Many of the characters in The Crucible become changed by the end of the play.
Three of the characters who change a lot are John Proctor, Reverend Hale, and Mary
Warren. It is shown that John Proctor changes in his willingness to have anything to do
with the witch hunt and his moral decisions. Reverend Hale changes his personal outlook
on and role in the witch hunt throughout the play, and he changes his general attitude
towards the justness of witch hunts, the court, and the church. Mary Warren changes her
mind about her role in the witch hunt several times, and she also must change her morals
or ideas about sin. Each character's changes make huge impacts their lives and the lives
John Proctor changes a lot throughout the play. At the beginning of The Crucible,
he is willing to sit back and let things happen. He does not want to involve himself in the
witch hunt or risk getting himself into any trouble. Even though he knows that Abigail
and the other girls are lying, and many innocent people are being accused of witchcraft, he
doesn't do anything about it until his wife is accused. At the end of the play, however, he
is willing to lie down his own life. Dying, he takes part of the responsibility for the other
innocent deaths, deaths that he is responsible for because of his delay in exposing the
truth. Sacrificing his life is also the only way that he can try to break the authority of the
church and court. John also changes in the sense that, at the beginning, he withholds the
truth, which is a sin, but at the end he tells it all, even at great expense to his reputation, or
name, because he realizes that his soul is much more important than his life. In the
beginning he doesn't care about what is morally right, he just looks out for himself. In the
end he makes a great decision based on his morals after a long and difficult battle with
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