Eulogy of John Proctor Welcome friends, and thank you for coming today as we remember and honor my dearly departed husband, John Proctor. John was an straightforward, well built and hardworking Christian man, that is up until he died.John and I were the same as any Puritan couple in Salem, we grew up here and so did our parents and grandparents. When we were married, I was in love and I loved him throughout his life and I still love him now. He was a good citizen of Salem and was very well was respected. Although he did not go to church very often last year, he built the church, put a roof over it, and a door on it for all of us. He really cared about this town. John was also a good father , he saw the births of our oldest three children. Though, he was hanged before he could meet our newborn child. I’m sure he would have loved our children dearly, as he did Salem if he were still alive today. Several months before he died, before all of this inane and absurdity began, he had an affair with the hysterical Abigail Williams. Of course I was indignant and agonized when I found out, what loving wife wouldn't be? It took me a long time to forgive him, but deep down I knew my husband was a good man that he would cut off his own hand before he would even try to commit adultery. …show more content…
Regardless , he would rather die than see his name and reputation blackened and the whole town knowing he supposedly signed a pact with Satan. There’s not one person I know who would do the same knowing that they would no longer be looked the same way. Some people debate whether or not John is in heaven or hell, I do not doubt it for a second that he is with God. “Love thy neighbor” just as John did, we should too. “Do not bear false witness to our neighbor” which is what we should have kept dearly, John did. The only commandment John ever broke was adultery, yet he