Betty+Parris+Sketch

By: Samantha Garrison **
 * Elizabeth ​( Betty) Parris Character Sketch

Betty falls sick after the girls are caught dancing in the forest and conjuring spirits. Though her sickness is fake, it creates the thought of witchcraft and creates doors for the future accused.



At nine years old, Elizabeth (Betty) Parris, daughter of minister Rev. Samuel Parris, played a very inmportant role in the beginning of the witchcraft trials. Curious to know her future marital status, Elizabeth (betty), got together with her cousin Abigail cautiously experimented with fortune telling. Her behavior led to the first three accusations of witches. Trying to shield the involvement of his immediate family, Rev. Samuel Parris, took Abigail from home and placed her in the home of Stephen Sewall in Salem, where she eventually recovered. Elizabeth (betty) could not have predicted that these innocent attempts at predicting the future would lead to the largest and most deadly witch-hunt in American history. 

**Betty Parris**: I want my mama. [//Abby slaps Betty//] [//Abby throws Betty on the bed and starts hitting her//] 
 * Abigail Williams**: Your mama's dead and buried.
 * Betty**: I'll find her! Let me fly! Mama! No!
 * Abigail**: Why are you doing this? I told you, he knows now.
 * Betty**: You drank blood Abby. Did you tell him that?
 * Abigail**: Don't you ever say that again!
 * Betty**: You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!


 * Betty's motivation in this play is to get attenetion, from everyone. **

Out of all the Deadly Sins i would think Betty Parris is Sloth. I Believe she is that because she does nothing the first act and she blames her "illness" on withcraft. 



After the Salem witch trials it is said that Betty Parris, married and had five children, one of whom died insane.