Character Analysis: Rev. Parris

Parris is a reverend from Salem he is an old man who lives with Tituba a black woman from the island of Barbados and also his daughter Betty and also Abigail a young girl obsessed with John proctor. He wants to have lots of control over the land he demonstrates this very often throughout the text for example when he is freaking out about his niece being a “witch” and how they will remove him from power if this is true. He is also very manipulate he demonstrates this when he forces his Abigail to tell him what happened in the forest. He is also very paranoid towards everyone in the village he shows this when they are in the court and john proctor says that there is no type of witchery and that Parris has known