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Reverend Hale comes to Salem on Reverend Parris request to investigate supernatural causes for Betty Parris suspicious illness and investigates the rumors of witchcraft. Hale soon grows disillusioned with the witchcraft accusasions that bound and defends Proctor when he challenges Abigail. Hale does this out of guilt, for his fears that he may have caused the execution of innocent people.

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The youn teenager daughter of Reverend Parris, Betty falls mysteriously ill after Reverend Parris finds her dancing in the woods with Abigail and the other young women of Salem. She goes into hysterics when the charges of witchcraft firts form, holding delusions that she can fly and exclaiming with horror when she hears the name of Jesus.

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The eighteen year- old servant in the Proctor household, Mary is one of the girls found dancing in the woods and is complicit in Abigail William's schemes. Although weak and tentative, she challenges the Proctors when they forbid her go to court. However, Mary eventually breaks down and testifies against Abigail until Abigail charges her with witchery. She is a pliable girl whose actions are easily determined by others.

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Wife of John Proctor, Elizabeth shares with John a similarly strict adherence to justice and moral principles. She is a women who has great confidence in her own morality and the ability of a person to maintain a sense of righteousness. Elizabeth can be cold and a demanding women, whose chilly demeanor may have driven her husband to adultery and whose continual suspicions of her husband render their marriage tense.

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Parris slave from Barbados, Tituba was with the girls when they danced and attemted to conjure the spirits of Ann Putnam´s dead children. She is the firts person accused of witchcraft and likewise the firts person to accuse others of witchery.

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A weak, paranoid and suspicious demagogue, Parris instigates the wichraft panic when he finds his daughter and niece dancing in the woods with several other girls. Parris knows the truth that Abigail is lying about the dancing and the witchcraft , but perpetuates the deception because it is in his own self interest. Parris fears any defense against the charges of witchcraft as an attack upon the court and personal attack on him.

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A seventeen year-old girl who is the niece of Reverend Parris, Abigail was the Proctor´s servant before Elizabeth fired her for having an affair with John. She is a malicious, vengeful girl who, in an attempt to protect herself from punishment after Reverend Parris finds them dancing, instigates the Salem witch trials and leads the charge of accusations. Despite her accusations, Abigail is an unabashed liar who charges witchcraft against those who oppose her, even Elizabeth Proctor in an attempt to take her place as Proctor´s wife.

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Proctor serves as the voice of reason and justice in The Crucible. Proctor is a sharply intelligent man who can easily detect foolishness in others and expose it, but he questions his own moral sense. Because of his affair with Abigail Williams, Proctor questions wether or not he is a moral man, yet this past event is the only major flaw attributed to Proctor, who is in all other respects honorable and ethical.