Analysis Of John Proctor 's ' The Crucible '

People’s true character is revealed through their actions. Their morals and ethics can be told from how they choose to act in a situation. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible; the character of John Proctor is an honorable man despite having committed wrongful acts. He was able to redeem himself through acts that is considered courageous, such as when he refuses to contribute to the lie of witchcraft in Salem, when he fights for the people who were convicted of witchcraft and when he regrets being a dishonest man.

How many people have you met in your life that is stronger because of a difficult experience they went through? Most people are because we take these difficult experiences and grow from them and become better people. This is the exact case is expressed in the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. The story begins in Salem, Massachusetts 1692 right in the middle of a period of witchcraft hysteria. During this time many people were accused of being witches and wrongly convicted by judges Danforth and Hathorne. The characters in the story are struggling because of a girl named Abigail who gets caught practicing witchcraft and then starts naming and accusing others so that she doesn’t get in trouble; one of these people being a well-respected farmer, John Proctor’s, wife Elizabeth. The title, The Crucible, refers to a test, trial, ordeal, formation by fire, and vessel baked to resist heat, and the entire story is an allegory meaning it has a hidden meaning. John Proctor symbolizes a crucible by embodying the definition of one, as he went through a test and was formed by fire.

The primary dramatic focus in the play The Crucible is the moral struggle of its protagonist, John Proctor. Certain characteristics of John Proctor's character and also the environment of the Puritanical Salem alleviated this problem for him. The main issues running through out the play are a series of dilemmas that John Proctor faces. The first and foremost of these is his guilt over his adulterous affair with Abigail Williams, the second his hesitation to testify against Abigail to bring out the truth and the third, his final decision to make the ultimate sacrifice.

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, various characters, whether it is from physical trials or unseen personal struggles, experience some kind of major conflict. There are those who spend every day in fear, wondering whether or not they will be falsely accused of witchcraft. There are others who struggle with more internal trials, such as forgiving those who have hurt them. The protagonist, John Proctor, was a man of strong moral constitution, and held himself to a high standard for the sake of his good name and family. As a result of this, he struggled with a major internal conflict throughout the play.

Purist Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 suffered from a rapidly increasing phenomenon: witchcraft accusations and trials. The Crucible is a play that recounts the times of this incident. For the most part, it follows a man known as John Proctor. He is a sensible, honest, and hardworking man who made the mistake of succumbing to lust which sets off a chain of events that leads to the witch trials, and to his own demise. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible’s protagonist John Proctor proves to be a flawed human being who struggles to make sense of his past relationship with Abigail, his love for his wife, and his pride.

John Proctor tried his hardest and went through hell and gave his life to try to save the people of his town in Salem. “ I am only wondering how i may prove what she told me Elizabeth. If the girl's a saint now; I think it not easy to prove she's a fraud the town gone silly., she told me in a room alone, I have no proof for it” (2.127-131). My explanation is by him saying that he means its going to be hard to prove Elizabeth Proctor is guilty and they are going to find out it's a lie. I connected to this because John and his wife are innocent and she never tells a lie, also they can't even prove that they are lying even if they were. Joth talked to Hale about the situation when Hale came to John's home in the middle of the night to ask questions.

Heroism among individuals often has to endue a test, which will help in determining who they are. To full decide who is a hero and who is not a hero, it shows on when individuals face a problem or hard situation or barrier along their life where the characters did not give in until their death. This situation helps in characterizing a coward person and a hero one. A coward person will quit the fight and seek other easy ways or even give up while a hero will fight will all means and courage to ensure that he/she wins. Those who are heroic are always brave, and at all time, they stand still no matter how the situation is stressing or painful. When people encounter a problem along their way of life, either they fight back, or they either give in or allow others to fight and solve the problem. Those who without any fear are the real and real heroes. In The Crucible by Miller, amount all the characters, John Proctor and Giles Corey are heroes. This study compares the bravery between these two character, both John Proctor and Giles Corey shows heroism as ethical characters, John Proctor and Giles Corey plays their role as heroes in The Crucible as they show integrity in their actions, and both and mostly Proctor is even- tempered, respected, not easily controlled and feared.

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a story that displays a tragic hero and many women who deceived about interacting with witchery. Proctor's life completely turned upside down when Abigail started all these lies and put the people he loved and cared to their death or jail.  John Proctor's fatal flaw was his great amount of pride, that continued a series of unfortunate events. Unfortunately, Proctor died for a crime he did not commit.

John Proctor, in terms of the conclusive evidence based from the Crucible and evidence drawn from archives of the Salem events, had some slight similarities between his Crucible counterpart. But, of course while they have similarities, it is incredibly important to mark the differences as the lines between the dramaticized and the actual truth of John Proctor can be hard to distinguish to some.

The consequences of shirking accountability for ones actions are depicted through the tribulations John Proctor faced, in Arthur Miller's, The Crucible. Although John reluctantly became involved in the Salem witch trials, his initial silence proved to be the downfall of not only himself, but of his fellow townspeople as well. John Proctor remained silent for one reason, and that was to protect himself. As a result of his self-serving desires to avoid the consequences of his actions, innocent citizens were put to death.

In The Crucible the characters all show different kind of growth throughout the story. The story is based of a town called Salem and when the Devil hit Salem all the people started to turn on each other. What started of as a little joke between girls turned into a whole game for them to play. The girls accused anyone they saw or anyone that did them wrong and each and every time those same people were hanged. Although, this play is mostly about the witchcraft the people also changed as time went by and they started to understand what was happening and why it was wrong.

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, the reputation and integrity of characters led to the downfall of many others, some of which were the ultimate downfall in death. The play is set in a time of darkness, The Salem Witch Trials, where everyone is trying to preserve their reputations while also fighting an internal battle of witch accusations. The trials begin all due to one teenage girl who had an affair with a married man. The most prestigious of these townsfolk are the head judge, Judge Danforth, a landowner who only is rivaled by one other, Giles Corey, and a prominently known name, John Proctor.

In The Crucible I believe that John Proctor changes the most, since he's the main character. You can see how he changes throughout the book. John hates hypocrites but is an sinner himself. Mostly everyone thinks that John Proctor is better than anyone else. On act 1 it states, “...There is evidence to suggest that he had an sharp and biting way with hypocrites…He is a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time, but against his own vision of decent conduct. These people had no ritual for the washing away of sins.” meaning John is a man that is very powerful, and not easily led, although he wouldn't show it at first, he had lots of sins. He is a good example of a person in the book who is trying to hide their sins.

John Proctor, one of the main characters in The Crucible, is mostly viewed as being a heroic character. But in the play, he faces multiple tragedies. Sometimes tragedies can be misunderstood, but in the eighteenth century, British writer Horace Walpole observed that “the world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”(Tragedy, James J. Martine). So depending on how one might look at the story it may or may not be a “tragedy.” The Crucible’s tragedies and real world tragedies are very different, but in both The Crucible and the real world getting through tragedies can be similar.

Fear is characterized by feelings of dread and anxiety for oneself or another and is brought on by the threat of danger or harm. This emotion is evident throughout The Crucible and is caused by the apprehension of death as well as the unknown. Terror influences the characters within to take extreme measures and act irrationally. As this consternation becomes more and more evident throughout these series of events, those accused are left with a choice. To let this dread compel them to confess to a crime they never committed as well as to involve even more similarly innocent people in the name of survival. Conversely they can choose the noble path to plead innocent and confront the possibility of death by some cruel manner. Bodily integrity is more essential than survival because survival is temporary, and once someone abandons their integrity to survive there are only so many people they can positively impact. Yet a legacy built on personal integrity will last much longer and will be able to impact thousands more, compelling them to want to be just like the person they carry so much respect for.