This would stain her now saintly reputation and discredit her in the eyes of the court. Last (but not least) he's prepared to admit that he and Abigail had an affair. Also, he has Mary Warren's testimony that she and the other girls have been faking everything. There's Abigail's admission to him that there was no witchcraft. Proctor goes to court armed with three main weapons. Spurred by his wife's arrest, he marches off to stop the spiraling insanity of the witch trials-and hopefully regain his own integrity in the process. (Read more on this in our "Character Roles" section.) By the time Act III rolls around, however, he's all fired up. John Proctor is a passive protagonist for the first two acts, he does little to affect the main action of the play. We see him challenging authority, from Parris to Danforth, throughout the play. This would be in keeping with his personality. It seems to indicate that Proctor is amused and charmed by Abigail's naughty antics. The key clue here is the stage direction. PROCTOR, his smile widening: Ah, you're wicked yet aren't y'! You'll be clapped in the stocks before you're twenty. She and the other girls were just in the woods having a dance party with Tituba. Abigail tells John that all the hullabaloo about witches isn't true. Miller seems to hint at this in the first scene where we see them together. It's also quite possible that John Proctor was attracted to Abigail's subversive personality. Elizabeth was sick while Abigail was working for the Proctors, so she probably wasn't giving her husband much, erm, attention.īut probably the cause of John's transgression is much deeper than base physical reasons. Well, apparently John's wife Elizabeth was a little frigid (which she even admits), and when tempted by the fiery, young Abigail, John just couldn't resist. (Willy Loman of Death of a Salesman, Eddie Carbone of A View From the Bridge, and Joe Keller of All My Sons all have similar issues.) Why the Fall?Īdultery? Lechery? John, what got into you? John Proctor is a classic Arthur Miller hero: a dude who struggles with the incompatibility of his actions with his self-image. In fact, it is his journey from guilt to redemption that forms the central spine of The Crucible. The emotional weight of the play rests on Proctor's quest to regain his lost self-image, his lost goodness. When we first meet John Proctor halfway through Act I, we discover a man who has become the thing he hates most in the world: a hypocrite. All it took was one shameful encounter to destroy John's most prized possession: his self-respect. To make things worse, it was also lechery (Proctor was in his thirties and Abigail was just seventeen-yuck).
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John made the mistake of committing adultery with her. Proctor was super ill, btw) and, before he knew it, his good life was bad, bad, bad. This saucy young housekeeper traipsed in to John's life (while Mrs. Most importantly, John Proctor respected himself.Įnter: Abigail, the play's antagonist. He took pleasure in exposing hypocrisy and was respected for it. Around town, his name was synonymous with honor and integrity. Proctor was a stand-up guy who spoke his mind.
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Back in the day, he had everything your average Puritan man could want: a farm to ceaselessly toil upon, three sons to discipline, and a wife to make a home with. John Proctor, The Crucible's protagonist, has some major issues. (Hi, John!) He cheats on his wife, he can't remember the entire ten commandments even though he goes to church pretty much every week, he's more stubborn than a mule, and he's angry pretty much 100% of the time.
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