The Crucible Character Analysis

Throughout the story, John expresses qualities of an honest man by defending his wife Elizabeth when she is

The witch trials in this play were based on actual events that happened in Salem in 1692. Arthur Miller’s 1953 The Crucible is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials. His reasoning for writing it was because everyone was hysteric about the Soviet Union and communism trying to make its way over to the United States. It was like a modern day witch hunt. In the play, Abigail Williams and a group of girls get caught in the woods. They were dancing and doing other things that puritan’s looked down upon. The girls were caught by Reverend Parris, and soon after his daughter became ‘ill’. The girls then started saying that witches came to them and told them to do bad things. They sent innocent people to hang. After studying Arthur Miller’s

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, it takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during colonial America. Throughout the story a group of girls makes accusations a mass of people of practicing witchcraft, one of the worst crimes to commit during that period, and people are being sentenced to hang for denying witchery. In the Crucible there are many lessons that Arthur Miller wants to teach you. To me a lot of the lessons that were taught in this story are important but I feel like one of them is the most important. Arthur Miller demonstrates that one of the lessons implied in the story is people’s character and how it affects those people and others. Examples of character are Giles Corey, John Proctor, Abigail Williams.

"The change in the hero's fortunes be not from misery to happiness, but on the contrary, from happiness to misery, and the cause of it must not lie in any depravity but in some great error on his part." This is a well known quote by Aristotle about tragic heros. Although Proctor was a very honest, brave and well respected man in Salem he was not flawless. John had a secret, which was soon to be discovered as the Witch Trials took place. Miller’s idea to create the secret relationship between John Proctor and Abigail Williams plays a big role in making Proctor the tragic hero in The Crucible.

John Proctor is a noble, honorable man. After being falsely accused of being a witch, he refuses to rat out any of his other friends for compacting with the devil. “I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it”. (Miller, 141). Proctor’s reasoning shows that he is an honorable man that has the decency to not betray his friends. According to the crucible, “Proctor, respected and even feared in the community” (Miller, 20). John Proctor has admiration from the townsfolk for not confessing to a lie, and speaking his mind about the witch trials and how the girls are frauds. Even though John is respected and loved in the community, he has flaws that we cannot ignore. A tragic hero must have a tragic flaw, and for John Proctor, some of his flaws are his pride, and lust. “I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near! Or did I dream that? It’s she put me out, you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your face when she put me out, you loved me then and you do now!” said Abigail (Miller, 22). I see both of John Proctor’s flaws in this quote from Abigail because he refusing to admit that he has any feelings for Abigail or even speak of their affair. “Wipe it out of mind. We never touched, Abby” (Miller, 23). His lust leads him to his affair with Abigail and his pride in his good name is what makes him keep it a secret. Although keeping this secret will have costly consequences for John Proctor..

Proctor is also portrayed as a character of honesty in various scenes. John Proctor, though a man of guilt, is an intelligent man who sees the wrongdoings of others and can speak the truth about what is morally correct in life. When questioned by Danforth if he is a lecher (a man of excessive desire), Proctor responds, “A man will not cast away his good name. You surely know that.” It was also in this scene that Proctor confessed of his affair with Abigail. Though it was hard for Proctor to reveal his adulterous past, he spoke the truth (not only about Abigail, but about not “casting away his good name”) in order to save his wife and stop the strenuous court proceedings. Proctor’s honesty prevails throughout the play when he he comments on the tense situation in Salem at the time: “Peace, it is a providence, and no greater change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. Aye, naked! And the wind, God's icy wind, will blow!" By this statement, he means to tell the townspeople that they no longer have “protection” from God’s wrath because anyone could accuse anyone in the crooked justice system of Salem. It can now only come down to God to judge who’s right and who’s wrong. John Proctor is

John Proctor tried to do that right thing, he tried to do what was best. In Act 4 John Proctor says, “And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat.”(Miller 110). When he tells Danforth about what he did with Abigail he is trying to do what he thinks is best for his wife. He tells Danforth about what he did because he wants to prove to him that the girls are lying in the court. In Act 3 Proctor says, “Mary. Now tell the governor how you danced in the woods.” (Miller 104). When John Proctor uses Mary Warren to testify against the girls he is only trying to prove to Danforth and everyone else in Salem that they are lying! By using her is doing what is best for the town of Salem. John Proctor did everything he could to be sure that he was doing everything that was right.

John Proctor is typically an honest man, and he along with Rebecca Nurse try to be the voice of reason by deeming the concept of witchcraft ridiculous. Proctor has an extremely toxic, and particularly one-sided relationship with Abigail Williams the origin of the tumult that becomes the Salem Witch Trials. John had a brief affair with Abigail though to him was trivial, to Abigail engendered the fabrication of relationship her with John. Proctor does not seem to understand this despite

One tragedy is a result of numerous conflicts and wrongdoings. In Arthur Miller’s stunning play, The Crucible, a primary character named John Proctor has an affair with a young woman named Abigail Williams. Throughout the play, it is evident that John Proctor is a tragic figure due to the fact that he commits adultery, is unable to tell right from wrong, and betrays Salem in multiple ways.

John Proctor is concerned about his reputation in the town of him being a very manly/brave man. When Elizabeth was accused my Abigail, John stood up for her and fought to keep her, even when they took her to jail. John walked through the doors of the court trying to free her. He was very concerned about his reputation in the town, and he confessed to having an affair with Abigail Williams. He was trying to free his wife and take down the lying girls in the process. This was a very brave act, Proctor held tightly to his reputation in the town, telling that information took all of it away from him. He confessed this knowing that it would convict him, he just wanted to free his wife and shine light on the girls to the court.

John Proctor is a man, in this residential area of Salem, Massachusetts, with an incredible notoriety under his name. He is the spouse of Elizabeth Proctor, remorseful partner of Abigail Williams, and father of four. In this blasted town, he is the main redeemable man actually when you consider his blames; his breaking point and everything that he is carried out. He's not flawless, however he is sympathizable in the way that he, regardless of what the expense he will settle his wrongs and tries to be a finer man. John is similar to the rest of society simply living his life to the best he can.

With the mistakes of humanity come both guilt and sins. In the story “the crucible” written by Arthur Miller shows guilt can move people to make sacrifices. Guilt has the ability to drive people to make dire choices. Many characters like reverend John Hale, and Reverend Parris felt this guilty conscience, this remorse about what they had all done., especially John Proctor who throughout the story strives to exempt from his guilt and sins.

John Proctor is a young, upright, outspoken, successful farmer in Salem. He loves and respects his wife and is sorry for the act of adultery he has committed with Abigail Williams, his former servant. He resents the greediness and moral attitude of Reverend Parris and, therefore, invites his irritation and suspicion. John hates hypocrisy. When the hysteria begins, he hesitates to expose Abigail as a fraud because he worries that his secret will be revealed and his good name would be ruined. Abigail uses her influence to convict his wife; he tries to tell the truth and finds himself convicted of witchcraft himself.

The play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller is a tale based off of the Salem witch trials in 1692. The small village is in Mas hysteria when a group of youth girls are pertences when they are being “victims” which lead to the execution of many towns people. One of the main characters that is affected by the mas hysteria of the village is John Proctor a man who is later hanged; and who is subjected to many trials and tribulations throughout the four acts.John is a good man in the end, even with his imperfections that may be seen as evil, John still had the will to change his actions and to become a better man before his pride took over him.

In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Many are accused and killed, but how did this all happen. It all began with girls in the woods. A group of girls were dancing in the woods and performing a ritual with Tituba and the true leader of the girls, Abigail Williams, is putting a curse on Elizabeth Proctor to kill her and then drinks blood. Directly after, the girls are discovered in the woods. The girls all run and hide, but are still rounded up to ask questions. Two of the bunch fall into a deep sleep. A Reverend is then called to come examine the girls. He is originally in Salem to find if the girls are sick. He is told of their dancing in the woods and then begins to question if they were making deals with the devil. The girls say that they were just dancing and that Tituba, a slave, made them do it and as she was making them dance she was singing one of her Barbados songs. Tituba is questioned if she is working with the devil. At first, it is denied by her that she would ever do that but, her owner beats her to make her tell the truth. Tituba cannot take the pain of the lashes anymore, so she confesses to witchcraft. This is only the first of many untrue confessions of witchcraft.