By playing her Mafia-like wailing and doll piercing games and forcing the other Salem girl to participate, Abigail determines to terminate Elizabeth and keep John for herself In the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, John Proctor was internally triumphant when he gained respect for himself, primarily due to his mission of personal redemption and his integrity.
Overwrought by regret of his actions, John Proctor is driven on a mission to personally prove himself. He realizes the enormous mistake of committing lechery with Abigail, and wants to prove to himself he has a good will. The play explains an outbreak in a village in which a Puritan society using a theocracy government convicts hundreds on the word of a few girls, falsely accusing townspeople of witchcraft, therefore bringing havoc to the town and John seeks to end the lies of the main antagonist, Abigail.
In the second act, John Proctor acts very aggressive towards others and commits cruel acts in the name of his Puritan village showing a lack of good moral values as well as respect for others.
I have known her. These words spoken by John Proctor reveal he did wrong by cheating on his wife and acknowledges the sin he has committed. Proctor is a farmer in his thirties who has 3 kids as described in the book.
John Proctor is living during the time of the puritans and the bad Salem witch trials. The author of The Crucible ,Arthur Miller wrote this play as a symbol for another event. In The Crucible John Proctor is seen as very observant and notices things that go against the beliefs of the puritans,he is also bold or brave ,because he told the truth even though the consequences would be severe, he is also seen as a passionate character.
This shows that he knows what they are doing is wrong. He also knows their pretending instead of telling the truth.
In The Crucible John is seen as observant by the town people however he is also bold. Another characteristic of that John Proctor displays is boldness. Proctor says "She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave! This conversation happens in the court when proctor is trying to bail his wife out of being hung by telling the court Abigail is a liar. Even though John committed adultery a sin he confesses in attempt to save his wife. John is very bold and tried very hard to tell the court the girls were lying ,but failed.
Not only is John Proctor bold ,but a passionate. He's also John Proctor, The Crucible 's protagonist, has some major issues. But we can see why. Back in the day, he had everything your average Puritan man could want: a farm to ceaselessly toil upon, three sons to discipline, and a wife to make a home with. Proctor was a stand-up guy who spoke his mind. Around town, his name was synonymous with honor and integrity.
He took pleasure in exposing hypocrisy and was respected for it. Most importantly, John Proctor respected himself. Enter: Abigail, the play's antagonist. This saucy young housekeeper traipsed in to John's life while Mrs. Proctor was super ill, btw and, before he knew it, his good life was bad, bad, bad. John made the mistake of committing adultery with her.
To make things worse, it was also lechery Proctor was in his thirties and Abigail was just seventeen—yuck. All it took was one shameful encounter to destroy John's most prized possession: his self-respect. When we first meet John Proctor halfway through Act I, we discover a man who has become the thing he hates most in the world: a hypocrite. He is caged by guilt. The emotional weight of the play rests on Proctor's quest to regain his lost self-image, his lost goodness.
In fact, it is his journey from guilt to redemption that forms the central spine of The Crucible. John Proctor is a classic Arthur Miller hero: a dude who struggles with the incompatibility of his actions with his self-image. Well, apparently John's wife Elizabeth was a little frigid which she even admits , and when tempted by the fiery, young Abigail, John just couldn't resist.
Elizabeth was sick while Abigail was working for the Proctors, so she probably wasn't giving her husband much, erm, attention. But probably the cause of John's transgression is much deeper than base physical reasons. It's also quite possible that John Proctor was attracted to Abigail's subversive personality.
Miller seems to hint at this in the first scene where we see them together. Abigail tells John that all the hullabaloo about witches isn't true. She and the other girls were just in the woods having a dance party with Tituba. Miller writes:. The key clue here is the stage direction.
Although he wants to live, escaping death is not worth basing the remainder of his life on a lie. This realization, along with Elizabeth's forgiveness, enables Proctor to forgive himself and finally regain his good name and self-respect. As the court officials lead him to the gallows, he finds peace for the first time in the play.
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