He does not want to be involved in the court probe about witchcraft but at the end he has to do so. He does not believe in it and takes it as an irrational act. John Proctor retains a very strict attitude towards witchcraft.

Significance of the Title of Arthur Miller’s Novel, The Crucible.

And this guilt forces him to take positive action at the right moment and consequently suffers a great loss of his life. Miller, himself, says in his introduction of the play that he wants to draw the image of ‘a guilt ridden man’ who has a sense of guilt that he has betrayed his wife, Elizabeth by playing adultery with Abigail, who is a very cunning fraudulent girl. “The attention of the playwright is on Proctor’s moral choice.” He is a blunt, stubborn countryman, though not excessively sensitive yet capable of being tender, especially towards women According to John Mahonery:

Miller also shows very skillfully Proctor’s attitude towards Puritans, witchcraft, court and toward his friends in the end when he was going to be punished for being a witch.Īlthough, Proctor is the central figure yet he has been idealized as a hero.

Miller gives very delicate touches in digging the subtle ties of Proctor’s relationship with his wife, Elizabeth and Abigail. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, John Proctor is the central character and the protagonist of the play. “John Proctor stands unique amongst Miller’s creation not because of any inherent superiority but because of the intensity of his moral response.”

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