John Proctor the Tragic Protagonist

In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the protagonist hindquarters monitoring device is caught in the middle of the Salem witchery trials in 1692. The accusers be a pack of young girls led by Abigail, who wishes to be with john monitor lizard by having his married woman hanged at the gallows. backside invigilate attempts to bring an end to the lies and subversive activity spawned by Abigail and her group of followers.Trough these attempts to bring justice to the accost of Salem, his efforts to economize his his wife Elizabeth Proctor from being hanged for witchery, and through his perseverance to protect the honor of his remark by not falsely admitting to witchcraft, John Proctor establishes himself as The Crucibles sad hero. John Proctor realizes the girls making bangs of witchcraft in Salem are lying and pretending. Proctor first learns of bloody shame Warren, his servant, who making false accusation in the romance.John proctor realizes Mary Warren and Abigail, the wom en John proctor had an affair with, are conspiring to have Elizabeth hanged for witchcraft. Proctor realizes this when Mary Warren makes a poppet for Elizabeth that mimics a voodoo doll and lands Elizabeth an arrest for witchcraft. This when John Proctor decides to go to court to invent the uprightness. In court season difficult to accuse the girls of lying, Mary Warren puts on act to make the court think John is bewitching her, and he ends up being incriminate himself.This is a tragic quality of The Crucible because John Proctor in the act of trying to go along his wifes life and expose the truth gets himself convicted of the very same(p) crime. Proctors wife, Elizabeth Proctor, is accused of witchcraft by Abigail, who claims she used a voodoo doll on her. Mary Warren had constructed the doll in court and John Proctor knows this and wishes to save his wifes life. He argues with Mary Warren and forces her to testify to the court that the girls were all lying. Mary Warren ends up testifying and then turning on Proctor accusing him of witchcraft.Proctor denies his charge of witchcraft and even shames himself by admitting to the court having had committed lechery with Abigail. The Court brings out Elizabeth to confirm John Proctors apology of lechery. Thinking to protect her husband she denies it to the court. This is tragic because in trying save Elizabeth John himself becomes accused and in Elizabeths lead to save her husbands image she only further convinces the Judge to arrest John Proctor. When John Proctor is accused of witchcraft, he denies all charges and his thrown in jail. He his marked to be hung.On the day of his hanging he is persuaded by Elizabeth and his own conscience to confess in order to save his life. He confesses to the judge and his confession is copied onto a confession statement to be posted on the church service. John Proctor does not want his confession posted on the church because he wants his name to retain its honor, in parti cular since he has a family and children. He is told unless his confession is posted on the church it wont be accepted. John Proctor in a second gear of self righteousness decides to uphold his honor and denies the charge of witchcraft and allows himself to be hanged in the gallows.Tragedy strikes here because a good person dies while evil prevails. These events show that John Proctor is a tragic hero. He is an honest man and when he realizes the seriousness of girls lies he acts to bring truth to the court. He tries to protect his wife from certain death and instead receives the same fate she does. Finally Proctor tries to salvage his name out of the wreckage of the witchcraft trials but cannot do so without dying. These are all examples of why John Proctor is truly The Crucibles tragic hero.