John Proctor Reaction To The Crucible

Therefore, Abigail devises an evil plan to sway everyone to her side. She claims Mary Warren has sent out her spirit to harm everyone. She says “Oh Mary this is a black art to change your shape.

This is Abigail Parris. It’s been a month to the day since I left that wretched town of Salem and my plan has gone horribly wrong. My plan was to board the ship with John and we’d sail to Barbados and be together till the end. Since then though I couldn’t get him to come with me and the price to board took more than half the money I took from my uncle. My body has made it aboard the ship heading to Barbados but my heart is still back in Salem with John and it hurts me knowing that I’ll never know what happened to him after I left. I send this letter in hopes you might side with me on the issues that happened in Salem and maybe so I can seek refuge in your humble abode.

Your Excellency, Judge Danforth. You know, I have graduated from Harvard College and I am an expert in all things witchcraft and the supernatural. When I first arrived in Salem, I was tangled in a web of lies and a sheet of deception. In this trial, I believe that the accused are innocent people with good names. There is absolutely no mark upon my credibility and it is in my honest opinion that hysteria is running through Salem. Your Honour, Abigail Williams is nothing but a whore who wants to dance

John needs to leave her to run away with me, but I fear that will never happen unless I go to drastic measures. I would be a great wife unlike her. If she really could satisfy a man like John Proctor, John would have never gone and been with me instead of her. Then again, I guess I should thank her then for not being enough for him. Because if Elizabeth had been enough, I would have never known real love. For that is what John and I share. Surely this woman he calls his wife must have threatened him. There is no other reason that John would refuse my bed now. That woman has cursed him. Oh how I hate her for keeping my love and I apart from each other.

In The Crucible, Why does John Proctor change his mind and tear up the confession? What does Rebecca Nurse when she sees what john has done and confessed to?

Due to peer pressure and claims of witchcraft, mass hysteria spread through Salem like a plague and a number of victims lost their lives. Some people, such as Abigail, accused others to protect her reputation. In contrast, some people accused others because of genuine fear of witchcraft. If it were not for Abigail’s peer pressuring and the spreading of lies throughout Salem, the fate of the victims may not have been so

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.

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.

Despite outspoken personality and qualities as a critical thinker, John Proctor is far from being a perfect human being. In his notes, Arthur Miller describes him as a sinner, "a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time, but against his own vision of decent conduct." (P.20) Similar to Jesus who was tempted in the desert and taunted by the pharisees, Proctor's journey is riddled with hardships. He strives to overcome them and to follow his moral compass over the course of the novel. When Abigail Morris seeks him out after being fired, he has the courage to overcome his lust and to end their relationship. He boldly claims: "I will cut off my hand before I'll ever reach for you again" (P.22) Moreover, he spends months trying to regain

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.

Abigail was being accused repeatedly of lying and making up all of the accusations which were of false nature. The many people who were hung because of her testimony was what would now hang over her head. When she was brought before Mary Warren her false tears and outcries of pain were all an act, but in her mind she was the only one who was correct in her dealings. Abigail was for unfathomable reasons a port of knowledge through which the judges and lawyers convicted and sent to death those who were accused. The awful girl was but of one mind. She wanted revenge and to be back to her “love”, John Proctor. Abigail tried and tried repeatedly to get her hands on John, she tried to get his wife hanged, and when she couldn’t have him she decided that no one else could. Abigail soon began to accuse John Proctor of the precise thing she was known for, witchcraft. Abigail had been in the woods when the young Mary Warren went mute from the shock of seeing Abigail drink chickens blood and curse Goody Proctor, all of these happenings had to do with Abigail Williams, and now she would have to suffer through her own crucible, to figure out how she was going to get out. And though Abigail did narrowly escape the major shackles of her crimes, the guilt and foreboding of being a treacherous liar found her rumored to be a young prostitute in Boston. Forever to be alone and used. That was Abigail’s crucible and punishment for all the problems and

In The Crucible, how fear forces individuals to comply with the collective’s standards and beliefs are displayed through the characters’ struggles with their moral values and the belief of witchcraft in the community. When John Proctor demands that Mary Warren proves that Elizabeth Proctor is innocent by revealing that Abigail Williams stuck the needle in herself, Mary Warren protests, saying, “I cannot, they’ll turn on me---” (80). Even though Mary does not want Elizabeth to be hanged and knows that the spirits that Abigail and her friends claim to

She wants Elizabeth out of the picture so she and John can be together. Evidently Abigail stabs herself, as well as a doll, to create a scene to frame Elizabeth Proctor. “”Once Elizabeth is taken into custody she has lost the battle. The court does not believe the words of the convicted, but only the girls who are convinced they see the devil and their spirits. With the lies continuing there is no other way to save the life of the innocent unless they lie and confess to witchcraft. Danforth yells to Mary explaining, “You will confess yourself or you will hang!” (Miller

Therefore, we must rely upon her victims – and they do testify, the children certainly do testify. As for the witches, none will deny that we are most eager for all their confessions. Therefore, what is left for a lawyer to bring out? I think I have made my point. Have I not?"(239-243). Reverend Hale is starting to believe that the girls are lying, and he thinks that the ones being accused should have a lawyer but Danforth just says the accused only rely on victims and witnesses. Danforth feels that he has much power and he wants it to stay that way by "defending" the people. "I cannot hear you. What do you say? You will confess yourself or you will hang! Do you know who I am? I say you will hang if you do not open with me!" (483-487). Danforth knows that he has the power to say if someone hangs or not so he's using it to scare Mary into telling the truth, or in this case the truth he wants to hear.

Reverend Parris yelled out, “You cannot let her speak of such lies, your honor!” “Indeed not but she would dare to speak out about such a tale.” Judge Danforth paused turning his attention to Mr. Proctor. “Now Mr. Proctor, are you sure that your evidence is the full truth?”,Danforth ended.