How Does Proctor Show Sacrifice In The Crucible

John Proctor cares too much for his name to take action against the witch trials. Elizabeth asked him to go to the court and tell them it's a fake. Elizabeth demands, “I would go to Salem now, John - let you go tonight.” (Miller 162). John is very hesitant about the going to Salem. He doesn't want his good name to be ruined because of the affair with Abigail. John replies “I’ll think on it.” (Miller 163). John feels as if he goes to Salem he would have to confess to cheating on his wife with an underage girl. He does not

“So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him”. This quote, of course, is from the bible from Hebrews 9:28. The quote is talking about when Jesus Christ was sacrificed. Hebrews 9:28 is saying that because he was killed, when he comes back to life his sins would be washed away. The well-known Bible was written during the 6th century, but a modern example of speaking of sacrifice is The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller. The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during the year 1692, when believing in the Bible wholeheartedly was as common as using your phone is today. People who did not stray from following the bible, were looked up to and revered in the community. The author, Arthur Miller establishes

Throughout The Crucible we learn many things about John Proctor. Despite learning about the sins he has committed with Abigail the reader’s tend to agree with his character and support him. John Proctor has committed very intense sins and is clearly not free of guilt which is why his decision to hang instead of falsely confess was noble.

Within Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the protagonist John Proctor is accused of doing the Devil’s work by his former servant Mary Warren. This results in Proctor being put on trial and giving him the option of life or death. If Proctor admits to these false allegations, he will have the ability to live, or if he refuses to confess, then he will be hanged. Ultimately, Proctor chooses to end his life rather than live a lie. Proctor’s choice to choose death was an act of excessive pride and perhaps can be seen as noble due to the sacrifices he made in return.

During the Crucible, in the town of Salem, everybody is in fear of witchery. Lots of drama and fear has been going around about people committing witchcraft. In Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, Proctor, is a rule breaking man who changes from being a cheater to a man who has a change of heart and wants to save people who are being falsely accused of witchery by admitting his own sins. John wasn't always a kind man, trying to do something good for the community. Before he changed, Proctor could be described as a cheater, a narcissist, and a brave man.

In these turbulent times, trust is forgone, temptations are overpowering, and sacrifice is needed. John Proctor’s death was a necessary evil needed to sway the people and forgo the court's power over life and death.

This passage was very shocking and also meaningful to me. I have the utmost respect for Hester Prynne for being able to realize that she can not run away from her sin and for choosing to accept her sin and wear it proudly. I think this passage was so puzzling to me and many other students because truthfully most people would have left and stayed away from Boston. Majority of people would wish to get away from their troubles and start over but not Hester Prynne. This passage reminded me a lot of John Proctor in The Crucible.

In The Crucible, John Proctor is put into several sticky situations as he is determined to clear his wife’s name and dispel this corruption and nonsense of the court. Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, is put into jail and is to be tried on the accusations by Abigail Williams that

John Proctor lived in Salem, Massachusetts. Salem had been struck with witchcraft rumors that were started by a manipulative teenage girl named Abigail. He knows that the girls were sporting, and blaming innocent people of supernatural crimes that cannot occur. John Proctor’s wife Elizabeth had been accused of witchery, as a form of revenge from Abigail. Abigail had strong feelings for John Proctor, and wanted to get rid of Elizabeth. In the end John Proctor tried to do the right thing by saving his wife from his own sins. Therefore his sins put the love of his life in a great risk of dying. Throughout The Crucible John Proctor was seen as a smart, argumental and brave man. However, the town did not see him as a puritan or a good

In The Crucible, Arthur Miller depicts John Proctor’s confession as a turning point in his life by showing how he finally accepts the consequences of his sins. Miller uses Proctor’s climax to argue that confessing one’s sins is honorable and shows strength of character. Through his honest confession, John Proctor experiences a change in his perspective toward his own reputation. He accepts that the shame of allowing his wife to suffer for his mistakes is far greater than the shame of bedding Abigail: “A man will not cast away his good name” (Miller 110). He implies that a man would not implicate himself of adultery, losing his “good name”, without a just reason-

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible it is clear that the development of the play is about John Proctor’s tragic condition. Miller uses this aspect to compel the audience to see why Proctor did what he did and to develop a sense of empathy for him. John Proctor overall is both flawed and honorable. He has a complete reversal of fate brought upon by his own flaw. John Proctor is a tragic hero because he contains all of the characteristics of a tragic hero, such as catharsis and hamartia, despite not being born into nobility, he has many noble characteristics.

One of my most frustrating times was when a girl was spreading an obvious false lie around and people believed it. This time happened at my track meet this past summer. I was at a meet that was pretty far away from where I lived, so there was not that many local competitors that I knew at that meet. However, there was one girl there that I knew, and have competed against before. Before our race we gathered up under the tent prior to our race. I got to the canvas a little later and when I got there the other girls were already in depth into a conversation. The only girl that I knew had the other competitors circled around her and I overheard her and she was telling them ridiculous false times she has ran. The girl who was lying was saying that she was way better then what she was. All the other girls believed her and that angered me because she was not telling the truth and I knew it. To sum it up this is about the time I heard an athlete lie to everyone she was running against to make her look intimidated and infuriated me .

The air is warm, sweat dripping down his face. He longingly looks towards his wife with tears in his eyes; knowing the end is nigh. And then, with a bang, a crack, a whimper; his soul left, hoping to be in a better place. This was one man of many who was hung for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. They all were admirable and died for a cause. One of them was an influential man by the name of John Proctor. John Proctor is an admirable man in the play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller because he is respectable, has a need to protect others in his life, and has integrity/honor.

Despite his being an insignificant and non-status-holding member of society, John Proctor is a much-respected man in Salem. However, in determining his fate, he continues to make several critical and irreversible mistakes that harm his reputation. For fear of being exiled in a town where reputation plays such a large role in their daily lives, Proctor initially tries to hide his crime of adultery, but his affair with Abigail triggers a major series of events in Salem, where simple, unproven accusations escalate to a far larger issue: “Abby—you mean to cry out still others?” “If I live, if I am not murdered, I surely will, until the last hypocrite is dead” (Miller 150). In the end, Proctor decides that for the sake of his desperate circumstances, it would be better to admit to his affair, but by the time he decides to reveal his crime, it is too late to reverse all past actions. He is convicted of witchcraft and doomed to be hanged, later, when given a chance to live, he caves in and confesses to seeing the Devil, only to go back even on this last lie, because he does not have the heart to be freed and saved by a lie.

The Salem witch trials was a story of envy, lies, and the danger of the people. Others wouldn’t defend those accused, and if they did, they themselves were eventually charged as witches. In many ways, defending others was condemning yourself. Such was the case for John Proctor in “The Crucible”. John Proctor was someone who had made mistakes, but through his own crucible made peace with himself and defended the honor of himself and the others that would not admit to witchcraft.