John Proctor

Child. Dear child. Will you wake, will you open your eyes! Betty, little one…” (Miller 8). Miller uses frequent breaks in his play as an opportunity to provide the reader with facts, sometimes about characters the play, “Proctor was a farmer in his mid thirties.” (Miller 20), and sometimes about witch trials or religion in general: “The Catholic Church, through its Inquisition, is famous for cultivating Lucifer as the arch-fiend, but the church 's enemies relied no less…

Witch hunts. When people hear that, they tend to think of witches being burned, or possibly, the Salem Witch Trials. These witches weren’t just hunted down and killed; they were singled out and discriminated against by everyone around them and forced into unfair trials where they would confess or be hung. There are lots of similar circumstances to The Crucible in our world. Individuals with mental illnesses and other mental health issues are one example. These people get made fun of, excluded,…

"We study the past to understand the present; we understand the present to guide the future." -- William Lund. In Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Dana is a black woman celebrating her birthday with her white husband when she is transported back in time to the antebellum south. During her time in the antebellum south, she meets a boy named Rufus who she has to save over and over so that he will grow up and be the father of one of Dana’s ancestor. Each time Dana is transported back in time Rufus is…

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a play in which one character, John Proctor, becomes increasingly isolated. The play is set during the witch trials of Salem, 1692, and Proctor’s wife is accused of being a witch by a group of girls led by Abigail Williams – with whom Proctor had an affair – causing him to undertake a quest to save his wife’s life, yet in doing so sacrifices his own. The characterisation of Proctor, and the key scenes in which his isolation is apparent, develop the audience’s…

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…

This is written by Arthur Miller to describe the character Reverend John Hale in the play, The Crucible. He is a minister from the next town over, Beverly, called to Salem to try to help Reverend Parris with the witchcraft epidemic. Reverend Hale is a dynamic character whose faith, will to do the right thing, and choices lead to him becoming a more spiritual, open-minded, and brazen character. In the beginning, Reverend John Hale is concrete in his beliefs on the Bible and is sure of his…

"Leave me my name!" cries out Daniel Day-Lewis's John Proctor in the closing moments of this terribly disturbing and hysteria plagued drama from British director Nicholas Hytner. There's little chance of doing anything else as Hytner, who directed the comical drama "Lady in the Van", serves up a controversial historical witch craft drama with a tear bringing frustration that really gets people talking. This remake of "The Crucible" written by Arthur Miller is truly marvelous in the way that it…

crimes, “The prosecution of women most often stemmed from sexual crimes, especially fornication” (Soderlund 4). In The Crucible, most of the story relies on the love triangle between John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, and Abigail Williams. When John essentially “turns down” Abigail, she uses her unwanted passion for John and turns it into manipulative power. This dominance was then used to shut down the rest of society and cause mass hysteria. It was through this, that the trouble of Salem began…

Prior to discussion of the values of Puritan roots and significance of the crucible which the play adopted as its title, the events that took place in Salem seemed to be a mass hysteria over a “trend” fear of sorts. The title of the play, The Crucible, was a clever choice Miller made during a conversation with his scientist friend who was experimenting with a crucible, a heating process that purifies chemicals. Much like the characters of the play, any substance that goes into the pot comes out…

Proctor’s Closing Argument I, John Proctor, present myself to you as an innocent man. Yes, I have committed adultery, but that should not subject me to death. I have felt the guilt of my affair for many months since, yet never confessed for fear of losing my good name. I now stand before you, town of Salem, to right the wrongs that have been made and to put a stop to the witchcraft allegations made by none other than Abigail Williams and Mary Warren. My wife Elizabeth has done nothing but…