John is a vainglorious man, but love makes him brave to face his sin. This is also one of the biggest severe tests John confronts. John died for his name, and many other reasons. He is a man of pride. John is given a chance to confess himself of witchery.
He feels like he’s failed because he cannot prove that the condemned are innocent. The only thing he could do to help them is to convince them to sin. He tries to convince Proctor and the others to lie and say that they’ve seen and talked with the devil himself in order to save their lives. In the end he couldn’t force Proctor to lie which hurt Hale deeply. The day of the hanging of Proctor had come and Hale tries one last time.
He even recognized this, himself, earlier in his retelling: “I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer” (113). Time and time again, Frankenstein justified his complete inaction regarding the safety of his family with statements like, “I thought of pursuing the devil, but it would have been in vain” (99), or when it came to saving Justine from her execution, “a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me” (103). Christopher LaGant English 208 (005)
Earth, air, water and fire; the four elements that frame the world in every being, come together in a destructive way to challenge and ultimately engulf Robert Ross. In the fifth century B.C, there lived a Greek philosopher named Empedocles. He was well known in Sicily as a scientist and healer who stated that all matter is composed of four roots. To him, air and fire ere outward elements, whereas earth and water are inward. He also associated the elements with Greek gods and goddesses that best represented the elements best.
Towards the end of Act 3 John was accused of compacting with Satan. He was then sentenced to hang. However he was given a chance to live, by confessing to have worked with the devil and sign his name to show at the nearby church. Because he had to sign his name the only thing he had left he didn’t sign and was not going to damn his name, but to honor God by not lying. For that John Proctor had great character by forgetting his past and becoming a godly example and for that he should be considered a main character.
Exemplified when he did not become king when King Hygelac died, but became guardian over Hygelac's son to guide the ruling of the country. Then when Hygelac's son was killed in battle, he assumed the rightful place as king. In this community, leaders honor debts and obligations doing what is right and necessary to make it a better place. During this period, one of the worst crimes that demanded retaliation was the killing of individuals in the community. His understanding of personalities made him powerful.
John Proctor – John is an honest, blunt-spoken, good man with a temper. His affair with Miss Williams, creates her jealousy of his wife, which causes the whole witch hysteria. Proctor realises he can stop Abigail but only if he confesses to his adultery. Confessing to this would ruin his good name, he is a proud man who puts great emphasis on his reputation. Eventually he makes an attempt, through Mary Warren’s testimony, to name Abigail as a fraud without revealing crucial information about the affair.
When he decided to choose the latter, it was transparent that the trails had changed him drastically as he appeared to be a stubborn man in the beginning. By the end, Proctor chose to die in the most righteous way. In the beginning, Proctor could be described as stubborn and somewhat selfish, but by the end of it, he was anything but these qualities. The characters who were wrongfully accused were symbolic to an actual crucible and the trials that they been through was a furnace where we are expected to tell the “truth” when the trials itself is based on false accusations. In conclusion, The Crucible was an excellent title for the play.
Beowulf brags about his many, many battles, even in his later years. Beowulf was not only a brave, arrogant fighter, but he was also a traveler. An epic hero is one that is prepared at all times to do as commanded. “So Beowulf chose the mightiest men he could find, the bravest and best of the Geats, fourteen in all and led them down to their boat; he knew the sea, would point the
First of all he should have a great personality. Someone who makes me smile and make