Gatsby

The Crucible: Characters and Their Emotions
Essay written by: ITZNikki530
The Crucible reveals that people's private emotions and desires often have consequences far beyond their own lives. Three characters that share that quality and who contributed greatly to the outbreak of hysteria in Salem are John Proctor, Abigail Williams, and Elizabeth Proctor. All these characters, in one way or another brought eminence suspicion and/or emotional relief into the town of Salem.

Proctor had to deal with both sides of Salem's controversy. In most eyes Proctor was a good man, but some of the things he'd done and said leave a few with different opinions. Proctor grew emotionally and as a character in whole. He started off as an outspoken man who didn't attend church for personal reasons not accepted by many others. Proctor hesitates to expose Abigail's true "identity", because he worries that their past relationship would be discovered and his name ruined.He had committed adultery, which in c...