Is John Proctor A Tragic Hero In The Crucible

Elizabeth tries to convince John to go and tell Abigail that she sleeps around to much, but he would not do it. Elizabeth seems like she does not sincerely forgive him. However, I do not blame her for not sincerely forgiving him because if it was my husband who cheated on me I could never forgive him. Only Jesus can forgive people for their sins they have committed. Jesus died for all of our sins.

John cheated on his wife with Abigail, which is like a capital crime back in Salem. No one knew about this affair except John, Abigail, and his wife. They kept this a secret from the community to save John’s reputation. Even when Abigail was basically committing murder, John refused to expose her of her jealous behavior. Eventually, he did confess his affair, but it was too late and the court didn’t believe him.

John Proctor is basically the tragic hero of “The Crucible”, the reason for this is statement is because the tries to save his wife from being hanged. He cares about his children, he also has tried not to cheat on his wife Elizabeth, while she was ill. At the end of the story Proctor is hanged due of his confession of being a warlock. In the rising action of the story John Proctor is trying to avoid Abigail, he states that “But I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again.” (Proctor, 1140). This indicates that Proctor doesn’t want to make the same mistake, he does not want to cheat on his wife again. John doesn’t want to sin and go after Abigail, he wants to be a good man.

She goes on to have an affair with him, but never actually confronts Gatsby or Tom about this. She would prefer to just deal with her unhappy marriage by not confronting it because she doesn 't want to deal with the consequences. In reference to Myrtle Wilson’s slaughter, Nick and Gatsby have this exchange, “ ‘ Was Daisy driving’ ‘Yes,’ he said after a moment, ‘but of course I’ll say I was…” (143 Fitzgerald). Gatsby is yet another person who protects Daisy from any consequences she may face. Daisy accidentally runs over Myrtle Wilson, something ironic in and of itself because Myrtle having an affair with Daisy’s husband, in a fit of emotions that she can 't control, and then doesn 't have to deal with any of the repercussions because she is protected from the by the men in her life.

Don’t shoot him!” “Stay out of this, Murray,” [Will] said. Even though throughout the book Murray hated Sid, he decided to brave at the right moment and save his life whether he deserved it or not. Murray knew what was right and stopped his older brother from killing his arch nemesis. When Mr Barrett wanted Murray to shoot Paddy he knew he was disobeying his father. “[Murray] knew [his] father was looking at [him] but [he] refused to look up” Murray was brave but also cowardly in his own way.

This alternative motive is N’s guiltiness because he knows he was the one who slept with Angela, and yet she protected him and he did not say anything to save Santiago’s innocent soul. N selfishly let Santiago die because he knew that he, his family, and Angela would be criticized and put under much scrutiny if their secret was ever revealed. However, N feels a tremendous amount of guilt because his actions got someone killed, so he is writing this book and continuing the investigation of Santiago’s death: “my personal impression is that he died without understanding his death,”(Marquez 101). N he wants to give meaning and purpose to Santiago’s death, so that he can have a reason that will be able to comfort him through his life of guiltiness. N purposefully implemented himself as the narrator and the character of the story, so that it would be confusing to the “average” reader that the book was an attempt to confess his guiltiness.

He has sinned to protect his reputation and never confessed. He would act as if he didn’t know the witches were fake. “Aye, faint to prove to us how you pretended in the court so many times”(871) Parris is trying to prevent Proctor proving that witches aren’t real asking Mary Warren to faint in front of the court. John doesn’t want to ruin his reputation so he signed the confession papers then later rips it up. Proctor doesn’t want his name to be nailed to the church he has already confessed.

In other words George never wanted Lennie to be treated poorly or be harmed, he wanted Lennie to be cared for, but since he killed Curley's wife they are no out looking for him. George can no longer protect Lennie, he rather end his life with happy feelings, than to suffer a terrible death. To conclude, killing is justifiable when it is a better of two outcomes. If dying is inevitable the less painful way is preferred. Even though, killing morality wrong, when asked, most people would want painless way out.

Oedipus is informed why this plague is happening and he tries to find the solution as soon as possible. At this time Oedipus isn't really focused on finding a justice of his parents and he leaves that for another time ,but little does he know that all of the problems he has right now they are all connected with each other. Oedipus road to success to justice is not looking good . He finds out that the man he had killed out was actually his father and he was shocked because that also meant that he had married his mother. That caused for his mother to suicide herself and Oedipus get his eyes out.

This made him a Loyalist because he had strong negative opinions about war due to his past traumatic experiences with it. Tim would have expected Life to be the most safe one of their family due to his loyalty to Britain, but he was captured anyway. The death of Life Meeker makes Tim develop a strong hatred toward the Loyalists due to the fact that they do not value loyalty or care about the innocent, such as this instance. Tis develops Tim’s final decision of neutrality is influenced by Jerry’s death because both the British and Patriots caused the death of the ones he cared most