Elizabeth Proctor Character Analysis Essay

In the beginning, John Proctor is described as a decent man, but throughout the story it is revealed that he has many layers of secrets that he must wrestle with internally before deciding to tell people in order to save his wife and friends from death. His crucible is the decision to tell the court that he slept with Abigail in order to save his wife, but in the process it will destroy his reputation and taint his name. His passion to keep his wife alive is shown when he says "My wife will never die for me?" (Miller, 76), but his passion to stay alive and to maintain a good reputation is shown when he says "It is not a child," (Miller, 96) in reference to Abigail Williams. He says this to give the perception that she is not a child, and what he did was not wrong. His anger with the inner conflict builds up and up until it is released when he says "I say God is dead!" (Miller, 111). This shows that this conflict within has made him lose faith, and brought him to the point of not caring what people think of him. So in the end he decides to release his secret.

Elizabeth Proctor has an internal conflict within herself of deciding on weather to accept John's affair with Abigail or to ignore it and not think about it. This conflict is shown throughout the book, and even in the end when she decides not to tell the

It's the same conflict that both John and Danforth have to fight, and that’s how they can prove that John is innocent. Danforth decides to go along with Abigail, but Reverend Hale continues to fight for John, despite public opinion. Reverend Hale's conflict is solved through good and good will towards other men. We can see throughout the story that Reverend Hale knows the right thing to do is to save John, but there is nothing he can do to convince the people of the court, and of the town, to believe that John is innocent, and Abigail Williams is a