Few characters in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible do suffer with integrity through the trials, unlike everybody else. A few of these characters include, John and Elizabeth Proctor, and Rebecca Nurse. None of these folks will give up the person they are to confess to a lost cause. First, Abigail accuses Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft, even though everybody knows the woman would never lie to anyone. The men come to arrest her, so Elizabeth goes willingly because she knows it is better for her family if she doesn’t fight it. Elizabeth tells Proctor, “When the children wake, speak nothing of witchcraft-it will frighten them” (Miller 37). She is protecting her family and herself by going without a fight, although she knows she should not be in the
