CRUCIBLE CHARCTER ANALYSIS

I did my character analysis on John Proctor. John Proctor is the main character in the play, the crucible. He is a few different types of character, he is considered, the Tragic Hero, and the Protagonist. He is a well respected and, for the most part, easy to get along with guy. He is by no means a saint though. He slept with another chart er in the play, Abigail Williams, even though he was already married and had children. This act, in a sense, is what starts the chain of events in the play, even though we never see this take place, it is just understood. Abigail tries to have John for herself by making a spell, which Parris (Abigail's uncle) sees. This is what starts the witch trials. Eventually Johns wife, Elizabeth, gets accused and John takes his friends to try and save his, and their, wives. Ultimately, he is accused of witch craft and get sent to jail, but he won't confess to it in the end, and is hanged.

Motivation
For the first act of the play, John Proctor seems to have close to, if not, nothing to do with the play. As you get into Act II of the play, you start to see what John is going to do in the play. His wife gets arrested, so like any man he's going to save her. This is his motivation for most of the play. After he gets arrested, and is about to be hanged, he signs a confession to save his own life.He rips it up after the high judges says he's going to post it on the church doors. His motivation for doing this is to save his own name. Which ultimately gets him killed. But he dies a good, Christian man.

TRAITS

• Bold
• Respected
• Courageous
• Proud

-Bold-
John Proctor shows in many ways that he isn't someone that will be easily messed with. He tells everyone that attempts to, in a sense, screw off. We learn to understand that Parris has tried this, before the play began, and won't do it again. Another way of showing this is when he signs the confession and won't let Danforth post it, so he rips it up, right in front of Danforth.
"You will not use me!...I am John Proctor! You will not use me!"

-Respected-
John is also probably the most well respected man in Salem at the time this play took place. Wherever he goes people show him respect. When he walks into the town, everyone know not to mess with John Proctor. His name is widely known, and respected. Even when Hale comes he learns, practically right away to respect Proctor. Proctor doesn't take it very well if someone isn't respectful towards him either.

-Courageous-
Proctor is a very courageous man. One of the many ways we are able to see this is when he goes to confront the court about the hangings, after Elizabeth was taken into custody. He makes Mary Warren go into the court and tell everyone there what she knows about Abigail. Another way we see his courage is when he is about to die and can only be saved by signing a confession to witchcraft. He does sign it, but then shortly after rips it up in front of Danforth, even though he knew it meant death.

-Proud-
John proctor has made a name for himself in Salem and he knows it. He's very proud of who he is and what he's done. He shows it in a few different ways. He really shows it around Putnam and Parris. He doesn't let them tell him what to do, or how to do it. He tells them that he is John Proctor and won't be pushed around by people who seek power when John already has it.

"You will not use me! I am John Proctor. You will not use me!"

-Character Type-
John Proctor is definitely a round character. He never strays from his main objective in the story which is to get the witchcraft nonsense to stop, and save his wife, (and friends wives) from hanging. Throughout the whole play he is constantly telling about how there isn't any witchcraft in Salem, and that everyone is just going crazy for no good reason.

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