The Crucible by Arthur Miller

months later and says that Abigail has stolen all his money and has left town and he feels

guilty for the people who were accused by her and hung because of it. He values his wife's love and the concerns of his children so he

wants to be a good man and to him the truth is very important in being a good man. Another part of the developing plot is that John Proctor

knows Abigail and her friends are lying, but he is afraid to say any thing because eight

months before he had and affair with Abigail and did not want to be seen by the town as a

lecher, which means wife cheater. Parris finds his niece Abigail Williams

and his daughter Betty along with his slave Tituba doing some dance in the forest. Proctor felt guilty about what he did in his past

with Abigail he decides that now he will save his name with his pride and refuses to sign

the confession.

In the end he had what he wanted most, integrity. The play also had a lot of suspense , I

kept wanting to hear the tapes to see what happened to the characters in the end, it was

never boring. Characterization:

I think the best character development is the one of John Proctor, a farmer that lived in the

town. My older

brother said the play "showed the same mentality of the German people during the

Holocaust", and when I understood what he meant I say that it is a lot like the part in the

movie Beauty and the Beast when the character Gaston makes every body crazy to kill the

Beast just because Gaston feels he is evil. We should also realize that being an

individual has bad effects sometimes and even though we might be right we have to be

brave when fighting society because we will not always win. The

growth of John Proctor is from some one who tries to find out who he is in the begging of

the play to a person that dies for what he believes in a society that wrongly accuses him.

This is all a lie though because once Abigail blamed Tituba she did not want to turn the

story around and admit that she was lying in the first place because one, she was afraid of

the consequences of such a strong lie, and two, because she saw it as an opportunity to

get rid of Elizabeth Proctor. The court does not

want to admit they were wrong though because they feel the people will rebel if they now

come out and say "sorry, we made a small mistake".