John Proctor Significance

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In this quotation, Proctor is speaking to Abigail about their problems from the past. Proctor tries to get away from his problems with her because it has brought him shame and doubt in his life. Abigail would be significant because she explains the details of what has happened back in the past with John Proctor. She tries to take away or kill John Proctor’s wife as of taking him for herself. In the world today, many people are seen to have lust or greed because of how they are feeling. Some people just cannot detach from what they have done that changed their life drastically by doing something that would feel right. Though many people can see life as a great privilege, others would take advantage of a situation and shape it into many problems. At this point of the story,Rebecca is speaking to all of the people in the room. This was to explain that the children have not done much in life, as they are children. She is significant because she is speaking from wise words, as she is an old woman that has lived through most of her life. She wanted to give the children sympathy for the problem because if the children are accounted for as guilty, they may not be able to flourish the rest of their life. It hurts Rebecca to …show more content…
Proctor shows a sense of frustration for not having Danforth believe him. Significance of proctor is that he shows a sense of stan in him . He shows the ability of being satanic by confessing his ways of anger towards the church and everyone affiliated with it. He has shown anger through the words of lucifer and the abilities of summoning life from the dead. In life people can get angry for many reasons as if it affected them personally. Their issues could have been quite elaborate and easy to understand, but is not noticed because of other things going on. As there are false accusations in life, something major could be a benefactor in bringing out the anger in someone’s life and

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