In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor is the main protagonist because he changes significantly from being dishonest and arrogant in the beginning of the play to being courageous and honorable at the time of his unjust death. Arthur Miller introduces John Proctor after the crisis including Betty and the girls at Reverend Parris’ house. The initial description introduces Proctor as an untraditional protagonist with bad moral values. He is set out as a man of the church, but “...a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time, but against his own vision of decent conduct” (Miller 20). In John Proctor committing adultery with Abigail Williams, it made him a hypocritical, dishonest man as he continued to participate
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The narrator exhibits to the reader, by telling of Proctor’s going “against the moral fashion of the time,” that he truly trusted his influence and power in the community would protect him from the death sentence and common punishment. John Proctor’s personality changes due to the stress put on him as a good husband and Christian in result of his past choices. John Proctor, at the end of the play, almost lied to protect himself from the noose, but is the liberator of his own name when he rips up the proof of his ‘confession’. John Proctor, in a frenzy of self honor and heated passion, shouts before his condemnation, “You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor…[to Elizabeth] Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it” (Miller 144). As John Proctor destroys his only chance at life during the trials, he shows that through his final words to Elizabeth that he wants, not only himself, to go out with honor and respect, but he wishes for his wife and the people with similar beliefs to follow in his footsteps. Through a courageous spell he pleads with Elizabeth to “show honor...and sink them with it”, John realizes that by doing wrong in his life he can lead the righteous into salvation by keeping them
The narrator exhibits to the reader, by telling of Proctor’s going “against the moral fashion of the time,” that he truly trusted his influence and power in the community would protect him from the death sentence and common punishment. John Proctor’s personality changes due to the stress put on him as a good husband and Christian in result of his past choices. John Proctor, at the end of the play, almost lied to protect himself from the noose, but is the liberator of his own name when he rips up the proof of his ‘confession’. John Proctor, in a frenzy of self honor and heated passion, shouts before his condemnation, “You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor…[to Elizabeth] Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it” (Miller 144). As John Proctor destroys his only chance at life during the trials, he shows that through his final words to Elizabeth that he wants, not only himself, to go out with honor and respect, but he wishes for his wife and the people with similar beliefs to follow in his footsteps. Through a courageous spell he pleads with Elizabeth to “show honor...and sink them with it”, John realizes that by doing wrong in his life he can lead the righteous into salvation by keeping them