accused John Proctor of working for the devil. Courage is defined as mental

or moral strength to face danger without fear. This is supported in Arthur

Miller's The Crucible. Throughout the Salem witch trials in the 1600's,

courage was that good people held in to, even through the toughest times.

To illustrate this, an example of someone with courage is John Proctor.

Proctor is a farmer with a wife, Elizabeth, and three young boys. He quietly

suffers from guilt caused by an affair he had with a young woman named

Abigail Williams. He is contrite and solicitous in his wife's presence, and he

yearns to regain her respect. John shows his courage when he has to make a

life and death decision to lie and say that he is involved in witchcraft, which

will prevent his execution, or to deny being a witch and be hanged. Proctor,

after being questioned by Judge Danforth about being involved in witchcraft,

stated that he was. Danforth was then having Proctor sign a confession, but

he argued with Danforth saying, " I have confessed myself! Is there no good

penitence but it be in public? God does not need my name nailed upon the

These three great men held on to courage during a time where it would

wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!"(26) Mrs. Putnam did her share

ordered for him to be hung " high over the town " (143). John Proctor

about it, she explained, " great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead

structure and then everyone must protect themselves from the people that they thought

abandoned cattle bellow on the highroads, the stink of rotting crops hangs

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