crucible characters

rev. samuel parris

• mid-forties

• history regards him as a villain

• believes he was persecuted wherever he went

• a widower w/ no talent w/ children

betty parris

rev. parris’ ten year old daugher

tituba

rev. parris’ black slave he brought back with him from barbados when he was a merchant there

abigail williams

• rev. parris’ niece

• seventeen

• strikingly beautiful girl

susanna walcott

• a little younger than abby

• nervous and hurried

mrs. ann putnam

• a twisted soul of of forty-five

• a death-ridden woman

• haunted by dreams

thomas putnam

• a well-to-do hard-handed landowner

• near fifty

• his choice of minister (rev. bayley) was turned down

• a vindictive man

mercy lewis

• the putnam’s servant

• a fat, sly, merciless girl

• eighteen

mary warren

• seventeen

• a subservient, naive, lonely girl

• john proctor’s servant

john proctor

• in his mid-thirties

• a powerful man in body and mind

• respected and feared in salem

rebecca nurse

• seventy-two

• has white hair and uses a walking stick

• well respected in salem

giles corey

• eighty-three

• knotted w/ muscle

• canny and inquisitive

• is still powerful

• a crank or nuisance

marthy corey

gile’s wife

francis nurse

• husband to rebecca

• respected and unofficial judge

• the nurses were part of the faction to oppose rev. bayley

rev. john hale of beverly

• near forty

• tight-skinnied, eager-eyed intellectual

• called to ascertain witchcraft

elizabeth proctor

• married to john

• has been ill following the birth of her third child

  • four years after his death she is remarried

marshal herrick

a man in his early thirties working for the judges

ezekiel cheever

like marshal sent to arrest people working for the judges

judge hathorne

the presiding judge for the trial

deputy governor danforth

• a grave man in his sixties

• a man of humor and sophistication

sarah good

a homeless woman that lives in the ditches

hopkins

a character in jail in act four