John Proctor

John Proctor and I. “God is dead!” This quote was said by John Proctor a character from The Crucible, while he was being accused of witchcraft. John Proctor is a character from The Crucible, that is looked at as a sinner and an outcast. He had an affair with his seventeen year old servant, who accuses his wife of witchcraft. When he tries to save his wife he is accused of witchcraft and is hung for it. John Proctor and I have a few personality traits in common in that we are sinners, outcasts

Max Lee Mr. DeGregorio English 3 11 November 2014 The Most Capricious Character: John Proctor How would you respond if no one in the world believes what you claim, and people, who are after your position and wealth, are increasingly accusing you for an alleged scandal? This hopeless situation is the main theme of The Crucible. The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller in 1953 based on the Salem witch trials during the late 17th centuries. As the play gets closer to the end, some characters

hysteria of witchcraft, John Proctor, husband to Elizabeth Proctor, is guilty of adultery and compliance to witchcraft. Just a few moments ago, Abigail Williams admitted that John Proctor and she had intercourse behind Elizabeth Proctor’s back. She described that Mr. Proctor “sweated like a stallion whenever [she] comes near” (Miller 21). Mr. Proctor also confessed to his wife of having an affair with the young child of seventeen years old, Ms. Williams. He tells Mrs. Proctor, that “like a Christian

the McCarthy era; like how Abigail gets mad John Proctor does not want to be with her and spreads a rumor that his wife is a witch. “A tragic hero is the main character in a tragedy,” directly describes John Proctor. John Proctor is the husband of Elizabeth Proctor and one of the most well known and respected men in the village. They both have trust issues after John has an affair with an old “maid”, Abigail. She was fired or ‘let go’

John Proctor and Hester Prynne There is a connection in the lives of each of these characters, which makes them very similar, but at the same time, there are also things that distort them. The events that are carried out with each of these characters condemn them to pay a high price for the mistakes they made. John Proctor and Hester Prynne have to deal with a very great guilt that haunts them. These characters share the same feelings and conflicts. They are the main characters in each story, who

Telling the truth and standing up for what you believe in are directly correlated, in The Crucible, these themes are explored through the protagonist, John Proctor and his unwillingness to tarnish his name, but do the right thing. John Proctor's actions in the book show how he was able to stand up to something that he didn’t believe was right. John Proctor is a middle-aged-family-man, he lives in the town of Salem as a farmer with his three children, and wife Elizabeth. In the book Elizabeth once said

Vienndy) The witch trials had just begun in Salem and several people were trying to fight against the trials but John Proctor fights injustice most effectively in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.     John Proctor, a man with a blackened secret exposes himself to save the women he loved showing his honesty to the town of Salem. At the end of the play after Elizabeth Proctor is accused, John goes into the court with Mary Warren in hopes to prove his wife's innocence. He knows he must tell the truth and

John Proctor is a well respected farmer during the Salem Witch Trials. In The Crucible, Proctor faces many conflicts. An external conflict that Proctor faces is when he gets caught having an affair with Abigail Williams and he loses all of his wife’s trust. When Elizabeth found out about the affair between John and Abigail she kicked Abigail out and had lost all trust of Proctor. Proctor became more faithful to his wife Elizabeth and he wanted to earn her trust back, but she has a hard time because

great tale that shows us not to believe others just from the words they say, but by the actions and evidence for the claim. John Proctor was a huge supporter of this. Though John had done some bad deeds in his past, his actions during the end of his life prove that he is good man. John Proctor is the ultimate example of a man can still be a hero in spite of his flaws. John Proctor was the hero in Arthur Miller’s Crucible, because he overcame his shame from being adulterer, he was the only one to see

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, John Proctor is a farmer that is wedded to Elizabeth Proctor. John is trying his best to provide his best efforts to show improvements of himself towards his children. It has been reported by the town folks that John is a good person. The thing about John was that he committed adultery with Abigail Williams which is their house servant. This decision found its way to the Salem Witch Trials and that is where a majority of people were accused of witchcraft. After