EMERGENCY PLS HELP: Although Perris doesn't want the girls to confess to doing witchcraft in the woods he is pressured to question it. Parris is at the top. sort of a person the people of salem look up to. So, when Mrs.Putnam looks to him to Confess to betty being bewitched he is conflicted. If Parris were to keep denying the accusations could the witch trials be avoided? Or did he like people looking to him as being at the top of society?