In the text the crucible written by Arthur Miller in the 1950’s, the characters are usually motivated by the same themes. Three characters in the text that demonstrate this well are: John Proctor, a very honest upright man who had an affair with Abigail Williams. John also is the tragic protagonist of the play due to this flaw. Reverend Hale, a witch-craft identifier expert who spent almost the entirety of his life knowledging himself about evil spirts, and finally Reverend Parris, a church Minister who is a very weak hated man. The first motivation recognized by the reader is reputation, it is the earliest recognisable themes in the text and influences the characters in Salem, in addition to being adapted as soon as the text begins with
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Reputation is a key motivation for him, as it was evident it was the last thing he had left as he cried to Danforth in act 4 “Leave me my name”. John can be seen as a caring, individual man from the norm of Salem, one example of this is the opportunity given to him at the very beginning of the text to end the girl’s endless accussations, however the desire to protect his reputation withholds him from downing this. In my opinion this shows that John did not only prevent himself from ending the trials for the good of himself, but for the good of his family. This included detail by Arthur Miller highlights Johns individuality from the Puritan town, it finally reveals his care for others. This is due to the fact he would need to admit to adultery with Abigail Williams,the witchtrial leader whom he had an affair with, ruining their name. As the protagonist he eventually overcomes the limitation of ending the trials, as they went too far even to the extent of Abigail accusing his wife of witchcraft. John then decides to confess to adultery in a hard attempt to end the hangings, this confession however was dismissed due to his caring wife protecting his name. This yet again shows the theme of caring rather than reputation.
John’s care for reputation began to crumble later on in the text, as with Mary Warrens change of opinion in the case, and his wife’s imprisionmeant due to Abigail. this led him to make a false confession of witchcraft, sacrificing his name for the life of himself and his
Reputation is a key motivation for him, as it was evident it was the last thing he had left as he cried to Danforth in act 4 “Leave me my name”. John can be seen as a caring, individual man from the norm of Salem, one example of this is the opportunity given to him at the very beginning of the text to end the girl’s endless accussations, however the desire to protect his reputation withholds him from downing this. In my opinion this shows that John did not only prevent himself from ending the trials for the good of himself, but for the good of his family. This included detail by Arthur Miller highlights Johns individuality from the Puritan town, it finally reveals his care for others. This is due to the fact he would need to admit to adultery with Abigail Williams,the witchtrial leader whom he had an affair with, ruining their name. As the protagonist he eventually overcomes the limitation of ending the trials, as they went too far even to the extent of Abigail accusing his wife of witchcraft. John then decides to confess to adultery in a hard attempt to end the hangings, this confession however was dismissed due to his caring wife protecting his name. This yet again shows the theme of caring rather than reputation.
John’s care for reputation began to crumble later on in the text, as with Mary Warrens change of opinion in the case, and his wife’s imprisionmeant due to Abigail. this led him to make a false confession of witchcraft, sacrificing his name for the life of himself and his