John Proctor's Argumentative Essay On The Crucible

John proctor believes that because he was unfaithful with elizabeth god will not be able to forgive him. He thinks that a man's name is the most important thing. John Proctor, was a man of strong morals, and held himself to a high standard for the sake of his good name and family. He was very brave in helping out in finding people who were not true to good morals.

He held himself in high morals, not because his religion tells him to, but because he felt like it is the right thing to do. When he had his affair with abigail he felt like a sinner and that he has went against his own morals. He i s used to calling out hypocrites and now he is acting like a hypocrite by his affair with abigail. In this time period cheating on one's wife was considered

a sin to probably even be punishable by death.
Proctor is a strong believer that one’s reputation is the only thing that is still there after passing away,and that the decisions we make now will affect the future.

He does not want his name to be ruined. He would rather somebody else to diss his name than himself ruin his own name. This belief has led john proctor to lie about his affair with abigail. He wanted to protect his name so much that he went as far as to keep the truth from his own wife. Which at that time was considered a sin.

At first, he had no problem with lying to the court when he blamed abigail of witchcraft because he felt there was no more wrong he could do to his name and his reputation and that one more sin would not make any difference to what he already done. At this point he basically has lost all his morals and has decided to just go along with anything as long abigail gets caught for lying about all the witchcraft in salem.

John proctor had a hard time of really trying to admit to himself that he was going against his morals at first. Then during the trials of when he accused abigail, he started to come forth with the truth of the affair but at that time it was too late. Instead it caused everybody to look at him as a liar and a person who should not be trusted. It all helped abigail and made it look like she was telling the

truth.
He tried to protect his name but it all backfired all because of one lie. John was trying to prove to the judge that he could be trusted by telling the truth and showing his goodness. It all just set up abigail for a win and made her seem an even better and innocent girl.