John Proctor is a very different person at the beginning of the play than he is at the end. At the beginning of the play, John is a very selfish person who does anything to protect his affair with Abigail, but towards the end is forced to find the courage i

Reverend John Hale is another person that changes in the play. At the beginning of the play, Hale shows up at Salem with huge books and witch hunting devices. Mr. Hale appears very smart and tells the people of Salem that he will find out if the devil is running rampant in their city. Hale relies on his books and faith in god to give him the power to hunt down the devil. " All the invisible world, caught defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Have no fear now we shall find him out if he has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!" Hale says. It seems that in the beginning of the book Mr. Hale is destined to find the devil in Salem, however, throughout the play, he becomes less and less involved in actually finding the devil. Mr. Hale slowly starts to observe the town’s people and comes to the realization that there is no devil in Salem and that it is in fact the girls. Towards the end of the play Mr. Hale tells John that he needs to sign the paper and confess to witchery in order to save his life. Mr. Hale pleads with John’s wife to convince him to sign the papers. "Woman, plead with him!" Hale screams. "Woman it is pride, it is vanity. Be his helper! What profit

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