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The Crucible Quote Analysis

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“The human body is the best work of art.” ― Jess C. Scott This is a quote John Proctor sure would have approved of. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible depicts the last days of the life of John Proctor. In this short time, John Proctor goes through many changes that support Miller’s theme that love is more enduring that lust. These changes take him from lustful and deceiving to loving and loyal.
In The Crucible Arthur Miller paints John Proctor to be a lecherous man. In act one Proctor and Abigail are speaking somewhat hastily when proctor says,"Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again"(Miller 23). This is where the reader really gets a glimpse of who John Proctor really is, he is a man who has cheated on his wife with a teenage girl. This a problem now, but in the 1600s this was unheard of. It says a lot about Proctor’s personality, it gives the reader look into Proctor’s scandalous lifestyle. It also sets up the story’s theme of love being more enduring than lust. In act three of The Crucible Proctor Says, "I have known her, sir. I have known her"(Miller 110). Here John Proctor is admitting to his relationship with Abigail thus admitting his lecherous nature. This is a pivotal point in the story, at this point, John …show more content…

A lot of what John Proctor does in The Crucible is to save his wife Elizabeth. When John Proctor says, "I will bring you home. I will bring you soon."(Miller 77) he promises to save his wife from being hanged for witchcraft. This also shows John’s love for his wife, Elizabeth, and his choosing of this love over his lust for Abigail. Procter drags Mary Warren to the courts to plead his wives innocence, it is in a desperate attempt to save Elizabeth(Miller 80). In his doing this, he is showing what he's willing to go through to save Elizabeth. He is once again showing his love for Elizabeth over his lust for

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Afraid of destroying his reputation in the town, John and his wife, Elizabeth, kept this secret to themselves. This would all change after Mary Warren accused Proctor of afflicting her with his spirit. In court, Mr. Proctor would eventually confess to adultery. With his reputation ruined and accusations against him, John

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Abigail said to John, “I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart... I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!”(Miller, 150). During this brief conversation between the two, Abigail says on how she still believes that he loves her and wishes to be with her in her imagination when in reality he doesn’t want anything to do with her anymore and this creates most of the conflicts and how the story ends. This quote shows on how delusional Abigail really is with her love with John and how she believes that he wants to leave his family

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