After pilgram settlement in the modern known United States, the pilgrams endured harsh encounters like having nothing and having to build a new life, the cold winters, and the constant attcks of the indian tribes. The only way the settlements survived was threw the people working together and strictness. The town of salem war one of the most strict settlements and the one that surrvived the longest, but the town was very full of tension and rivelreas. Proctor exhibits his inner self and wilts with cowardice at the end of the story when he himself says, “I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint it is a fraud. I am not that man. My honesty is broke, Elizabeth, I am no good man. Nothing‘s spoiled by giving them this lie that were not rotten long before” (Miller 4.481). At this point, Proctor, in a cowardly manner, is trying find a way out of his hanging, by telling his wife Elizabeth that he has lied and that he is no longer a good man, and therefore if he is hanged he will die a bad man. But if he lies he will also live a bad man, and he implies that he would prefer to live in the world full of sin than go to hell and pay for his sins. …show more content…
Proctor after a long day of work comes home and has dinner, complements Elizabeth's food, and talks with Elizabeth about her day, and then Elizabeth tells proctor that abigail is the leading accuser in the court, accusing innocent people of witchcraft, and finally tells proctor to confess to the court but he cowardly says, “I know I cannot keep it. I say I will think on it“ (Miller 4.481). Knowing that many people will die the next morning, Proctor, restrains himself of going to the court to confess that Abigail is a fraud, thus he knows that if he confesses, Abigail will accuse him of adultery and his good name in the town will be