According to the Oxford Dictionary, a melting pot can be defined in several ways. One such definition is “a place or occasion of severe testing or testing.” All the characters in this play have to face some sort of test. In this play, the morals of each character are also tested: their goodness, their wickedness and even their ignorance of the truth behind the unfolding of events. The roles of the victim and the accuser in this play are distorted to represent a theme of perspective and seeking the truth. Abigail Williams is the character who does the most to overturn these roles, and it is by her hand that the people of the city die. The division of the property is decided by the reader and the character based on their perspective. For the reader, sympathy is usually directed at the victim of the situation, but this game distorts the balance of power between victim and aggressor. It makes the characters believe that the victim is the prosecutor and that the prosecutor is the victim. The consequences of this role reversal involve the incrimination of a character with profoundly good morals, Rebecca Nurse. Early on, Rebecca is recognized by Hale when he tells her, "It's strange how I knew you, but I suppose you look like such a good soul that it should." (Miller 34) Rebecca Nurse is sentenced in a moment of great hysteria. She too, a character who seems good and does nothing but good, is involved in the blasphemous vortex that shakes Salem. The perspective of evil is also infrared in this play, but it is the ignorance of current events that makes the potentially good characters hateful. These characters don't deliberately choose to be on the wrong side of the system, but they ignore the events behind the scenes, and this ends up shaping their character. Danforth and... half the paper... they won't give it to him. Nor was anyone else who was his superior. When Proctor took an interest in her, it was the first time anyone had paid attention to her, and she was hungry for it. When all of Salem paid attention to her, she no longer needed John. Abigail's reckless hunger for attention cost Salem the lives of innocent people, yet she never wavered. He was guilty of lust, greed and, above all, vanity. The Crucible preaches an unusual sermon in which he warns readers about the power of fear. It teaches how far good can go before it becomes evil, and how heaven and hell can disguise themselves. It teaches how complicated people can become before they realize where they stand and where they want to be. Above all, The Crucible teaches that right and wrong are very easy to confuse when you don't know what secrets are waiting to be discovered..