against her so she condemns and judges him. Elizabeth anger comes from a high place. although she says " I do not judge you" (45). Proctor knows she does. Elizabeth comes to understand that " she can not read another's heart... she knows that judgment like forgiveness, must come from the self, so her anger then removed" ( Adler 97). The prove of that when asked at the court why she dismissed Abigail she lies to protect her husband's name and reputation. Adler says " Is to lie in this instance, then, an act of love?... arises from moral conviction" (97-98). Elizabeth removes any anger she has to John. She moves from ignorance to knowledge in a moment of recognition. She looks and judges no heart but hers. " let none be your judge, there be no higher judge under heaven than Proctor is! Forgive me" (104). She gives him the freedom to choose and whatever he does she accepts. Thus, out of anger Elizabeth matures to become fit for tragedy.
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He is not the traditional tragic hero because he is at no high stature. From the very beginning he crawls under the burden of his guilt. On the contrary of a tragic hero, Proctor, through the crucible of testing he finds his real stature (Otten 69). Porctor, however, is an example of Miller's definition of a tragic hero as " the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing, his sense of personal dignity" (Miller, tragedy 4). Proctor embodies this definition because his anger leads him to be free. He has the courage to reveal his anger at Salem and the courage to reveal his affair with Abigail when he tells judge Danforth that he is raising "a whore" over heaven ( II iv 110). His wrath at this evil Salem makes him believe that God has abandoned this place "I
He is not the traditional tragic hero because he is at no high stature. From the very beginning he crawls under the burden of his guilt. On the contrary of a tragic hero, Proctor, through the crucible of testing he finds his real stature (Otten 69). Porctor, however, is an example of Miller's definition of a tragic hero as " the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing, his sense of personal dignity" (Miller, tragedy 4). Proctor embodies this definition because his anger leads him to be free. He has the courage to reveal his anger at Salem and the courage to reveal his affair with Abigail when he tells judge Danforth that he is raising "a whore" over heaven ( II iv 110). His wrath at this evil Salem makes him believe that God has abandoned this place "I