John Proctor

Socio Religious Power Structures: The Irony of Sinners In Power The infinite struggle for power has existed as long as humanity, and due to their nature, it will never soon be coveted any less. The structures of power fundamentally impact society, denoting what people can and cannot do, while also finding itself a part of the stories that humanity tells, such as The Crucible, where playwright Arthur Miller provides a thrilling dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials, while also paralleling the…

In the late 1950’s, playwright Arthur Miller included character John Proctor in his drama, The Crucible, because he believed that the time period during Mccarthyism lacked true heroes. Although Proctor is not the typical hero that usually comes into mind according to the common definition, Miller portrays him as a tragic hero, one whose biggest flaw is his own honesty. Some may disagree that Proctor was indeed a true hero, due to the fact that he committed adultery. Although this is true,…

The Crucible, the characters Reverend Hale, Reverend Parris, and John Proctor are dynamic characters that undergo important and life changing experiences. John Proctor is a dynamic character that changes to a person that admits his mistakes and takes the fall for other people.…

People change over time based on mistakes made and situations they experience. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play about the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Salem is a religion-centered town. Religion helped determine the person’s reputation and how justice was defined. In the beginning, the girls were dancing in the forest and making a potion with Tituba to get the men they love. Parris saw them in the forest and the next day asks what they were doing. He does not want the people of…

went. The series of trials led to the deaths of innocent people, including John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse and Giles Corey. The deaths of the characters are significant because they were extrovert citizens and well respected; however, they had enemies and they sought to get reprisal. These characters deaths are necessary because they played a big role in the society of Salem and used it to get a point across to the audience. John Proctor’s death symbolize that he died taking a stand for doing…

John Proctor is a man of integrity, and he displays this trait in the play, “The Crucible” by John Miller. He stands up for what he believes in and has a strong moral compass. Throughout the play it is easy to look at John as a villain and as a man who is full of sin, but if you view him with an open minded perspective you can see that he is a morally just man. Although John made some foolish mistakes, we can see how his passionate love for his wife and family is everything that matters to him.…

Arthur Miller was a middle aged man named John Proctor. Through out the entire story John showed all the qualifications of being a tragic hero. The qualities are: he or she must be well respected, has a tragic flaw that causes their downfall, be able to redeem their self and lastly the person dies. In the next few paragraphs all the obstacles John faces to qualify as a tragic hero will be listed and briefly discussed. As the story goes about John Proctor was definitely a well respected man in…

John F. Kennedy once stated, “We are the Nation of Immigrants.” Immigrants referring to; people who move to a foreign country in hopes of finding a better life for themselves. With this, everyone who has moved to America was at one point an immigrant. Some families have been in America for hundreds of years, while other family have been here for just days. But nonetheless, we are all immigrants. Many immigrants came to America in search of a better life, but found themselves unwanted by the…

Although the two stories very different, the theme between them is actually very similar. This is the relationship between Hester and Chillingworth, and what his objective is throughout the story, and the relationship between Abigail and John Proctor, and what connects them throughout the story. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is actually the wife of Chillingsworth. When Chillingsworth learns that Hester had cheated on him and had a baby with an unknown person in the community, he is…

Abigail is fairly sadistic and misguided young girl, who effectively uses the people around her for her own benefit. As she is a character with a self-preservation mentality her goal becomes to not only to eliminate Elizabeth Proctor, but to maintain her lie and prevent anyone from finding out that she ever deceived them. When accusations are being thrown at Abigail in court and the truth is slightly visible she insistently denies it and states, “Abigail: I have been hurt, Mr…