John Proctor's Confession In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

Unicorns don’t exist, BUT apparently WITCHCRAFT does!!!! The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a well known play that tells the tale of a small town, Salem, Massachusetts, where witchcraft is frowned upon. John Proctor, an infamous man of the town, had decided to destroy his confession about witchcraft at the end of the story. The Crucible has a few main characters such as Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Reverend Hale, Reverend Parris, and Mary Warren. Abigail Williams is a young girl who strives to get what she wants, even if it means sending everyone on a huge witch hunt and having people killed in the process. This is said in Act 1 page 202-205 “She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold,

“Would you give them such a lie?” said John Proctor to his wife. His plan was to confess to witchcraft in order to save his wife who everyone recently found out was pregnant. He tore up his confession in hopes of saving people. Between Abigail and his wife, Elizabeth, his decision to rid of his confession was half and half. “You will not use me! I am no Sarah Good or Tituba, I am John Proctor! You will not use me! It is no part of salvation that you should use me!”- said John Proctor as the court had wanted him to sign the confession. He signed the papers of confession in front of the court then ripped it up. All the court had truthfully asked him to do was to sign the confession sheet, which he did. Besides the obvious fact that he wanted to save his wife, he also wanted to save

Which either way they were but John Proctor didn’t want it to happen under his arms. Him confessing made him feel empowered over the court and people of his town. He was notorious for running the town and being the leader but as he confesses, that was all brought down. “DANFORTH: Why? Do you mean to deny this confession when you are free? PROCTOR: I mean to deny nothing!” As Danforth continues questioning Proctor, the statement still stands. John Proctor firmly had torn up the confession papers not only to save Elizabeth, Sarah Good, and many others who were accused. He wanted to save himself as well. His actions had taken ahold of the paper before his mind had a chance to change itself so that him, his wife, and his soon to be child could all live a happy life. Which resulted in the reasoning for tearing up his confession. Along with the fact that he wanted to get his wife out of the court and the prison as soon as possible and this was the quickest and easiest way to do