In all of us there is a deep, dark fear, it is what grips us at the threshold of life. It controls the most important aspects of our lives. It lies in the deepest, darkest chasms of our souls. The very creature that wreaks havoc in our minds, we cage it and never confront it, we lock it away for fear of defeating it. If the beast is not confronted, it begins to contort itself and change who we are as people and how we interact with others. Even the decisions we make as a person affect those around us and those close to us also experience the consequences of our actions. Like the crucible and how each person was turned into their own monster by greed. John Proctor is a simple man who has always done right by himself and his family. A good man who worked hard for the food he provided and the animals he cared for and depended on for survival fell to his own personal beast within himself with whom he was locked deep, but when you cage the beast, he gets angry and tries to break free, and under your own personality he has to defeat the beast inside him by trying to escape. John Proctor chases his beast inside which had broken its cage and got loose inside and took control as he lay with Abigail. This inner beast doesn't care about the consequences that will happen, good or bad, it just looks at its need, its need to feed on what it has been craving for so long. The action he took sent his life into a spiral brought on by this inner beast. The inner fear had overcome him and pushed him to commit his dirty deed, which led to the major consequences of Abigail's expulsion and his massive obsession with the overseer. His action gave his own personal demon the key to breaking free and making him...... middle of paper ...... his own fear that the data he had collected was false and that the city was to be judged by each accused in these hearings of having been hanged for witchcraft. It was Hale's demon of fear that he couldn't overcome being the key holder to these people's lives and that caused the court to try them for false accusations from a few young girls. Fear is in all of us as people, it’s how we deal with it. demon among us all to live with ourselves among others. It is what gives us power over others and their own fears used against them. Although when several people share a common fear of another group and wish to see them torn down by the other, they begin to level false accusations against others, as the crucible of those who are willing to do anything their own personal fear to give them the power to do what they want. is necessary or what feels right to them at that time. - SALEM WITCH TRAILS 1692