John Proctor experienced changes throughout the Crucible. At the begging John was an adulterer, he had a bad connection with his wife, and he had a temper. John had cheated on his wife with Abigail Williams. The affair created tension between him and his wife, the tension was clearly felt in the first scene that we see both the Proctors in. When John talks to Abigail in the woods he is physically and verbally aggressive towards her.…
“I have given you my soul: leave me my name.” This quote was said by John Proctor, a character from The Crucible John Proctor denied his confession when he was free. John Proctor is a farmer in his mid thirties that had an affair with a seventeen year old girl. He is known as an outcast he plows on Sundays and does not go to church often. He does not like Reverend Parris.…
Literary Analysis “God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!” said Arthur Miller. John Proctor learned the toll sinning takes on a person the hard way in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Although John is an honest man and has a personal code of conduct he is human and makes mistakes. Throughout the play John goes through his own personal crucible and in the end is judged for his actions. In the Crucible, Arthur Miller suggests that when people sin, they sometimes hurt themselves more than others.…
Both of the above quotes show how John used his affection for Elizabeth to try and reassure her that he would protect her. In Act three, John laid everything on the line to save Elizabeth by confessing his affair to the court, “I have known her, sir. I have known her.” (Miller 519; Act 4). He knew that the only way the court would believe his claim that Abigail and the girls were lying about witchcraft in Salem, was to give them a reason why Abigail would start accusing people.…
Many authors use themes in order to develop the key concepts in their literature. Arthur Miller uses character motivation in developing the plot of his play, The Crucible. Abigail, a 17 year old girl with a burning passion for someone she cannot have. She will do anything she can to get the man of her dreams and Elizabeth Proctor nor Mary Warren will get in the way of that. Miller creates the character, Abigail Williams with a tenacious and manipulative personality to obtain the person she loves.…
John Proctor is a type of character that everyone can relate to. He has a dangerous background that haunts his life and he can’t share it because he will condemn himself to pretty much death. He committed one of the Ten Commandment with a woman who was of an age that now would be considered a federal offense. Her name Abigail and in the story she was seventeen. In the Puritan community the first person you have sex with is supposed to be the person you marry.…
Grant Carr Mrs. Siplivy 10/31/15 The Crucible Essay John Proctor is a farmer, who lives in the town where all the accusations are taking place. John is Elizabeth Proctor’s husband and is stringent man. Nevertheless, he has sinned within his marriage.…
If an entire society is against you would you be willing to compromise your integrity to escape strain on your relationship with a community? John Procter stood in a church full of angry and scared Puritans. These Puritans wanted to commit murder and lock people up because they were looking to blame someone for their fear. In the play The Crucible, the author Arthur Miller wrote about the Salem witch trials of 1692. At first glance, this may seem like a story about witches, children, and religion.…
One can not emphasize on the start, but can be represented by their course of action. In the story The Crucible by Arthur Miller John Proctor a troubled some man of sixty years has one wild life story to be shown. Mr. Proctor fights for what he believed in throughout the story even though some of his previous actions may contradict with his good name. To start Mr. Proctor’s story like many other people in Salem he fights to keep his good name and protect his family. Proctor distances himself from a certain individual that can ultimately ruin his life.…
Lester Fuller and Edwin Rolfe once said “You can never tell a book by its cover” (qtd. in gingersoftware.com). In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, John Proctor an ordinary farmer in Salem and Reverend Hale, a reputable priest, charged to investigate and expose witchcraft in Salem, both, by the end of the play have been through conflicts and made several difficult choices. Nevertheless, both characters play an important role in the play. To understand the roles of John Proctor and Reverend Hale’s importance in The Crucible, one has to first understand the conflicts they’ve experienced, the choices they’ve made and the statures they’ve achieved. John Proctor, arguably the main character of The Crucible, have had several conflicts during the play as he comes to the realization of his actions towards God and the people he has convicted.…
In the Salem witch trials 200 people were accused of witchcraft and twenty people were actually executed for it. The play that is the basis of the essay is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 during these Salem witch trials. One of the main characters that this play is centered around, John Proctor, a farmer in his middle thirties. As a morally ambiguous character in The Crucible, John Proctor had both honorable and disgraceful actions that contributed to the work as a whole. John Proctor has dealings in the play that could characterize him as an immoral man.…
“When love is involved no sacrifice is too great” (David Eddings). In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, John Proctor begins as a self-centered man; however, John changes his point of view and in the end, most values his name. This suggests that it is more honorable to die with people knowing the truth rather living with a lie. Arthur Miller’s play opens with John Proctor portrayed as a selfish man, as well as a faulty husband.…
A person’s good reputation is the source of true power. At the beginning of the play, the author lets us know how good of a person John Proctor is. He is a well respected man and due to his good reputation; his power in the town is also good and “true”. The people of Salem are not aware of the past affair that took place between Abigail and John. All throughout the book, this is the only thing that John has done wrong.…
In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible many characters go through obstacles between themselves and others that they have to conquer. John Proctor is one of the characters that dynamically changes throughout the course of the play. John Proctor is a diligent, well respected man throughout Salem who has one weakness: being inundated with guilt. Proctor had a discord with himself to forgive and move past his sin. His name in the town of Salem is good but could be ruined from the juvenile actions of the antagonist of the play; Abigail Williams.…
On the other hand, John’s relationship with Elizabeth is unstable. His affair sparked jealousy in Elizabeth, therefore she treats him rather coldly. In Act II, John tries to his sin and assure Elizabeth that he has no feelings towards Abigail. Elizabeth’s trust in him is broken, so she doesn’t take this assurance to heart. John eventually gives up trying to get her to see his guilt and tells her that she has no forgiveness in her.…