There is nothing quite like this language displayed at the start of the drama. Proctor never speaks any words of both this emotional magnitude as well as the forceful nature of asserting both his identity and his place in the world. It is a moment where Proctor becomes more than a man, and almost more than a human being. In his notes as he was preparing to write The Crucible, Arthur Miller jotted down: "It has to be about Proctor." Indeed, Proctor is the central point of the play. It is here where change begins and is the most evident. It is in Proctor where we understand the fundamental difference between who we are and who we need to be. It is in Proctor that there is clear evidence that there can be an aspiration of how the world
