John proctors death
John proctor’s deathIn many ways, people and circumstances could be blamed for the death of John Proctor. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible tells a tale of the innocent deaths of the 17 convicted witches in the famous Salem witch trials in 1692. Though people have tried to pin one person to the blame and cause of these deaths (including John Proctors), many are to accuse.
The Puritan religion was most significant for the blame of John Proctors decadence throughout the play. Alone, John had enough of his own problems with his wife Elizabeth who was cold and unloving, and also with Abigail and his affair. Being that the Puritan religion is strict in its ways and very much God enjoining, Johns refusal to go to church because of various reasons such as his farm work and his hatred for the sermons’ talk of hell all the time, already turned the noses of the ministers, church goers, and governing body of the town. As John quoted “God is dead”, this was how corrupt he felt the church was and this was why society hated John Proctor.
It is known that John had brought a lot of this adversity on himself. He chose to hang rather than save himself at the expense of others. He hated hypocrisy, and his hidden sin caused him a great deal of moral pain. He hesitated to expose Abigail as a fraud because he knew his own conscience was unclean. He did not try...
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