John Proctor's Stand Up In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

Proctor’s Stand Up A parent raises a child in their belief system because it is their duty as a parent to teach them what is right and wrong. It is the child’s decision to continue to pursue that belief. However, if the child decided to stray away from such beliefs they can face persecution from their own family. John Proctor serves as the voice of reason and justice in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Though he is a simply farmer, he stood up for what he believed in and exposed the girls foolish acts to cause hysteria in the community. Due to his opposition of the majority of the puritans, he faces relentless persecution when he denounces the insanity of the court proceedings of his religious community. In the puritan town of Salem hysteria and religious insanity broke lose

As a result, the girls deny the accusations and begin to arise madness in the town by indicting innocent people of “being with the devil”. Salem’s poor judiciary system does not question the girl’s accusations because they take their word for it? No evidence just words? “She never knew no commandments, and they had her in a flat lie! / And so commend her? / Why, they must she commend herself. / But the proof, the proof! / I told you the proof, hard as rock, the judges said” (Act 2 pg. 165). In this act Marry Warren (a girl who witnessed the other girls practing witchcraft) was at a court proceeding and the judge was condoning a women Sarah Good. She is known to be a peasant in the town. These girls seem to blame all the peasant or slaves in the village who are helpless. John Proctor seems to see