Who Is John Proctor Guilty In The Crucible

Ever been accused of something you didn’t do, chances are you weren’t seeing death as a punishment. The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller that visualizes the historic hysteria that was the Salem witch trials. The play set in Salem, Massachusetts the main protagonist John Proctor a wealthy landowning man who is centered of the accused of being witches while innocent, and at the end of the play he ripped up his confession condemning himself to death, and that was the right decision, because his name signed on that paper would have relinquished any pride or humanity he had left and living with the guilt of dishonoring those innocent killed would ruin him and his reputation. John proctor is shoreside and being persuaded into confessing to being a witch and dealing with the devil. Without his name, he would be left without any way to identify himself it was the last treasured thing he had. “ Because it is my name, because i cannot have another in my life, because I lie and sign myself to lies, because I’m not worth the dust of them that hang, how may I live without my name I have given you my soul, leave me my name!” (John, 1272). His name was the only way he knew who he was and reassured him sense of humanity, losing that and living would send him to his inevitable death any how. …show more content…
John Proctors wife, Elizabeth, stands as she watches John being hauled away headed for the noose and Mr. Hale is hysterically pleading that she go and make him sign his name. “He have his goodness now. God i forbid that i take it from him”(Elizabeth 1273). Goodness is the idea of being morally excellent or pure kindness, he did it for everyone except himself; by letting himself die he would practically end the witch hunt keeping tens of hundreds more innocent alive. John and Elizabeth knew that his death wouldn't be one in