Proctor's Character Traits In The Crucible

Proctor is a good man, full of integrity. At the end of the novel, he has a choice: falsely confess about practicing witchcraft or be hanged. He doesn’t want to die so he agrees to confess, but he has a hard time signing the document. Once he does, “His breast heaving, his eyes staring, Proctor tears the paper and crumples it, and he is weeping in fury, but erect,” (144). He rather die than live a lie, which shows his righteousness.
John is unfaithful; he has an affair with Abigail while he is married to Elizabeth. He’s guilty about the affair, so he tries to ignore it, but Abby won’t let him. He tells her, ““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”” (23). He knows he’s a horrible sinner, but he’s trying to escape his sin by pretending it never

John Hale
Character Traits:
Reverend Hale is very intelligent. “Mr. Hale is nearing forty, a tight-skinned, eager-eyed intel-lectual… He feels himself allied with the best minds of Europe - kings, philosophers, scientists, and ecclesiasts of all churches.” (32, 36). Many people in the neighborhood know he is bright, and he considers himself to be as well. He believes he fits in with the most clever men of Europe.
He is determined to convict people of witchcraft, and he is also sly while doing so. He went to the Proctors’ house to learn more information about them that he could use against them. He begins to question them, “With the voice of one ad-ministering a secret test, “Do you know your Commandments, Elizabeth?”” (66). She replies positively, but when he asked John to name them, he forgot one: adultery. He asked it as if he was testing him, and this shows how smooth he was when gathering information from others.
Relationships:
no current relationships with people of the town because he’s an an outsider

Giles Corey
Character