John Proctor The character John Proctor plays many significant roles in the Arthur Miller play "The Crucible." "The Crucible" is a book showing similarities between the Salem witch-hunts and McCarthyism of the 1950’s. Proctor was a man that was wrongfully accused of witchcraft just like many people in the 1950’s who were blacklisted because they were accused of having something to do with Communism. John Proctor was a farmer who did not agree with his …showed first 75 words of 719 total…

…showed last 75 words of 719 total…to walk like men in the world, and I sold my friends?" (132). This act shows John’s strong sense of righteousness. By not giving up names and dying without guilt, shows the true quality of a tragic hero. John Proctor was a man of morals. Although he had committed adultery, he had confessed and begged forgiveness. He was also a man who stood up for what he believed in and would not be pushed around.