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Elizabeth has the most internal growth. In Act 2, she suspects John has affections for Abigail, but in the closing act she admits she thought she was too plain and poor to deserve a man's love, adding "suspicion kissed you when I did." She says, when John's executed, "He has his goodness now. God forbid I should take it from him. " Mary's anxiety about telling what she knows, Parris's lie to save his job, and the girls' fear of punishment compel them to tell a lie that would harm innocent people. Persecution begins when the court executes those who can't recite all the commandments and the mentally sick and homeless. Hathorne and Danforth show power and control by sending many individuals to jail on their signatures.
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