The Crucible

John Proctor does not have a high status in town but he is known to be a respectable man. Just like everyone else John has his own flaws. He has committed a rather large sin, adultery. He hides his sin and doing this he has become a liar and a very prideful man, which is a disgrace.

John is a tragic hero in this story, The Crucible. The downfall to the character is pride just like Oedipus. John loved is his name more then he loved his wife. It took him till the end of the story, when his wife was convicted, to confess his sin. Oedipus thought he was the biggest and strongest man and he wanted everyone to think so to. John did not want people to know about his flaw because he would be a hypocrite to them. John despised hypocrites; he thought they were lower then him.

John waited to long to confess hi sin. He knew the entire time that it would help the court. He did not care for the towns people's families. He only cared when it came to his family being accused. "But God I surely love." Proctor said this while trying to save hi wife. If he loved God so He would confess then and forget about having his name. It does not matter what is left on this Earth when you leave, it is where you go when you leave. Danforth asked Proctor, "You are in all respects a Gospel Christian?" and Proctor answered, "I am, sir." Proctor is lying to save his wife instead of confessing. He is not supposed to live on the Earth for himself; he is here to live for the Lord. "He is a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time, but against his own vision of decent conduct. These people had no ritual for the washing away of sins".

**(Off topic)When John became angry he makes sarcastic gestures. He felt that when things were not going his way he had to ridicule that person. "There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it." He felt like these people were lower and