The Crucible Review

She is brought to Salem from Barbados, where she learned occult practices. She presides at a conjuring session involving teenage and adolescent girls from Salem.

• Tituba

• Abigail

• Mary Warren

• Sarah Good

At the beginning of the play, she lies in a stupor supposedly caused by witchcraft.

• Abigail Williams

• Mary Warren

• Susana Walcott

• Betty Parris

She comes to realize that she may have been partly at fault for her husband's unfaithfulness because she was not always as warm and loving as she could have been.

• Abigail Williams

• Betty Parris

• Elizabeth Proctor

• Rebecca Nurse

She first agrees to testify against Abigail and the others, but under pressure from her peers and the court, she renounces her testimony and sides with Abigail.

• Mary Warren

• Betty Parris

• Rebecca Nurse

• Sarah Good

Honest farmer forced to defend his wife and himself against witchcraft charges.

• John Proctor

• Hathorne

• Danforth

• Giles Corey

She drinks the blood of a chicken in an attempt to summon spirits to kill Elizabeth Proctor. She is fired from the family she worked for due to having an affair with the husband.

• Mary Warren

• Abigail Williams

• Betty Parris

• Rebecca Nurse

Salem's current minister. At first, he is against the witch trials due to members of his family being involved, but he eventually is in favor of them after realizing they will work to his advantage.

• Hale

• Parris

• Danforth

• Hathorne

Presiding judge who conducts the witchcraft hearings and trials.

• Hale

• Parris

• Danforth

• Hathorne

Expert in detecting spirits. Well educated, he takes pride in his knowledge of the occult, but he is fair-minded.

• Hale

• Parris

• Hathorne

• Danforth

An innocent citizen accused of witchcraft after he attempts to defend his wife and expose John Putnam. He is pressed to death with heavy stones.

• John Proctor

• Parris

• Hale

• Giles Corey