The Crucible John Proctor Reputation

In recent news articles, Former New Mexico Governor and Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson admitted to being unaware of the aleppo crisis, and not being well informed on the Syrian refugee crisis. After being pressed and questioned multiple times to whether he was being serious. This article related clearly to a character in the novel, The Crucible by Arthur Miller in many ways. The changes that John Proctor goes through during the story show the theme that men will go to any lengths to protect their reputation.

The difference between reputation and integrity is other people’s good image of you, versus your good image of yourself. This is what John Proctor struggled with throughout the entire acts of The Crucible. A reputation

is the belief of opinion that is generally held about someone or something, and integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. In The Crucible, John Proctor is a self-righteous farmer who has a very strong influence on the people of Salem, Massachusetts, but has always carried a moral struggle about himself.
Proctor is perceived as the model citizen who retains good morals on the town of Salem.

Everyone in the town views Proctor as a man with a mission. But in act 1 and 2 of the story, he commits adultery with a girl named Abigail. The story is once set in a religious community that is very strict on everything. This event put a bad image over his head as a man who commits adultery isn’t believed to truly love and respect his wife.

“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feed of them to hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” (act 1, 36)

Proctor is currently ruining his reputation but also is aware that at the same time, many other innocent prisoners died while he quaked at death’s door and fled from it. Between pages 20-30 in act 1, Proctor’s desire to contain his reputation and integrity kept him from confessing his secret affair, but Proctor clearly understands how much he means to the town. After fitting into the role of a modern tragic hero, he fights for what he believes. He is against the hysteria and the injustice in the court and is ready to support all the consequences of his acts, which could even possibly mean the revoking of his reputation &

integrity.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller was a great example of how one character goes through massive changes that equal out in the end. John Proctor was one of the main characters whose moral not only affected himself, but also the others surrounding him. Throughout the entire story, Proctor reinforces the theme that men will go to any lengths to protect their reputation, which sadly for him meant passing on but John Proctor did not die with pain and sorrow, on page 114 Proctor says "I have three children, how may I teach them to walk like men in the world, when I sold my friends." (114) He shows the people around him that he has to set a good example on the children so they can go off and be who they really want to be. John Proctor died a honest man, keeping his reputation.