The Crucible Journals- John Proctor
Reflective
In this town Salem will be forever corrupted… with this so called justice. Those who you have know and we're friends are aren't what they are anymore. The judges have no reason. Justice has vanished. There is no god in this place anymore. The people believe nothing but a liar. It is not Elizabeth's fault. It was I, John Proctor who has betrayed her. I shall be punished for the cause of such tragedy. I never wanted this to be. I was too careless and excited. Elizabeth deserves someone better than me, For I am nothing other than a deceiving husband. Everytime I look into her Hazel eyes, it reminds me of my flaws of a husband. I so ashamed. I shall redeem myself and be free from this chaos that I have started. Tomorrow I will be forgiven for my shame. Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. Today is my last. I John Proctor will be forgiven for the sins I sins I have made. Farewell.
Persuasive
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There is still time to convince them that Abigail is a fraud!
There is no evidence of what Abigail is seeing. Everyone is too frightened to make any actions. If only Sir Danforth can see it! The people of Salem are confessing to this nonsense because of their fear of death. There has to be a stop to this. Too many people are being accused. People are dying from this suspicion of this “witchcraft. I am guilty for this, and i will convince him. all of this would not have happened of it wasn't for my foolish act. I won’t let shameful mistake be the reason of innocent deaths of Salem. Danforth, there will be hanging of the innocent. I will take
responsibility. Narrative In The Crucible a major role of John Proctor was to be forgiven for his mistakes that he had made. He had caused a lot of trouble in Salem. What caused the death of It, all started of him cheating on his wife this one night. He slept with Abigail williams which is Reverend Parris’s Uncle. One day Abigail was caught fooling around in the woods and was caught on suspicion of witchcraft. She took advantage of this and accused many people. ”I want to open myself! They turn to her, startled. She is enraptured, as though in a pearly light. I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!” (Act I, page 50). It costed many people's lives and therefore eventually caused John's Proctor’s death because of the accusations. Descriptive. The rope. You may think nothing of it, but it has killed many people in history. It's significant, because it was a way...to take someone's life away just like that with no effort. The significant to John Proctor holds a deep meaning. Instead of sealing him away, the people of Salem hanged him away. He made a little mistake and death was to answer for him. Sleeping with someone other than your soulmate is cruel and should be shunned. But the question remains, is it cruel enough to take a person’s whole life away? In which in this case, many innocent people's lives? Everyone’s opinion is different therefore it can be a mystery. It took the lives of Innocent people. It was a way of showing humiliation, for it was shown publicly to people. Its brown colored weaves made marks of their victims. Having them choke to death is a painful way to go. Their last moments of living are in those seconds of choking, gasping for air, staring at the people glaring at you, knowing that you're innocent. The rope took the lives of many, and will continue to do so. Final Entry In The Crucible, Justice plays a huge role in whether or not the people deserves to die or live. Something so little such as cheating, compared to death, Is significant. Cheating is cruel and should never be tolerated especially to someone you made a promise to be with your whole life. It's cruel but doesn't quite stand up to death. When someone cheats on you, you can choose to forgive them, or forget about them. And if you truly loved that person, you’d move on and be happy that, they’re happy with someone else. It's hard, but life can be hard. It could happen to anyone. Having someone dead is something you can never forget about. It may not impact you as much if you don’t know them, but if it were one of your family members, it will be something you would never forget about. Literally taking someone's life away. John may or may not have been forgiven when he was alive. But him deciding to take his own life, to redeem his soul and his name is significant to his morals. Justice shall always be served in any situation, Unfortunately it hasn’t in The Crucible.
The protagonists In both the play The Crucible, and the movie “None without Sin” ultimately emerged from their own nightmares without sin. Both Terry and John Proctor had to endure challenges and had to complete correct course of action, however both characters differ in comparison to the screenwriter Dalton Trumbo’s quote.
The floor creaks between each one of their pauses. The silence is deadly. Should I dishonor my lord? The pressure I just can’t stop pacing back and fourth, my skin is tender and sweaty. Salem’s gone mad! All the women be crying witchcraft! But the only one that bewitching is that whore Abigail Williams. Reverend Parris caught her in the forest leading the young ones into the depths of sin, yet I am the one to blame. Its as if I’ve gone crazy myself. They all be believing the devil is loose in Salem. But the Lord may not shine through the unfaithful. She be confessing that my Elizabeth Proctor be practicing witchcraft. I will not believe none of it. She is the biggest sinner in the house of the lord, a liar. How may she call heaven? She may think God sleeps, but God sees everything. God knows a sinner.
In the Crucible, people were continuously accused of doing witchcraft. Those people who were being accused had to either confess or die despite of the truth. Struggling in this moral decision, people began to recoil and lie to others and even to themselves in order to save their lives. Marry, who was first accused of doing witchcraft told the judges that John Proctor was connected to the devil. Obviously, Marry chose to live as a liar. Eventually, It was John Proctor’s turn to decide: to confess and lie or refuse and die. Struggling in a decision that drives people into craziness, John Proctor chose to refuse anything despite of being hanged.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is set in Salem in a Puritan community. John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, Reverend Hale, Reverend Paris, and Abigail are the main characters. The book is about witchcraft or what the town thinks is witchcraft. John Proctor is the tragic hero because he is loving, loyal, authoritative, but his tragic flaw is his temper.
John Proctor plays the leading role in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. He was persistent, honest, and full of integrity. He was simply, a man with pride. A wise woman once said, "Do what you feel in your heart to be right--for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." (Eleanor Roosevelt). Proctor was the protagonist of the dramatic piece of literature.
John Proctor is a good man. He is a puritan, a husband, a citizen, and an all around valuable member of the community. All of this is represented by his name. The name of John Proctor could be considered his most prized possession. It is his most priceless asset. Proctor is very strong-willed and caring. He does not set out with any intentions of hurting anyone. He is a farmer and village commoner who is faced with incredible inner turmoil. He has committed adultery and had absolutely no intentions of joining in the witch trials. After his wife got involved and eventually was set free due to the fact that she was pregnant, he feels that he can't sit back and accept what is happening to the town. John Proctor is a good and noble man and because of this he believes that he can't be hanged and die a martyr when he has this sin blooming over him every waking moment.
John Proctor: “God in heaven, what is John Proctor, what is John Proctor”. John is a man of strong moral beliefs, concerned only for the safety of his family and personal welfare. He cares of nothing for the beliefs of any of the other people in the town and what his supervisor which is the Reverend, thinks either. After trying to avoid involvement in the witch trials he is later prosecuted for witchery and sentenced to hang. John trys to avoid any involvement in the Salem witch trials. His reason for doing so is to protect his image because he is afraid he will be committed of adultery with Abigail Williams. Following these events he trys to save everyone’s lives by admitting to this horrible offense adultery and ends up losing the trial along with his life. He did have a chance to live but instead of signing away his name and his soul to keep his life, he wanted to die honorably with his friends not without a name, a soul, and with guilt. “John Proctors decision to die is reasonable and believable”. Reverend Parris, the Salem minister and Proctors immediate supervisor, which says “ there is either obedience or the church will burn like hell is burning.” “The church in theocratic Salem is identical with the state and the community and will surely crumble if unquestioning obedience falters in the least.” Proctor, on the other hand, “has come to regard his self as a king of fraud,” as long as he remains obedient to an authority which he cannot respect.
The primary dramatic focus in the play The Crucible is the moral struggle of its protagonist, John Proctor. Certain characteristics of John Proctor's character and also the environment of the Puritanical Salem alleviated this problem for him. The main issues running through out the play are a series of dilemmas that John Proctor faces. The first and foremost of these is his guilt over his adulterous affair with Abigail Williams, the second his hesitation to testify against Abigail to bring out the truth and the third, his final decision to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Throughout the whole play, John Proctor placed himself as a “servant” of God only and maintained that position regardless of what happened. He represented the image of a person that corresponded for God in Earth, and at the same time he acted consciously and knew what was happening in Salem. In an attempt to disengage from God, his principles, conscience, and morality acted upon him and brought him back to God. Elizabeth and his friends also affected his conscience, as the only reason why he went to the court was to try to release them. John Proctor can be considered the savior of Salem, he can be considered Jesus in that story. His name was important as it was the main reason why he decided to die with dignity instead of live for a lie; but what is the symbolism behind his name? What is conscience and why does John Proctor struggle with his?
“How do you call Heaven! Whore! Whore!” This quote is said by John Proctor, a character from the Crucible, while he was in court. John was in court testifying against Abigail
Is any man really a good man? In The Crucible, a group of girls were supposedly practicing witchcraft in the woods. The group of girls starts accusing innocent people because they got caught. Abigail is the main person accusing people. She accuses Elizabeth Proctor, which is John Proctors wife. When people were accused they could either confess or they would be killed. If they confessed they could live. Abigail accused Elizabeth Proctor because she wanted to be with John Proctor. John Proctor is a good man because he stops giving in to Abigail, he fights for his family, and he puts everyone before him.
In Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”, John Proctor demonstrates the traits of a good person. To be good, one must have a measure or definition of what is good. “Good” will be defined as what helps a group, and “evil” will be defined as what harms the group. John is good because he tries to stop people from being hanged, thus benefiting the group of townspeople. John is also good because he tries to stop the court from unjust hangings. Although this harms the court and the church, and can be viewed as evil, from the perspective of the town and the people in it, this is good because it saves people from being hanged. John Proctor is a good person.
Being a persecuted man Arthur Miller understood the paramount importance of resisting a despotic society that is compelled to trifle the rights of individual persons for standing out as non conformists or undesired outliers from the general populace. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller effectively parallels the paranoid style of life of the early Puritan culture of 17th century of New England during the witch trials, with his own modern era of paranoia in the 20th century Red Scare. Like Miller, John Proctor, a well respected farmer and husband of 1692 Salem was a man who broke the mold of his paranoid society and challenged the powers that be. Arthur Miller had a fixation for tragic heroes as he makes perfectly clear
In the novel “The Crucible” I consider the character John Proctor the tragic hero of the story. A tragic
John Proctor faces many decisions in response to his moral dilemma to try to save his life. One of the difficult decisions John makes is to reveal that he had an affair with Abigail Williams and thereby has committed adultery. If the local court convicts him of this crime, he faces being jailed. Also by admitting this crime, John reveals a weakness in his character. This flaw in his personality will make it harder for him to stand up in the community as an honorable and believable person. In trying to convince others that witchcraft does not exist John’s dishonesty with his wife will make him less convincing to the community.