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Character Analysis of John Proctor
During the mid 1950’s, Senator Joe McCarthy led a campaign to expose alleged Communists in the State Department. Many called it a witch-hunt. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, the small town of Salem is engulfed in hysteria due to the accusations of children that m ....
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.... were like coals and his fingers claw my neck and I sign, I sign…”(119). Thus John Proctor fails in trying to rescue his wife from the clutches of the false accusers, in Proctor establishes that the children are lying in court with respect to their accusations of the townspeople. Proctor first learns of this through his household servant, Mary Warren who is one of the accusers. Proctor deducts from the events that Mary Warren and Abigail, the lead conspirator, are in cahoots in trying to kill Proctor’s wife by accusing her of witchcraft. They come up with the idea of what is basically ....
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