Essays on John Proctor

In the Crucible, I believe that it was both Abigail and John Proctor who were responsible for the deaths of the people who were wrongly convicted and hanged. Throughout the story, both of them were denying the truth, and basically lying about everything. Abigail basically...

Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible is centered around the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. Many people in the play are convicted for practicing witchcraft and are thereafter sentenced to hang; one such character is John Proctor. Many of those convicted are able to escape death...

According to the ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle, his definition of a tragic hero is a man of noble stature. “He’s not an ordinary man, but a man with outstanding quality and greatness about him. His own destruction is for a greater cause or principle”(Aristotle). In...