Even though he made some mistakes that even affected his wife Elizabeth Proctor, she still forgave him for everything because she loves him despite what he has done. John Proctor was having an affair with Abigail Williams and it went a little too far and got out of hand. Abby started to fall in love with John, but John still wanted to be with his wife. Because John made Abby fall in love with him, she wanted to be with him forever and be his wife. Abby wanted to make Elizabeth disappear so that she could have him all to herself. Abby then told a lie that would soon get thrown way out of proportion. She had accused Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch. After she said something, then all of the other girls did too. The girls and others all started naming people left and right and that started to get the whole town’s attention. Of course, this is Abby’s fault because she is the one who started the horrendous lie, but she would not have started it if John Proctor had not led her to believe that they were in …show more content…
He wanted Mary to do this for him so that him and his wife would stop receiving false witch accusations from Abby and the rest of the town. Mary was a very weak girl, so it was hard for John to put all his faith in her. Judge Danforth was not believing anything that John was saying about his wife being innocent so he decided to confess about his affair. He told the entire court about Abby and what happened between them and John did this so that Judge Danforth could see that Abby was making all of the witch accusations up. To make sure John was telling the truth, Judge Danforth told Parris to run and get Elizabeth to ask her about the affair. When she got there she tried to look to John for help to answer the questions, but she couldn’t. To try and save her husband, she ended up answering that John did not have an affair with Abby, unaware that he had already confessed to it. As soon as that ended, Abby started playing more witch tricks saying that Mary was with the devil. Since Mary was weak, she ran back over to Abby’s side and said to John Proctor, “You’re the Devil’s man” (Miller 194). Then Mary tells Judge Danforth how he is with the Devil and how he is a witch, and Danforth believes him, so John gets sent to jail. If John would not have admitted to doing this, then he could still be