Nobility In The Crucible And The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible a town starts massacring townspeople because a group of girls are pretending to be possessed by witches.  John Proctor, a character in The Crucible, is a Non-conformist who stubbornly avoids following the crowd and is honest by not being able to lie to the court. John Proctor’s character may revealed through his refusal to sign his name on a false confession, his inability to believe in the witches in the town and his honesty when confessing to the affair with Abigail.

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.

One of the main characters, John Proctor, faces many adversities throughout the play. He has to overcome his emotional and moral problems, which changes and develops his character into someone different from before. At the beginning of the play, Proctor appears an average person, respected in his community for his honesty. Miller describes him as “a kind man- powerful of body, even- tempered and not easily led…” (Miller 19). Later on in the play, a shift in his character shows when he learns of the many accusations of witchcraft, one including his wife Elizabeth. The unfortunate events he was experiencing brought out his characteristic of leadership and he becomes an influential leader in the effort to save his wife. Towards the end of the novel, John faces an important moral choice, he can tell the truth about his wife and die honorably or he cannot tell the truth and live the rest of his life as a lie. He shows his respectful and honest character by telling the truth and dying. The adversity that John experiences proves very powerful, but his morally right mindset stands out even more than before. The Crucible is yet another literary work that demonstrates Horace’s assumption about adversity and its

Arthur Miller has created John Proctor the protagonist of The Crucible to be a 30 year old farmer in Salem, Massachusetts, powerful of body, even-tempered and not easily led. John speaks his mind when he recognizes injustice. He is highly respected, even feared, by some in Salem. His name is synonymous with honour and integrity. He takes pleasure in exposing hypocrisy and is respected for it. However John is a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time but against his own vision of decent conduct, he has come to regard himself as a kind of fraud. After admitting to lechery, John is accused of witchcraft, on this charge he is condemned.

Huck's maturity grows with the same issue later on. When approaching Cairo, the point where Jim can become free, Huck decides that he has done something terribly wrong by not turning Jim in and decides he is going into town to tell on him. However, in a split second, while encountering some slave hunters, Huck decides against it and continues to protect Jim. This episode is particularly significant because even though Huck was "feeling bad and low, because [he] knowed very well [he] had done wrong" (91) he still made a conscious decision to do what he felt was right rather than what society thought was right.

In the play The Crucible by Authur Miller, John Proctor's pride is threatened by the Salem Witch trials. Proctor, like almost everyone else in Salem, is accused of witchcraft and working for the devil. Cracking under constant pressure and fed up with the attacks of the court, most of the accused confess; John Proctor, however, believes that he must stand for what is right and protect his own reputation. Proctor greatly demonstrates the theme of pride, as he constantly seeks ways to improve his reputation and good name; however, when the court tries his wife on account of witchcraft, Proctor is able to turn away from his blinding self-esteem and ultimately sacrifices his life achievements in the hope of freeing his wife of all charges.

Early on in the novel, Twain allows Huck to be introduced as a common, normal 14 year old boy at the time, even having Huck introduce himself in the first line in the novel, in “You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, but that ain’t no matter”. Huck goes through what could be considered normal or commonplace, such as peer pressure and need of rebellion. He experiences peer pressure, but not exactly in the same way kids these days view it as. He conforms to the Widow Douglas’ and Miss Watson’s way of life, which involved polite mannerisms and Christian values. For example, the Widow Douglas scolds Huck for various reasons in Chapter 1, such as “Don’t put your feet up there”

Arthur Miller uses characterization to portray John Proctor’s reputation throughout the play. John Proctor is the protagonist of “The Crucible”. From the beginning opening act, Arthur Miller characterizes Proctor as an honest man with good morals who tries his very best to do the right thing. He is a well-respected man around the village of Salem, which later causes his good reputation. This is the reason why it is hard for Proctor to give up his good

In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, there is sequence of events involving witching in the city of Salem. Everyone in the town is being accused of being involved of doing witchcraft. The ones that are accused will be hung if they don’t confess. There are external and internal conflicts within each character. One main character that changes the most throughout the play is John Proctor. In the beginning of the play John Proctor shows that he is suspicious but throughout the play he confesses his wrongs and clears his act which makes him become a man of his word and a true puritan.

The Crucible is a heart wrenching play that bring you back to the time of the salem witch trials. When reading you get a taste of the puritan lifestyle through many different people and personalities. Many themes jump out to you such as greed, self-preservation, power, but what really caught my attention was the integrity. The integrity shown by John Proctor was displayed at many different occasions through this play. John shows very strong personal integrity through his honesty with his wife about the adultery.

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, John Proctor is portrayed as a flawed character who despite his multiple faults is able to improve. His life in Massachusetts is plagued with various challenges and temptations, some of which Proctor proves to be vulnerable to. Despite these moments, Proctor is able to listen to his conscience and continue to obey his moral compass. This ability to return to his morals and accept his mistakes differentiates John Proctor from a sinner and enables him to be seen as a Christ-like figure. In the Crucible, John Proctor is a man of integrity, since he admits to his flaws, attempts to improve and protects the people around him, at his own expense.

At the start of Huck Finn, Huck is a follower of Tom, and does not stand up for his opinion, yet throughout the middle chapters, Huck develops morally and is able to see Jim as a human, and friend. When Tom returns in the finals chapters, Huck’s “clarity and moral resolve fade, and he becomes, if anything, more of a passive Sawyer-lackey than he was at the beginning of the book” (Saunders 201). Huck’s reversion back into Tom’s follower (who is essentially racist) leaves Twain’s anti-racist message to deteriorate, which impairs the final chapters. Preceding the last chapters, Huck breaks society’s expectations for a young white boy, when he says, “all right then, I’ll go to hell...” and rips up the letter he wrote to Miss Watson about Jim’s

Huck and Jim have a dynamic relationship for the story that they are in. In a situation that may not have been plausible for that time period Twain manages to show how in the beginning where Huck sees Jim as a slave, what society chooses to interpret him as. Lesser, black, worthless, and less than human. Huck in the beginning does not respect him and he even sees Huck as maybe slightly dumb or easily tricked. However as time goes on and the story begins to unfold Huck begins to see Jim in a new light. He begins to see him as an equal someone who he shares experiences with and someone who he wants to protect. And in society that is morally incorrect for Huck to do so he goes through somewhat of an internal struggle, however he does continue

He like the majority of the Deep South’s population was forced to submit to popular religion in the form of Christianity, being racist and not being able to criticize the institution of slavery, as well as acting like a “proper” boy and being civilized with manors, rules, and restrictions. However, he is the polar opposite of the ideals expressed by his society. Huck is forced to reside with Widow Douglas, he describes the experience in the first chapter, “She took me… allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time … I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn't. She said… I must try to not do it any more.” (Twain, 2). In this particular environment, Huck is forcefully civilized by the Widow Douglas as well as Miss Watson. This essentially shows an indirect form of slavery in which Huck is forced to do as society and his elders dictate regardless of what he believes in which many of us are also subject to. This enslaves him and leads him to decide that he needs to relocate himself as far away from society as possible. Therefore, he forges his death and runs away meeting Jim on the way. This idea of Huck being controlled by society influences him through the novel, for instance he thinks about turning Jim in because it is wrong to steal since Jim is

Often times Huck found himself in a moral dilemma on whether to do what society instilled in him or to do what he thinks should be done. Huck betrayed those feelings of “what society would want” him to do in order to be a good friend to Jim, putting his own self up at risk again for Jim. Jim was being held captive by Huck’s current host and Huck, abandoning his duties of his superior race and being a good Christian, as the Widow called it Huck suddenly has an epiphany “All right then, I'll go to hell!” as he goes to “steal Jim out of slavery” (212). Seeing the situation through Huck’s perspective it gives the reader every little detail that goes into his thought process in his decision making. These types of actions were considered wrong by society at that time and place but Huck sets that all aside and does what he feels is the right thing. Most of the time Huck has to think on his feet making the decision making process even more difficult, like the time when Huck was going to give Jim up as a runaway slave. “Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on, s’pose you’d ‘a’ done right and give Jim up, would you feel better than what you do now? No, says I, I’d feel bad---I’d feel just the same way I do now” (91). Even through Huck’s dialect you can see him argue with himself on what the right thing to is, but he throws out what society would do and does what his heart tells him. Through Huck arguing