The three characters that I am going to examine are Abigail, Hale, and John Proctor. But as it is the case with most characters in this book, each of the three main characters had a goal they wanted to accomplish or a set motivation in the beginning. Abigail was the teen-aged niece of Parris, who first suspected witchcraft upon the girls. Once Abigail had been suspected, she would do anything to seem innocent and get the blame off her. She would tell lies, and most of all, blame others for the witchcraft. “I saw Goody Hawkins with the Devil!” “I saw Goody Boot

To a certain degree, it seems like these characters don’t even seem like the same people at the end of this book. Abigail, who at one point was the first one to point a finger at someone else, then who would do anything to avoid the conflict, finally realized she had done wrong and ran away from home. Once Hale realized what was going on in this town and how crazy things had gotten, he began to feel ashamed and corrupted and tried hard to set everything right that he could and save the innocent. The person with the most positive change I feel is John Proctor. He finally found justice with God and happiness with himself after confessing his sins to the public. He freed his soul and kept his pride, but lost his life in the process. All the changes made in these characters can easily be traced back to their crucible experience.

Even though these characters seemed strongly motivated, the crucible experience morphed their motivations sooner or later. Earlier, Abigail was first to blame others for any witchcraft at all, and now she would try and avoid questioning or the topic all together. “I done my duty pointing out the Devil’s people- and this is my reward? To be mistrusted, denied, questioned like a –“ (108). Not only does she avoid this conflict, but she is now denying her affair with Proctor, even

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