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The Crucible John Proctor Integrity Analysis

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Long ago in Salem Massachusetts there was an event that took place called the Salem witch trials. In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, he shows how the witch trials could ruin and distort a person’s reputation and integrity. The courts tortured the accused until they would give up that there a witch, but they posted the names of the so called witches to the churches front doors for the whole town to see. In The Crucible the character who could not deal with the loss of their reputation and integrity is John Proctor.
To begin with, when Proctor confesses to his affair with Abigail while in court, he does so because his sense of integrity demands it. His wife has been sentenced to die. Proctor has a choice to make either maintain

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