Proctor in The Crucible :: Arthur Miller

The Crucible In the The Crucible by Arthur Miller, justice is raped by the immorality of those who put to death for pleasure. Salem 1690s, an epidemic of accusations is going around the village. Women, Men and Children are accusing others of witchcraft. More than a dozen of girls fell ill, everything attributed to the devil. Men and Women are being killed by immoral accusations, some of them because of land disputes, but others because of forbidden passions. A forbidden passion between Proctor and Abigail leads into the tragedy of the play. Proctor is a man with a lot of moral problems, who always concerns only for the care of his family and social welfare. When avoiding his involvement in the trails of witchcraft, he is accused of witchery and sentenced to death. Arthur Miller shows us Proctor as a common farmer, who is honest, and respectable, who only cares for his family. Proctor lives in the town with his wife and their children. Nevertheless, as the play goes, Miller let s us know that Proctor has a probatory secret, an extramarital relation with Abigail Williams, relation that was over for Proctor, but not for Abigail. In the following passage Abigail tells Proctor, why she have it offs him I look for John Proctor that took me from my calmness and put knowledge in my heart I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was thought by altogether these christians women and their covenanted men and now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I allow for not, I cannot You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet.(page 177) Abigail does not want to believe that everything is over between her and Proctor. For Proctor everything is something of the past, while there issomething in him that makes him feel love for Abigail. On the other hand, for Abigail, Proctor is everything and will make everything possible to get his love. Love that will soon come a passion that will set the tragedy in the play. In addition, this engagement causes Elizabeth to not believe Proctor, which causes lack of communication between the matrimony. Proctor, who for seven months was trying to get Elizabeth trust again is tired of her suspicions, and tells that, Spare me you forget nothing and set free nothing. Learn charity, woman.