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This 4 page paper discusses Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" and argues that John Proctor chooses death rather than swearing to a lie, in the hope that he will save his reputation and also show Salem that the Witch Trials are morally repugnant.. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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story of the Salem witch trials is indicative of its power, or perhaps they are just disturbed by the idea that lies, stupidity, jealousy and venality could send a good
man to his death. This paper discusses the play with regard to John Proctors moral dilemma and the choices he makes. It argues that John Proctor makes a calculated decision
to surrender his life rather than saving it by swearing to a lie, and that he takes this course of action in the hope that it will bring Salem to
its senses and stop the moral rot of the colony. Discussion of the Play and Proctors Dilemma The play is set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the late 1500s;
specifically, in Salem during the Witch Trials. Salem is a closed, repressed, and consequently dysfunctional society. And in this society, John Proctor, who is a good man, has made a
mistake. Hes had an affair with a young woman, Abigail Williams, described as "seventeen ... a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling" (Miller, 1959, p.
487). ("Dissembling" means "lying.") She is convinced that she can get John to leave his wife for her, and sets out to accomplish that by having Johns wife Elizabeth condemned
as a witch. As the play progresses, suspicion grows on all sides, until the only way to stop the madness is for John to tell the truth: that he and
Abigail were lovers, and that she is lying in court to condemn Elizabeth. Abigail replies to the charge by putting on an act that makes it seem as though spirits
are loose in the courtroom, and the other girls there join in the hysteria. Finally, Elizabeth is brought in and asked why she told Abigail, who was their servant, to
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