John Proctor 2
In Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, the small town of Salem is engulfed in hysteria due to the accusations of children that many of the townspeople partook in witchcraft. Among the accused is John Proctor, a strong, steadfast farmer. Proctor is the tragic hero of the story. Even though he tries to become a hero but ends up being one of the accused, Proctor tries to remain a tragic hero through his efforts to save his wife from being hung, trying to prove the children as frauds, and not confessing to practicing witchcraft once he was accused. Proctor is a tragic hero in his efforts to save his wife. Proctor's first display of trying to save his wife is shown when the Court officials come to take Elizabeth away. John Proctor: "God in heaven, what is John Proctor, what is John Proctor". John is a man of strong moral beliefs, concerned only for the safety of his family and personal welfare. He cares of nothing for the beliefs of any of the other people in the town and what his supervisor which is the Reverend, thinks either. After trying to avoid involvement in the witch trials he is later prosecuted for witchery and sentenced to hang. John trys to avoid any involvement in the Salem witch trials. His reason for doing so i
s to protect his image because he is afraid he will be committed of adultery with Abigail Williams. Following these events he tries to save everyone's lives by admitting to this horrible offense adultery and ends up losing the trial along with his life. He did have a chance to live but instead of signing away his name and his soul to keep his life, he wanted to die honorably with his friends not without a name, a soul, and with guilt. "John Proctors decision to die is reasonable and believable". Reverend Parris, the Salem minister and Proctors immediate supervisor, which says " there is either obedience or the church will burn like hell is burning." "The church in theocratic Salem is identical with the state and the community and will surely crumble if unquestioning obedience falters in the least." Proctor, on the other hand, "has come to regard his self as a king of fraud," as long as he remains obedient to an authority which he cannot respect. In other words he believes that the cannot be his true self when he has to abide by lies and not by his morals. He thinks there is to much mention of hell in God's church and about the dangers to the community to implicit in all this talk of witch craft. He is caught in a web of moral dilemmas involving not only his own fate but that of his wife, his friends, and the entire Salem community. "John Proctor is the individual who must decide weather or not he will assert himself against an overbearing authoritarian government." "His loyalty to his own beliefs - which do not include "golden candlesticks" for pulpits or "hellfire" sermons - are contradicted by Reverend Parris, so he resists the reigning authority and retreats to his farm." But thus far his rebellion against the church really involves none but is own welfare, and that in no profound way. Although all this go
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