth puan fuel the first rumours of witchcraft
-giles coreys third wife
-martha reading habits lead to her artest and conviction for witchfraft
-a man from salem who acts as clerk of the court during the witch trials
-his is upright and determined to do his duty for justice
-a judge who presides, along woth danforut over the witch trials
the marshal of salem
the servant in thomas putmand househokd
mercy belongs to abigails group of girls
a system of christian or other religious beleifs, a faith
a thing predicted, a forecast
relating to a church parish
a fortress typically on highground, protecting or dominating a city
a system of grovermeny by one person with absolute power
a system of ideas espicially one which forms basis of othet economic or politcal theory a policy
a military or policyal group that riles a country after taking power by force
certificate of ownership
a small organized dissenting group with a latger one, espically in polticia