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Josh Chen English Honors 10A Ms. Lin 29 October, 2014 Proctor’s Path In The Crucible, Arthur Miller traced the path of the protagonist, John Proctor, in his quest for redemption. At first, Proctor was plagued with guilt and doubt after he committed adultery with Abigail. However, as the play progressed, Proctor started down the path to salvation by confronting his sins with his wife. Finally, in the last act, Proctor was able to regain his self-respect and his own forgiveness, finding the relief of vindication in himself. Proctor’s character change through The Crucible was portrayed in three stages: destitution, progress, and resolution. In the beginning, Proctor was devastated by his adultery with Abigail. He judged himself as “a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time, but against his own vision of decent conduct” (Miller 20). According to the moral fashions of the rigid Puritan society, indulging in sex was considered highly immoral. Thus, under such a standard of this period, Proctor undoubtedly viewed himself as a serious sinner. Additionally, his adultery pitted him against his own views of conduct. Proctor used to be a well-respected man, one known for his distaste towards hypocrisy. However, the incident caused him to “come to regard himself as a kind of fraud” (Miller 21). By partaking in adultery, he was shaken down to the core, for he had done something that went against his principles, and, in effect, turned him into a hypocrite. The incident shattered his dignity, leaving behind only the shards of doubt and guilt. These feelings of uncertainty ate away at Proctor’s confidence and caused him to lose respect for himself. It was under this condition that Proctor entered the play: wrecked with guilt and uncertainty.

As the play progressed, Proctor’s began to pull out of his state of insecurity and guilt. Instead of harboring the guilt inside and allowing it to fester, Proctor decided to face it in an open confrontation with his wife: “[I am] every moment judged for lies as though I come into a court when I come into this house” (Miller 39). By relating their house to a court, Proctor viewed himself as a criminal, and in doing so, compared his guilt to that of a convict. This point of view revealed the level of remorse Proctor was experiencing, a level that was too much for him. It also shed light on the fact that Proctor was tired of being laden with guilt and insecurity every time he saw his wife. Elizabeth replied to the statement by saying, “I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you” (Miller 55). This response indicated the fact that John’s feelings of guilt did not stem from the outside, but rather from the inside. With the metaphor, Elizabeth conveyed to Proctor that she had already forgiven him, but it was he who kept on judging himself continuously. Realizing this, Proctor was able to take a significant step towards his goal of salvation. In Act Four, Proctor conquers the final hurdle on his path to redemption. When pressed to prosecute others of witchcraft in order to save himself, Proctor said, “I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another” (Miller 141) Proctor was asked to confirm the witchery of other people, and instead of going along, he refused to verify any of the names. He knew that the sin of consenting to the false confession was his own; he had no right to condemn other people along with it. In this act of defiance, Proctor began to recover his self-respect, for he had something just. Determined on this path of righteousness, Proctor refused and tore up the confession paper when asked to sign his name. He said to the officials: “for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs” (Miller 144). Using metaphor, Proctor expressed his belief that, although not enough to weave a banner with, the goodness that he finally found within himself was “white enough” to defy the court’s corruption. Armed with his newfound goodness, Proctor decided to do what he believed to be the moral choice –

to hang instead to cooperating with the court with its exploitations. By choosing to not to sign the paper, Proctor came to terms with his past sins. He forgave himself for wronging Elizabeth, and found goodness in himself once again. His decision also meant that he can die free and forgiven, despite his transgressions in life. Proctor finally found his salvation. John Proctor’s path to redemption was not only a set of character changes, but also a plot line central to The Crucible. This plot of self-forgiveness was captured in three stages. At first, Proctor was a man wrecked with guilt and self-doubt. In the second stage, however, he begins to recover his sense of self-respect, a feat marked by two events: his confrontation with his wife, and his confession to the public. In the final stage, Proctor emerged as a man with peace himself, for he found forgiveness and resolved his guilt. Proctor was a model of the Puritan community before his adultery with Abigail. He can be a model once again to the reader. With Proctor, Miller exemplified the path of a moral man and taught a lesson of redemption: guilt will always linger, unless one can find the strength to face one’s wrongdoings and to forgive oneself....