Why Is John Proctor Successful In The Crucible

The Crucible Everyone in the town of Salem, MA, is the definition of credulous. Everything that happens in this community doesn’t need any proof for why it is right or wrong, if it is said it is true. No questions asked. When the girls originally blamed witchcraft for the peculiar behavior of Betty Paris, nobody wanted to believe that it was anything else. This is the core reason why so many people were killed during the witch-hunts. Abigail Williams, Elizabeth Proctor, and John Proctor were forever changed in history because of credulousness of the townspeople of Salem, MA in 1692 Abigail was enabled to do whatever she wanted in the town of Salem. Once she realized how much power she had, Dukore backs this up in his essay, “A forceful personality, Abigail is able to bend the other girls
There were scores of other men, women, and children that were hung because of their ‘ties to Lucifer’. Elizabeth is a good Christian woman, at least this is what the book leads the reader to believe, that never has done a wrong thing in her life. John Proctor clearly brings this out when he says, “In her life, sir, she never lie.”(103). This shows us that he truly believes that she could not have committed any of the crimes that she is condemned with by Ms. Abigail Williams. Abby is simply able to lay the blame on her because of the people she has already sentenced to their deathbeds. People saw that she was constantly being ‘tortured’ from the inside by the spirits these people were casting out and since a few people confessed to it not wanting to die, the townsfolk believed her story. This left no choice for Goody Proctor, but to surrender to the authorities when they came asking for her. Elizabeth Proctor was then convicted to the demonic art of witchcraft because of the credulousness of the people she lived with. Nobody thought to thing that maybe, just maybe, these girls could be