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