How Is John Proctor Honorable In The Crucible

John Proctor is a man that everyone in Salem knows. Everyone in Salem has respect for John Proctor because he is a man who has a mind like no others because he is constantly thinks outside the box. John Proctor is always thinking outside the box by taking it to the extreme, and never gives a simple answer. His thoughts provoke the towns people by showing his imagination. John Proctor is a caring man who has great respect for everyone in the town because he doesn’t want to see innocent people sent on a death trial for something that they did not do at all. John Proctor is very unexpressed. The reason why he is unexpressed is because he shows mentally he shows no guilt, but physically he shows guilt toward the towns people. Finally, with false confessions, this leads him to his final breath of life because with Abigail lying this allows the court to go on her

Although many people of the court did not believe Proctor was at fault they were just wanting a name to blame in order to make the town of Salem at peace again. When John was asked to plead guilty for the court of witchcraft he did so until he was asked to sign his name to a document stating his guiltiness so the court could then display it on the

John Proctor has to choose between death or disgrace to his family name. “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave my name!’’ (Miller 211) In the end John Proctor chooses to die rather than lie, which means he feels that he is good again. Concluding

What characteristics generate an honorable or dishonorable man? This can be contested in the play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller. This play consists of the time period during the Salem Witch Trials. Girls were said to have been witches for their dancing, and were accused of witchcraft. John Proctor was accused, and although not involved with witchcraft, confessed to being part of it anyway. He then took away his confession to keep his good name, but was hanged despite this. John Proctor chose to die in order to preserve his name in the town, and also fought for what he believed in. In The Crucible, John Proctor was portrayed as an honorable man.

Reputation, Morals, Proud, and nobility are by far the most valuable traits in the society of “the Crucible”, but the Salem Witch trial flips all the traits to honesty and faith. The Salem Witch trial is an immortal trial of innocent people being accused doing the art of witchcraft. The one man that stood out in this trial was John Proctor, the man of pride. After all, John Proctor’s last act of refusing to sign was an act of excessive pride and foolishness.

Proctor is a farmer in his mid-thirties as well as being a husband to his wife Elizabeth Proctor and a father to his sons. Though very strong willed, much of the play revolves around his affair with his then servant, Abigail Williams. John sees himself as weak because of the affair and believes that his reputation is a fraud. As John tries to reconcile his marriage accusations of witchcraft start to arise in Salem, leaving many innocent people to be hanged. After Abigail accuse John’s wife Elizabeth of sending her spirit to stab her, Proctor goes to court with Mary Warren, his servant, in hopes of clearing his wife’s name.

The Salem Witch trials were marked to be very corrupt and fallacious. In The Crucible, John Proctor, the protagonist, is faced with being the accused. In the play, John Proctor commits adultery and lechery with Abigail. Abigail is only a teenager, while Proctor is mingling in his forties. His wife, Elizabeth Proctor, is unknowing of this sin. During the trial in the play, John is asked if it is true that he did commit adultery and lechery with Abigail. Proctor says when asked about his accused adultery and lechery, “I have confessed it!” (Miller 1208) Elizabeth is then asked, “Your husband- did he indeed turn from you?” Elizabeth exclaimed in agony due to her lie, “No, sir.” (Miller 1208)

Abigail and Mary turn against John in court do not help his case. Danforth's search for justice in Salem leads innocent John Proctor to spend the rest of his life in jail. Abigail manipulates Danforth into thinking witchcraft is in Salem, so Danforth

Ruth Isayas Dr. Zeiger American Literature 4 March 2024 A Man of Integrity People often remark on how the most important moments in their lives were when they experienced suffering or challenges, which in turn serve as a chance to refine their characters. In the play The Crucible, Arthur Miller remarks on how struggles can help people grow morally or remain unchanged. When the town’s minister discovers witchcraft aloose, the people of Salem suddenly have their entire world transformed and must fear for their lives. As accusations spread, the townspeople are pressured to conform to the popular beliefs and allegations to avoid consequences. Peer pressure often causes people to take drastic measures, as shown in this play.

When one makes a decision it can often be boiled down to self preservation at the expense of others or righteousness at the expense of themselves. John Proctor, in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, is faced with this choice multiple times throughout the play. First, he must decide either to sustain his good reputation by concealing his affair, or to let the crime be known in order to prevent Abigail’s rise to power. Later, he is faced with the choice again, but this time his wife, Elizabeth, is in immediate danger and will be directly affected by his decision. Finally, he must decide between confessing to witchcraft in order to live, or being hanged, but with a clean conscience. Thesis

Was John Proctor’s decision right or wrong? Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a play that is filled with criticism and discrimination because of free will. There are conflicts due to lies, affairs, and disputes about freedom causes havoc throughout the town. After people start being ostracized for their crimes, other criminals to society like John Proctor realized that the authorities are not joking and grow some sense of conscience. Throughout the play, John Proctor is given the choice between keeping his reputation, pride, integrity, or saving his life.

His refusal to give up his false signed confession and even going so far as to rip it to shreds, is a religious stand, but also a personal stand as well. Such a confession would dishonor his fellow convicted friends, such as Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse, who were also brave enough to die as a testimony to the truth rather than satisfy the court with a false confession. Not to mention a false confession would also dishonor him, not just staining public reputation, but also his very essence. Proctor, without reservation, proclaims that the integrity he is showing will convince God to allow him into heaven. Thus when he goes to the gallows to be hanged, he has no fear of death, believing he will be forgiven for previous sins. After Hale begs Elizabeth to continue with trying to convince John to sign the confession, she responds, “He have his goodness now,” and coldly finishes the play with, “God forbid I take it from him!” She realizes that John is now at peace with himself for the sins he committed in the past and feels that he needs to go through with this to get back his goodness and honesty, lost during his affair with Abigail.

One’s values can often be elucidated through what one sacrifices. This concept is displayed in the tragic play The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller in the year 1953. The play details the semi-fabricated lives of the people in the Witch Trials of Salem, Massachusetts from the years 1692 to 1963. Through the play, several characters receive charges of witchcraft, and many get condemned to death because of it. Ideas of witchcraft began in the town when seventeen-year-old Abigail William’s declared that witches live in the town.

At the end of act 4, Proctor and Rebecca Nurse are hanged. Proctor confesses that he is working with the Devil and denies that anyone else is. This creates tension because the ending is rushed and not too much information is given away and the audience do not know if the girls would be found out or more people would be excused and how long the Salem witch trials would carry on for. Some more information is revealed about John here. He refuses to sign the confession with his name because it will blacken it in Salem. This shows the audience that he is protective over

Since John Proctor behaves as an essentially good and upright man throughout the story, his tragic death stirs pity and fear in the audience. The audience cannot help but