The Crucible characters
Parris is very little, miserable and even wormy character. If Abigail is a magnetic, Saruman-like villain, Parris is more like Wormtongue. There is nothing we like about this personage. Parris is avaricious. John Proctor accuses Parris of this several times in the play. The Reverend gives not...
Abigail is revengeful, selfish, manipulative, and at the same time – magnificent liar. This young lady is uniquely gifted at spreading death and destruction wherever she goes. She has an awesome sense of how to manipulate others and gain control over them. All these things add up to make her...
This is our hero, protagonist, the main character of the text. He isn’t a good person at all. He cheats on his wife; he can't remember the main ten testaments (but he continues going to the church every Sunday). Also, he is the biggest stubborn person that you have ever seen being angry...
Elizabeth is good, moral, loyal, also upright and composed. Among this, she is a very cold woman. Maybe it sounds strange, but her good sides are also her bad ones. She is a very shiny woman who is steady and true—but these traits also make her a bit cold. When we first meet her, she's...
Giles Corey is a strong old man who has recently converted to Christianity. He's likeable but is not too bright. His biggest bumble in the play is when he brings up the fact that his wife reads strange books. To Giles, any book is strange, and the idea of a woman wanting to read...
We don’t get a lot of information about this character, as well as he doesn’t have a lot of pages inside the book. The only thing we can tell about him, that he is a good man and an excellent husband who dares to stand up to the court and say that the judge and governor have been...
He likes to think of himself as a very fair, good and kind person. He was truly shocked to comprehend that people in the city are afraid of the court and the system. He believes that no innocent person should fear the court and that he and Judge Hathorne are blessed people guided by God, and...
Hale starts out with a vendetta against witches and ends up a broken, cynical man. Hale wins five stars for being the most complex character in the book, if not counting John Proctor here. He starts with the book being good and having only good intentions—even if he has a bit of a chip on...
Thomas Putnam is a greedy man who urges Reverend Parris to be strong and face up to the witchcraft inside. He uses his daughter to accuse people whose property he groans. Miller and most historians believed that many of the accusations of witchcraft were based on these sorts of greedy and selfish...