The Crucible John Proctor Essay

John Proctor In the tragic play The Crucible, the reader learns a lot about what Puritan life was like during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. John Proctor was a man in his mid-thirties who was married to Elizabeth or Goody Proctor and had three boys. He was a middle class farmer, who was very well educated and was not a man to blow things out of disproportion. Although very few people knew he was a sinner and was not immaculate, he was a well-respected and feared man in Salem. His character could be described to have effrontery. John Proctor had a good reputation in the Salem community, but by the end of the play John has learned to have integrity. He was a bold man who spoke his mind, this feared many due to the talk of witches taking over the minds and thoughts of people. John Proctor was not regarded as a good Christian in Salem 1692. The reader, Goody Proctor, John Proctor, and Abigail Williams are the only ones that know throughout most of the story that John Proctor was an adulterer with poor church attendance. He was also seen plowing on Sundays instead of in church. Mr. Hale had asked John, “Twenty-six time in seventeen month, sir. I must

He did not think everyone was immaculate. “Proctor, respected and even feared in Salem come to regard himself as a kind of fraud.” (Applebee et al. 176). John Proctor regarded himself as a fraud, because everyone knew he was a good man, everyone held him at a high standard in the community. He believed he was lying to the people of Salem due to his past with Abigail that very few people knew. This is why The Crucible says, “He is a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of time, but against his own vision of decent conduct” (Applebee et al. 175). In his own eyes, he was not a good man, in his own eyes, he was a sinner, but in the eyes of the public, John Proctor was a highly regarded