The Crucible John Proctor Character Analysis Essay

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is filled with lies and conspiracies, and most characters in the play give their best effort to lie their way out of the problem. However, John Proctor is one of the few characters who struggles to display moral character. In the beginning of the play he hides his sin in shame and he hopes nobody discovers his secret. Towards the end, he realizes he must admit to committing adultery with Abigail in order to save his wife and redeem himself from his own sin. In the beginning of the play John is regretful of his sin and wants to keep it hidden. John only wishes to move on and he wants to move on from Abigail. In the play John declares this to Abigail, “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. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched Abby” (22). What Proctor says proves he has no feelings for Abigail, and all he wants to hide the fact that they slept together Proctor wants to pretend his life is normal and nothing ever went on between the two of them. This happens to be a very low point in Proctor’s life and he feels guilty for his sin and lies he desires for his life to be how it was before he committed adultery with Abigail. In Act II, he talks with his wife and there is a lot of tension between
At the start he ran away from a terrible sin and could barely live with it, but by the end he needed to confess his sinful ways and in doing this lifted the burden of his sin off his shoulders. Even in death he triumphed by refusing to give Danforth names and sign the confession. Arthur Miller really strived to show John Proctor's fall and rise. he wanted to portray that not everyone . Some people can reclaim themselves just like Proctor. Proctor truly redeems himself in the end by standing for what he believed was right and he chose to die as an honest man instead of a