Courage In John Proctor And Michael Orr's The Blind Side

In the movie, “The Blind Side”, Michael Orr writes in his paper: “Any fool can have courage. But honor, that 's the real reason for you to either do something or you don 't. It 's who you are and maybe who you want to be”. In John Proctor and Peter Appleton’s case, they both had the courage to stand up to society, but their true honor revealed when they stood up for what they believed in, and whom they wanted to be. Both of the films’, “The Crucible” and “The Majestic”, main characters struggle whether to choose what is ethically right or morally right, but either one they choose they would somehow face a consequence. Overall, John and Peter, the main characters from these two films, demonstrate that standing up for one’s morals, despite the consequence, shows true honor.
Standing up for their morals proves that they have achieved moral integrity, which reveals their true honor. When Danforth was trying to get Proctor to confess to being a witch, he replied to Danforth, “I speak my own sins; I cannot judge …show more content…
In the following example, Peter argued to the Chairman: It’s part of the contract every citizen has here. Even though the Constitution and the Bill of Rights… even though they’re just pieces of paper with signatures on them… they’re the only contracts we have that are definitely not subject… to renegotiation. Not by you, Mr. Chairman” (The Majestic). The word it’s is referring to the freedoms in the First Amendment. It took a lot of strength for Peter to tell the Chairman that what he was doing was not morally right because he could of sentenced him to jail. There was a reason behind what Peter did though; it was to redeem himself, and to show America that McCarthyism was wrong. Towards the end of the film, Peter Appleton became a brave man because he stood up for what was morally right in front of live television, despite how morally uncertain his country was at the