This quote proves that he is really a Christian because he confesses his sins to God. It shows that he has strong convictions of his religion and he really believes. “Mary, God dams all liars" (Miller 263)! This quote shows that Proctor tries to get Mary to confess her sins because of his beliefs in God. He was trying to scare her to get the truth out of her.
The Crucible: Prompt 4 In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, John Proctor is a very multifaceted character. He is, as I see it, a tragic hero. He has sinned by the laws of the church that rules by a theocracy in his town, and yet also yearns until his last breath to make the decisions a good man would in order to set things right in his town. Throughout Acts I and II, John hides his past affair with Abigail Williams, a previous servant of his household. Abigail tries to get him to come back to her constantly, but John gives his love to his wife Elizabeth Proctor and shuts Abigail away.
Initially his voice of reason implores to the conscience of the reader to “deliberate honestly and thoughtfully”. Although the foreman is perceived as speaking to the jury here, Rose writes in such a way that his words are also directed at the audience. This can be deduced from the foreman’s appeals that if “there is any reasonable doubt” a “verdict of not guilty” must be brought forth. Leading this charge is Juror 8. Although unsupported at the beginning, he is devoted to justice, and is initially sympathetic toward the 19-year-old defendant.
Garrett McGrath The Crucibles 1/07/11 In Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” the character John Hale goes from being a blind reverend to a guilt-filled, open human being. He goes from believing everything the girls say at the beginning of the book, to seeing that they are telling lies at the end of the book. John Hale is one of the most complex characters in the novel and has the most drastic change amongst all the other characters. At the beginning of the novel reverend hale is the most confident man he believes that he can tell a witch from a puritan, no questions asked. He had all the books on how to do this, he believed he was above and beyond prepared for the witch trials and was going to take them down.
I love how this story and the last 2 stories, Things Fall Apart and Marriage Is a Private Affair, all share the common theme of embracing Christianity. Eastman's "From the Deep Woods to Civilization” seems to embrace the religion much more so, however there are still questions as to why the Indian people should follow the ways of those who stole from them. The Indians also question why the Whiteman does not even follow their own religion faithfully so why should they? They feel that the second coming of Jesus Christ will punish the white man for failing to carry out His teachings. Throughout the story, Eastman challenges racism by comparing the values of white middle- and upper-middle-class men, as well as stereotypes of Native men.
This helps him find a way to cope with them may help you understand yourself more effectively. John is a man of strong moral beliefs any way he or she look at him, concerned only for the safety of his family and personal welfare. John Proctor is a big and strong man. He’s a man that everyone in the town looked up to. He is a loving husband, a hard working farmer, a proud father, and most important a faithful Christian.
King is patient and understanding to the criticism and views of his fellow clergymen. He seeks to find common ground with the clergymen; he politely and respectfully argues every point they bring up. He does not lose his temper but simply asks them to walk a mile in his shoes to understand why he needed to heard. He patiently lays out all reason why he was fighting to end a battle that had lasted more than three hundred and sixty years. King does not take insult to the clergymen’s criticism but he gently counter argues every point they bring up.
Robert Harsh, for example, declares in ‘Exposing the Lie: Inherit the Wind’ that "Christians, particularly William Jennings Bryan, are consistently lampooned throughout, while the skeptics and agnostics are consistently portrayed as intelligent, kindly, and even heroic. I simply cannot escape the conclusion that the writers of the screen play never intended to write a historically accurate account of the Scopes trial, nor did they seriously attempt to portray the principal characters and their beliefs in an unbiased and accurate way." Another perspective of critical sentiment is voiced by Carol Inannone in ’First Things’ when she states that "Inherit the Wind reveals a great deal about a mentality that demands open-mindedness and excoriates dogmatism, only to advance its own certainties more insistently... A more historically accurate dramatization of the Scopes Trial might have been far richer and more interesting - and might also have given its audiences a genuine dramatic tragedy to watch. It would not have sent its audience home full of moral superiority and happy thoughts about the march of progress." And so the film has had its share of controversy and
Said Giles (78). The reverend accepted the accused as guilty to keep the towns people happy and on his side. He allowed the non-guilty to be hung, and out of that he got land, money, and respect from the towns people. Matthew 22:37-40, “And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.
Atticus is one of the best lawyers in the town of Maycomb; he is an excellent role model for many people to look up to. Even though most of Maycomb has put him down by calling him cruel names, he still dug up courage to defend Tom Robinson and the fight to see if he raped Mayella. Jem asked Atticus what he thought was going to happen and whether or not he was going to win, Atticus then said no, that was because “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win,”(78). This shows determination and to still fight for what you think is right even if you already know you are going to lose. Notwithstanding, he already knew he was fighting a war with no gun, and had "after losing the case, which he surely should have won, Maycomb still chose to put him down quoting, “he's turned out a nigger-lover we'll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb again.