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 …showed first 75 words of 673 total…

…showed last 75 words of 673 total…put her at risk. Every character in the story played a role crucial to the development of the plot. Their emotions, actions, and views on things differed, but in a way that contributed to the story. The characters personal emotions sometimes control the lives of people other than themselves, in good ways and in bad. What they believed and how they reacted had major consequences, and the desires of one another cause things to change.