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Learn about the characters in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible with Course Hero's video study guide.
| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| John Proctor | John Proctor is a well-respected Salem farmer considered a pillar of the community. Read More |
| Elizabeth Proctor | Elizabeth Proctor is the devoted wife of John Proctor and the mother of their three boys. Read More |
| Reverend Parris | Reverend Parris is a Salem minister and the instigator of the witch hunt. Read More |
| Abigail Williams | Abigail Williams is John Proctor's partner in adultery. Read More |
| Reverend Hale | Reverend Hale is a witchcraft expert, who comes to Salem to investigate the rumors of sorcery. Read More |
| Giles Corey | Giles Corey is an octogenarian farmer who offers a motivation for the witchcraft accusations. Read More |
| Rebecca Nurse | Rebecca Nurse is a highly respected and pious Christian woman. Read More |
| Goody Ballard | Goody Ballard is an accused woman who confessed to being a witch. |
| Alice Barrow | Alice Barrow is a woman Betty Parris accuses of witchcraft. |
| Martha Bellows | Martha Bellows is a woman Betty Parris accuses of witchcraft. |
| Goody Bibber | Goody Bibber is a woman Betty Parris accuses of witchcraft. |
| Bridget Bishop | Bridget Bishop is a tavern owner Abigail Williams accuses of witchcraft. |
| Goody Booth | Goody Booth is a woman Abigail Williams accuses of witchcraft. |
| Ezekiel Cheever | Ezekiel Cheever is a court clerk who delivers the arrest warrants to the accused. |
| Martha Corey | Martha Corey, Giles's wife, is accused of witchcraft after her husband wonders why she loves to read so much. |
| Deputy Governor Danforth | Deputy Governor Danforth is the head judge at the witch trials. |
| Sarah Good | Sarah Good is a woman Tituba and Abigail Williams accuse of witchcraft. |
| Isaiah Goodkind | Isaiah Goodkind confesses to witchcraft and is hanged. |
| Doctor Griggs | Doctor Griggs can find no medical cause for Betty Parris's stupor and suggests supernatural causes. |
| Judge Hathorne | Judge Hathorne is a harsh jurist who shows no mercy to the accused and accepts only his opinions. |
| Goody Hawkins | Goody Hawkins is a woman Abigail Williams accuses of witchcraft. |
| Marshal Herrick | Marshal Herrick is a court official who serves the arrest warrants to the accused townspeople. |
| Guard Hopkins | Guard Hopkins is a sentry at the town prison. |
| Goody Howe | Goody Howe is a woman Betty Parris accuses of witchcraft. |
| George Jacobs | George Jacobs is a man Betty Parris accuses of witchcraft. |
| Mercy Lewis | Mercy Lewis is the Putnams' servant and one of Abigail Williams's friends and supporters. |
| Francis Nurse | Francis Nurse, Rebecca's husband, is a highly respected man in Salem who fights for his wife's innocence. |
| Samuel Nurse | Samuel is the son of Francis and Rebecca Nurse. He cares for the three Proctor boys while their parents are in jail. |
| Goody Osburn | Goody Osburn is a woman Abigail Williams accuses of witchcraft. |
| Betty Parris | Betty Parris, Reverend Parris's daughter, is comatose after being caught dancing in the woods. |
| Thomas Putnam | Thomas Putnam fuels the people's fear of witchcraft so he can confiscate the land of the men hanged for doing the Devil's work. |
| Ann Putnam | Ann Putnam, Thomas's wife, is bitter over the deaths of seven children who died in infancy. |
| Ruth Putnam | Ruth, Thomas and Ann Putnam's daughter, sleepwalks after being caught dancing in the woods. |
| Judge Sewall | Judge Sewall is one of the jurists at the Salem witch trials. |
| Goody Sibber | Goody Sibber is a woman Abigail Williams accuses of witchcraft. |
| Judge Stoughton | Judge Stoughton is one of the jurists at the Salem witch trials. |
| Tituba | Tituba is Reverend Parris's black slave from Barbados who confesses to practicing witchcraft. |
| Susanna Walcott | Susanna Walcott is Doctor Griggs's messenger. |
| Isaac Ward | Isaac Ward is a man said to have chosen drinking over taking care of his family. He is hanged for practicing witchcraft. |
| Mary Warren | Mary Warren is the Proctors' servant who breaks away from the girls and tells the judges their playacting is fraudulent. |
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