Characters Character List. Read an in-depth analysis of John Proctor. Reverend John Hale A young minister reputed to be an expert on witchcraft. Francis Nurse A wealthy, influential man in Salem. Judge Danforth The deputy governor of Massachusetts and the presiding judge at the witch trials.
Giles Corey An elderly but feisty farmer in Salem, famous for his tendency to file lawsuits. Read an in-depth analysis of Giles Corey.
Read an in-depth analysis of Mary Warren. Ezekiel Cheever A man from Salem who acts as clerk of the court during the witch trials. Judge Hathorne A judge who presides, along with Danforth, over the witch trials.
Herrick The marshal of Salem. Next section John Proctor. Popular pages: The Crucible. Take a Study Break. Symbols All Symbols. Theme Wheel. Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. A farmer, and the husband of Elizabeth. Proctor had an affair with Abigail Williams while she worked as a servant in his house. A powerful man in both build and character, Proctor refuses to follow people he considers hypocrites, including Reverend Parris.
Feared and resented by the many people in Salem he has made feel foolish, Proctor has a powerful sense of personal integrity. For this reason, his affair with Abigail makes him see himself as a hypocrite. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:.
Act 1 Quotes. I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire and bloody damnation. Take it to heart, Mr. There are many others who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more. Related Themes: Puritanism and Individuality. Page Number and Citation : 27 Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!
And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! Page Number and Citation : 22 Cite this Quote. Act 2 Quotes. I'll plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!
Related Themes: Reputation and Integrity. Page Number and Citation : 59 Cite this Quote. I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby.
I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it. Page Number and Citation : 62 Cite this Quote. I'll tell you what's walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!
This warrant's vengeance! I'll not give my wife to vengeance! Page Number and Citation : 73 Cite this Quote. Act 3 Quotes. A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now. I beg you, sir, I beg you—see her what she is. She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. He is caged by guilt. The emotional weight of the play rests on Proctor's quest to regain his lost self-image, his lost goodness.
In fact, it is his journey from guilt to redemption that forms the central spine of The Crucible. John Proctor is a classic Arthur Miller hero: a dude who struggles with the incompatibility of his actions with his self-image. 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.
Elizabeth was sick while Abigail was working for the Proctors, so she probably wasn't giving her husband much, erm, attention. But probably the cause of John's transgression is much deeper than base physical reasons. It's also quite possible that John Proctor was attracted to Abigail's subversive personality. Miller seems to hint at this in the first scene where we see them together. Abigail tells John that all the hullabaloo about witches isn't true. She and the other girls were just in the woods having a dance party with Tituba.
Miller writes:. The key clue here is the stage direction. It seems to indicate that Proctor is amused and charmed by Abigail's naughty antics. This would be in keeping with his personality. We see him challenging authority, from Parris to Danforth, throughout the play.
John Proctor is a passive protagonist; for the first two acts, he does little to affect the main action of the play. Read more on this in our "Character Roles" section. By the time Act III rolls around, however, he's all fired up.
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. Proctor goes to court armed with three main weapons. By refusing to give up his personal integrity Proctor implicitly proclaims his conviction that such integrity will bring him to heaven. He goes to the gallows redeemed for his earlier sins. God forbid I take it from him! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook.
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