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Sarah Good: an old beggar woman of Salem accused of witchcraft
Hopkins: a prison guard
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Act Four is set in a cell at the Salem jail the following fall. Sarah Good lies sleeping on one bench, and Tituba on another. Marshal Herrick enters and wakes them, ordering them to move to another cell. Both women carry on about how the devil is coming to fly with them to Barbados.
Deputy Governor Danforth and Judge Hathorne enter, followed by Cheever. From their talk it is apparent that there will be...
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