How Is John Proctor Related To The Crucible

The Crucible by Arthur Miller In the play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, the play took place during the real Salem Witch Trials between 1962 and 1963. The play is similar to the real event, however in some parts in the play there was exaggeration of the characters and a few parts were changed. In Salem there was major conflict brewing and John Proctor is caught up in it. In the beginning of the play, Proctor is introduced as a husband who has committed an affair with an extremely younger girl by the name of Abigail. When Abigail approaches Proctor and talks to him, she tells him how they are faking witchcraft. Proctor then tries to stop the trials when he realizes that the girls have faked it. Later on, he is accused of witchcraft

This is still debatable, because Proctor only confessed because he had to. Abigail decide to use her jealousy of Goody Proctor to set her up and by setting her up she made it look like Goody Proctor had committed witchcraft. Abigail did this because she was trying to make a point and get John Proctors attentions. When John Proctor sees that his wife was set up and he knows why and goes to the court to try to get Goody Proctor out of jail and prove Abigail of falsurey. When at the court he claims that Abigail does it out of jealousy, however he does not have anything that supports his claim. This causes Danforth (the judge) and the others to not believe him, therefore his last instinct is to tell the court about the affair with Abigail to prove his claim about her intentions. When Danforth hears of the affair he ask the others to bring out Goody Proctor, to question her about whether or not the affair is true. Proctor then claims Goody Proctor has never told a lie. Since Goody Proctor does not know that Proctor has admitted to it and she lies. After lying and saying Proctor never committed an affair, Proctor yells, “Elizabeth, tell the truth! Elizabeth, I have confessed it! (Miller 1,148).” Proctor only confessed to affair because it’s his last option to expose Abigail and to get Goody Proctor out of jail. If Proctor would have found another way to

John Proctor can act out in aggressive ways, but some may say he is honorable because when he argues with Mary Warren he tries to reasoning with her first. To continue, the only way that he could convince Mary Warren to listen was to act out in angry. Even though John Proctor tries to reason with Mary Warren's he is in a rounded way a very violent and abusive to Mary. In this event, Mary wasn’t supposed to leave the house, however later that day she appears at the house after Proctor has already arrived home. When John Proctor confronts her about her leaving, she says she must to go to the trials. Disregarding what she has just said he tells her not to leave the house again and he threatens to hurt her. This is when Proctor starts to yell at Mary. When threatening Mary Proctor says, “I’ll whip you if you dare leave this house again” (Miller 1,117). This shows that John Proctor was quick to lash out on Mary and threatens to physically hurt her when all Mary wanted was to be present at the trials and wants to help the trials. However, Proctor gets mad at her and uses abusive threatens only because she goes somewhere when he never claimed he needed her at home for anything