Honor In The Crucible

To help his wife, might make Mary protest and court to try to save his wife even though it might cause his adultery acts to be known among everyone. He will do this because he wants his wife to be innocent and not to be affiliated with being a witch or being of the Devil. It did show that proctor might be a little hesitant to speak out against Abigail for what she did because she can call him out on his acts of adultery. Even though in the beginning of the act they weren’t really conversing, it shows by the end of the act that Proctor has some compassion for his wife and doesn’t want her to be of the accused. Proctor will most likely go to court, with or without Mary Warren to prove the innocence of his wife in the poppet situation. If Abigail mentions their affair, it could make Proctor looked down on in Salem, and could add one more thing to worry about while dealing with the witch

Proctor 's decision to tell the court about his affair ironically demonstrates his goodness. He also spoke up for the innocent girls that had their names branded. He willingly sacrifices his good name in order to protect his wife and others who are wrongly accused. Only through his public acknowledgment of the affair does Proctor regain his wife 's trust. At the end of the play, Proctor refuses to slander himself by allowing the court to make him make a false confession. The court told him to lie, and that if he lies that he would not be sent to the gallows. He did the right decision by telling the truth about his affair with Abigail. He honestly told the truth about the affair, and that he was not part of the witchcraft. His response further exemplifies Proctor 's integrity. But John was not guilty. He had nothing to do with witchcraft, he admitted to his own mistakes. Proctor knows that if he confesses that he will be damned himself, yet again, if he agrees to confess, he will also be free from the torment from the demon inside him and set others free too. This realization, along with Elizabeth 's forgiveness, enables Proctor to forgive himself and finally regain his good name and self-respect. As the court

In the play, The Crucible, MIller allows the reader to learn something about the world by showing us that the sins that we have committed will keep weighing us down, until we confess them. John Proctor commits adultery with Abigail Williams, and keeps this affair a secret from Elizabeth. Proctor starts to feel guilty, and mad at himself. He attempts to pretend that the affair never happened. “But I will cut off my hand before I reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind, we never touched, Abby…..Proctor, angered--at himself as well: You’ll speak nothin’ of Elizabeth!” (24) This piece of textual evidence proves that Proctor is unable to forgive himself for what he has done to Elizabeth, and what he has done to himself to lose his goodness.

In The Crucible, John Proctor defies the law and the corrupted court. In Act IV, he tears his confession in half after signing it in order to show his defiance towards the corrupt authority. His defiance is shown mainly in the stage directions towards the end of the Act, “Proctor has just finished signing when Danforth reaches for the paper. But Proctor snatches it up, and now a wild terror is rising in him, and a boundless anger… Damn the village! I confess to God, and God has seen my name on this! It is enough...His breast heaving, his eyes staring, Proctor tears the paper and crumples it, and he is weeping in fury,” (Miller 142-144). The way Proctor acts and displays his emotions is the strongest part of his disobedience in this section because it shows his passion to what he believes is moral and right. He knows it’s important to him that the deity he believes in knows what his conscience is thinking, but he does not care if the people surrounding him know about his confession; they are no longer important to him. Proctor also disobeys a larger authority when he refuses to convince the other accused to confess to witchcraft. He defends the right to stay silent of those who are next in line from him, “I’d have you see some honesty in it. Let them that never lied die now to keep their souls. It is pretense for me, a vanity that

Throughout the play, Proctor struggles with his honor as he changes from viewing it as his reputation to believing it is based on his own private moral of truth. The isolated Puritan community in which Proctor lives forces him to try and achieve a pious and perfect lifestyle, which ultimately pressures him into lying about his affair with Abigail in order to maintain a good reputation. This view changes in the courtroom, when Proctor becomes extremely frustrated with the lies and deceit that Abigail is telling the judges, Proctor screams in anger, “I beg you sir, I beg you - see her what she is… She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me; I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a

Proctor later confesses in court to what he has done. He calls Abigail a “whore” then says he has known her, and as his proof he confesses to committing Adultery. However, Abigail does not confess as well so for proof they call proctors wife, Elizabeth. Elizabeth does not know Proctor confesses so she denies the claim that proctor is a lecher. Elizabeth says to Danforth, “My husband is a goodly man, sir” (223) then she denies the claim and says “No sir” (223). This causes the court to claim that proctor is not only of the devil, but is also a liar. If Proctor wouldn’t have committed lechery than confessed later on he wouldn’t be convicted a lair so the blame is on him and he is again, the most blameworthy character in the

John Proctor also lies throughout The Crucible. Although he has come clean to his wife, Elizabeth, about his love affair with Abigail, it is still a secret to the rest of the citizens of Salem. John is severely ashamed of his act of adultery, and has trouble admitting it to himself. When Elizabeth suggests early on,”I think you must tell him[Hale], John” (Miller 67), Proctor evades admitting the truth to Reverend Hale of his affair even though it could have been a valid excuse for the Proctor family’s lack of attendance at church and John’s inability to say the commandment, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” In Act III, when John finally is forced to admit his clandestine affair with Abigail to the court, nobody believes him. Because John has waited so long to confess his affair, it just looks like a poor attempt to save him and Elizabeth from the indictments. If John had divulged the secret of his affair earlier on, people might scorn him for his sin, but he would have evaded the allegations of witchcraft.

During the trials, Elizabeth gets questioned about Proctor’s affair with Abigail, but she lies in order to protect Proctor’s reputation: “My husband – is a goodly man, sir”(113). Abigail feared that being honest would ruin Proctor’s image, but instead she leads herself and Proctor into a greater amount of trouble for not being completely honest with the court. When Danforth gets pressured by Hale to delay Proctor’s hanging, Danforth responds, “Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now” (129). Danforth fears that if he delays the execution, his reputation would worsen, and the court would lose its power. His fear then leads to the death of John Proctor, who had initially falsely confessed out of his fear of dying, but then refused to give up his reputation, “I have confessed myself! Is there no good penitence but it be public?”(142). Proctor was willing to be untruthful as long as he could maintain his reputation. When Proctor speaks the truth and denies his charge of being a witch, his honesty gets him sent to directly his

In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, John Proctor is put to the ultimate test of life and death. Reverend Hale claims that people should do anything to save their life, including Proctor. However, Proctor makes the right choice to end his life not only to preserve his family's reputation but also to serve as a paragon by valuing the innocent people that died, an act more precious than his own life. If he chose to confess, Proctor would "blacken all of [his friends] when [his confession] is nailed to the church very day they hang for a silence" (132). They would have died in vain since other people will start to lack the motivation of living of upholding Christian values. In turn, Proctor would live with a guilty conscience for

When Proctor publicly admits himself to adultery in the court it was falsified by Elizabeth’s innocent testimony to protect him. While it achieves nothing in court, Proctor’s statement allows Elizabeth to forgive him. Once Elizabeth forgives Proctor, it allows Proctor to forgive himself. On the day of his execution after being convicted of witchcraft, Proctor is given an immense decision to either save himself and confess to witchcraft or keep to silence and be hanged for it. If Proctor confesses, he forsakes his name and puts a burden on his family.

But most of the women still chose to not confess of witchcraft and would be hanged. The convicted women would rather lose their life than lie just to let the town hear what they want to hear from the innocent and fake confessed witches. When John Proctor confesses to the court of his crime of adultery, his wife Elizabeth is brought in to tell the truth or if John is lying, she acts of vanity and not honesty. Elizabeth had never told a lie in her life until then when she said that John did not cheat on her with Abigail. As soon as she tells her first lie, John immediately yells that he already confessed and Elizabeth tries taking back what she said and tries to justify her lie which was to save her husband.

he Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, tells a story of the Salem Witch Trials in

What is the difference esteem pride and honor? Survivors of difficult times may have different interpretations of pride and honor, foolishness rather than nobility. While the casualties are left to receive judgmental comments from the living. For John Procter in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, his intentions were questioned in the end of the play when he payed the untimate price; while some deemed his actions idiotic and other believed he was a noble man. In the end of the play John Procter made a decision to give his life rather than sin. Superficially, his actions may display foolishness or pride however, beneath the surface, his actions displayed large counts of honor and nobility.

    Proctor chose not to confess to the court at first due to his name being important to him as well as it would have been a lie which would have made him to self condemning himself. But Proctor decides to confess his adultery with Abigail to prove the court that she was using his opportunity to accuse of his John Proctor's

With both David Merrell and John Proctor, their true integrity came out when trouble was brought into their different lives. John Proctor shows his integrity by being honest. This play presents a number of conflicts, external and internal. The crisis faced by John Proctor in the final two acts of the play embody both of the external and the internal conflicts of the story as he is forced to confess to a moral transgression then accused of another. In The Crucible, John Proctor states, “Because it is my name! Because I can not have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name” (Miller 143). In other words, he does not want to be seen as a sinner due to already being a sinner in the past by cheating on his wife. So he refuses to lie to same himself in order to keep his name clean. This shows that he is willing to give up his life in order to stay true to himself and his values. In Guilty by Suspicion, the protagonist David Merrell shows his integrity by standing up to the House Committee. This shows his pride and that he is proud of who he is and he isn’t going to let these people change that. David exclaims to the committee “I was raised to stand up for what i believe in and i’m going to raise my son in the same