What Is Elizabeth Proctor's Role In The Crucible

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Elizabeth Proctor, a character from the play The Crucible by Author Miller, is kind, mousy, and family oriented. Throughout the story, Elizabeth repeatedly shows that she cares more for the people around her than she cares for herself, even if that “person” is a rabbit. In act one, while speaking to her husband about dinner, she says “Pray God. It hurt my heart to strip her, poor rabbit.” (1162) It hurts her to harm something else physically, or even mentally. For example, her husband, John Proctor. She is very meek around him, because she is trying her best to keep her husband calm and happy. The author describes her “delicately” (1168) speaking to Proctor, and depicts her as “trembling, fearfully” when her husband is upset with her. Elizabeth