a slave from Barbados
conjures spirits with girls in the woods
accuses Sarah Good
servant to Rev Parris
Tituba
Reverend Parris' orpaned niece
hates Elizabeth Proctor ; mistress of John Proctor
leads "crying out" during the trial
drank blood to kill E Proctor
leader of girls in the woods
Abigail Williams
the Proctors' current servant girl
one of the girls in the woods
accuses John Proctor
Mary Warren
Ruth's mother
lost seven children
accuses Rebecca Nurse of Murder
Ann Putnam
the Putnam's servant girl
involved in the accusation of witches
was naked in the forest
when Abigail flees town it is believed that she goes with
Mercy Lewis
screams upon hearing the Lord's name
gravely ill after night in the forest
daughter of Rev Parris
Betty Parris
a seventy-two year old woman
thinks the girls are going through their "silly season"
well-respected wife of landowner Francis Nurse
Rebecca Nurse
the "sickly wife"
given doll with needle by Mary Warren
Elizabeth Proctor
MORE WEIGHT"
sues many villagers of Salem
his wife reads "strange books"
"a crank and a nuisance"
an eighty-three year old man
husband of women accused of witchcraft
Giles Corey
an expert on "demonic arts"
minister summoned to check for witchcraft
tries to save John Proctor
Rev Hale
vindictive, bitter villager who believes he has been wronged and cheated (thinks he owns more land than he does)
leading village voice against the witches
father of the seven children who died shortly after birth (needs someone to blame)
Thomas Putnam
a graduate of Harvard
preaches hellfire
minister in Salem
Rev Parris
doesn't attend church regulary
tells Abigail, "We never touched"
salem farmer
John Proctor
tells Rev. Parris that the doctor can find no medical cause for Betty's illness
was in the woods
Susanna Walcott
arbitrates disputes as though he were an unofficial judge
Francis Nurse
Judge who orders pressed to death to Giles Corey under questioning
Deputy Governor Danforth
I have put clothes on your back...Your name in the town - it is entirely white, is it not?
Rev Parris
Have you tried beatin' her? I gave Ruth a good one and it waked her for a minute.
Mercy Lewis
That's deep, Mr. Parris; deep, deep.
Giles Corey
I want to open myself! I'm a good girl! I'm a proper girl!
Abigail Williams
Can you speak one minute without we land in Hell again? I am sick of Hell!
John Proctor
Oh. God bless you Mr. Hale! Oh, God, protect Tituba!
Tituba
We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
Rev Hale
Oh, I marvel how such a strong man may let a sickly wife be...
Abigail Williams
You drank blood, Abby! You didn't tell them that! You drank a charm to kill Elizabeth Proctor!
Betty Parris
They want slaves, not such as I...
Abigail Williams
He say Mr. Parris must be kill! Mr. Parris no goodly man, Mr. Parris mean man...
Tituba
I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons...
Rebecca Nurse
In these books the Devil stands stripped of all of his brute disguises. I mean to crush him utterly.
Rev Hale
I love me Betty!...You beg me to conjure!
Tituba
We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption...
Rev Parris
I have seen you looking up, burning in your loneliness. Do you tell me you never looked up at my window?
Abigail Williams
I knew it! Goody Osborn was midwife to me three times...
Mrs. Putnam
Your grandfather had a habit of willing land that never belonged to him, if I may say it plain.
John Proctor
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still.
Rebecca Nurse
...but he knew I'd break his fingers before he'd sent his name to it.
Giles Corey
...crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom and common vengeance writes the law!
John Proctor
I cannot do it, I cannot.
Mary Warren
...Then nothing's left to stop the whole green world from burning.
Rev Hale
I never said my wife were a witch, Mr. Hale; I only said she were reading books!
Giles Corey
The girl is murder! She must be ripped out of the world!
Elizabeth Proctor
So many time before...she come to this very door, beggin' bread and a cup of cider...
Mary Warren
...we are only what we always we, but naked now.
John Proctor
Think on cause, man, and let you help me discover it. For there's your only way...when such confusion strikes upon the world.
Rev Hale
When the children wake, speak nothing of witchcraft - it will frighten them.
Elizabeth Proctor
'For the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam's babies.'
Francis Nurse
She wants me dead. I knew all week it would come to this.
Elizabeth Proctor
So will you hand me any poppets that your wife may keep here?
Cheever
...your justice would freeze beer.
John Proctor
She frighten all my strength away.
Elizabeth Proctor
Conjures me? Why no sir, I am entirely myself, I think.
Mary Warren
I gave them all my word no harm would come to them for signing this.
Francis Nurse
How do you call Heaven! ***
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John Proctor
I have been near to murdered everyday because I done my duty pointing out the Devil's people-and this is my reward?
Abigail Williams
Bring her out! And tell her not one word of what's been spoken here.
Danforth
She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave!
John Proctor
It were only sport in the beginning sir, but then the whole world cried spirits...
Mary Warren
I may shut my conscience to it no more-private vengeance is working through this testimony!
Reverend Hale
I denounce these proceedings!
Reverend Hale
This man is killing his neighbors for their land!
Giles Corey
A fart on Thomas Putnam is what I say to that!
Giles Corey
If I must answer that, I will leave and I will not come back again!
Abigail Williams
A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face!
John Proctor
Mr. Parris, you are a brainless man.
Danforth
I think that be the Devil's argument.
Elizabeth Proctor
There is no rebellion in Andover!
Danforth
He have goodness now. God forbid I take it from him.
Elizabeth Proctor
I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just...
Danforth
Come, man, there is light in the sky; the town waits at the scaffold...
Danforth
Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!
John Proctor
Suspicion kissed you when I did...It were a cold house I kept.
Elizabeth Proctor
More weight.
Giles Corey
And yet you've not confessed till now. That speak you goodness in you.
Elizabeth Proctor