John Proctors Three Struggles

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John Proctors Three Struggles

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John Proctors Three Struggles

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"John Proctor's Struggles"

In the drama, "The Crucible" the reader witnesses several
characters that undergo different struggles. John Proctor goes through three
different struggles in the drama. The three struggles that John goes through
are; the stopping of his affair with Abigail, does john go to court, and johns
decision to live and tell the truth or to die and to tell a lie.

The first struggles that the reader sees is John trying to stop his love
affair with Abigail. John had a secrete love affair with a young girl named
Abigail Williams, after a period of time his wife began to suspect relations
were happening between her husband and Abigail. Elizabeth, in every effort to
stop the relationship dismissed Abigail from her duties and order John to stop
seeing Abigail. John met Abigail once more in the wood where Abigail tried to
convince Proctor that he really loved her and not his wife, Elizabeth. During
the meeting in the woods with Abigail John tells Abigail, "Abby, I may
think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I'll
ever reach for you again." This quote is from the drama, "The
Crucible" by Miller on page 23. In this quote Proctor implies that he does
still think about Abigail but he will almost any thing to never touch her again.
This is an example of Proctors first struggle he shows his wife Elizabeth that
the love affair is over with but he still does think about seeing Abigail again.
John struggles with this because he knows he loves his wife and the children
they had together but he also is still in very much lust of Abigail. Another
source that shows how John struggled was, "John has the will power to
resist Abigail now, even while part of him still desires her." This quote
is from secondary source, " Arthur Miller Dramatist" by Murray on page
63. This is another great example of how John is struggling with the letting of
his affair with Abigail. In the quote is tells how John is now physically able
to resist Abigail and to stay away from her but in his mind John still thinks
secretly of Abigail, John still desires Abigail.

The second struggle that Proctor shows in the drama is whether he will go to
court or not and expose Abigail. Because of John's affair with Abigail he knows
that she is lying to the courts about Elizabeth being a witch. Abigail calls out
witch craft on Elizabeth Proctor because ...

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