Examples Of John Proctor's Struggles In The Crucible

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Gregorio Hernandez Mrs. Bolaños The Struggle In the book The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Miller shows one of the characters named John Proctor struggle between good and evil throughout the story. The moral struggle in the story is to fight for the right thing even if society thinks it is the wrong thing to do. John Proctors moral struggle was trying to tell the truth and dying for it in the end, for what he thought was right. He was influenced to confess to witch craft, but decided not to because it was a sin to lie. He was going to tell the truth even if their society didn’t believe him. Therefore he struggled throughout the story trying to stand up for what is right. The struggle of Proctor telling the truth is shown in the story. He begins with telling his wife Elizabeth about what happened in Salem, but as she hears him she grows doubtful if he really is telling the truth. Miller shows Proctor in page 54 “Spare me! You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’. Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all …show more content…

Miller shows Procter trying to be honest and telling the truth. He displays this by Proctor confessing to the sin he has committed and casting his good name. Proctor does this to show people that he is telling the truth and try to save the life of his love one. Miller demonstrates Proctor doing this in page 110 “Oh, Francis, I wish you had some evil in you that you might know me! To Danforth: A man will not will not cast away his good name. You surely know that.” Proctor castes his good name to stand up for the truth and expose Abigail as the liar that she really is. He tries to convict her of fraud so she could stop with this absurdity of accusing others of witch craft. Proctor is slowly presenting himself standing up for the truth by telling them what really is happening even if people don’t believe him. He knows it is the right thing to do. He does all he can to convince the people that he is

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