Changes occur virtually everyday in our lives. The minor transformations we take in as individuals can affect us in the most crucial of ways. The same thing goes for characters in plays; one change in them can alter the rest of the plot. Dynamic characters are sufficiently important because they are changing throughout the whole story. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible there many are many great examples of dynamic characters, I will be analyzing two of them. .
One character who changes significantly and who is indisputably dynamic is Elizabeth Proctor. At the beginning of the play she bitter and questions her love for John when she finds out about the affair he had with Abigail. She is neither compassionate nor caring in the tension filled dinner scene in Act Two. She has a hard time believing him as seen in the beginning of that act when she states, "John, you are not open with me."(852). Moods begin to change when she is falsely accused of witchcraft, and John's concern for her clearly comes out when he goes to court in a failed attempt to defend her. The love that she had deep down inside finally begins to bloom towards the end when John is faced with the hardest and last decision of his life when she knows that she might lose him forever. "John, I counted myself so plain so poorly made, no honest love could come to me! Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I should say my love."(4,884). .
Another character that undeniably changes throughout the play is John Proctor. He is not exactly the epiphany of how our society views a good Christian man. After the affair he had with Abigail, Proctor is even questioning himself on how good of man he really is. People have a hard time believing him as seen in Act Two when he says, "I"ll plead my honesty no more, Elizabeth."(852). The one commandment he forgets, when reciting to Hale, is the very one he has committed, adultery.