Characteristics Of John Proctor In The Crucible
The Makeup of John Proctor
The Crucible is a play about the old Salem Witch Trials written in 1953 by Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller wrote the play during the era of the Red Scare, which was when Senator Joseph McCarthy created fears of a rise in communism. During the Red Scare, several celebrities, writers, actors, and politicians were accused of Communism, including Arthur Miller himself. Miller wrote the crucible as a way to remind everyone of our past mistakes and how closely the Red Scare imitates our past in a way of speaking out without doing so directly. In the Crucible, Abigail Williams accuses many women of witchcraft with the help of other girls and she targets the wife of John Proctor because of the affair she had with him. John Proctor becomes Abigail’s primary adversary in the court and becomes a crucial character within the story, the strongest opposing force to the injustice of the Trials. John Proctor has three main characteristics that make him so formidable, that is to say; John …show more content…
Proctor shows that he is candid multiple times within the play. A satisfactory example of this characteristic in John would be in Act two of the play, page 1270, he claims that he confessed to his wife that he had an affair with Abigail and admits to having been alone with Abigail earlier in the week even though he knows it will resume his wife’s suspicions and distrust for him. Throughout the play there is only one time where he succumbs to lying and it is when he is pressured by death should he choose not to, however; he does not go through with the lie and to protect his dignity and name he decides to die as a forthright man rather than live as a perjurer. John even admits that he is lying and exclaims his distaste for it in act four of the play on page 1333, e.g.; “Proctor, with a cry of his whole soul: Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to
The Crucible is a play about the old Salem Witch Trials written in 1953 by Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller wrote the play during the era of the Red Scare, which was when Senator Joseph McCarthy created fears of a rise in communism. During the Red Scare, several celebrities, writers, actors, and politicians were accused of Communism, including Arthur Miller himself. Miller wrote the crucible as a way to remind everyone of our past mistakes and how closely the Red Scare imitates our past in a way of speaking out without doing so directly. In the Crucible, Abigail Williams accuses many women of witchcraft with the help of other girls and she targets the wife of John Proctor because of the affair she had with him. John Proctor becomes Abigail’s primary adversary in the court and becomes a crucial character within the story, the strongest opposing force to the injustice of the Trials. John Proctor has three main characteristics that make him so formidable, that is to say; John …show more content…
Proctor shows that he is candid multiple times within the play. A satisfactory example of this characteristic in John would be in Act two of the play, page 1270, he claims that he confessed to his wife that he had an affair with Abigail and admits to having been alone with Abigail earlier in the week even though he knows it will resume his wife’s suspicions and distrust for him. Throughout the play there is only one time where he succumbs to lying and it is when he is pressured by death should he choose not to, however; he does not go through with the lie and to protect his dignity and name he decides to die as a forthright man rather than live as a perjurer. John even admits that he is lying and exclaims his distaste for it in act four of the play on page 1333, e.g.; “Proctor, with a cry of his whole soul: Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to