The Crucible John Proctor Reputation

In the crucible, there are characters who are concerned with their reputation in the town called Salem. Some of these characters are John Proctor, Abigail Williams, and Reverend Parris. John Proctor is a farmer in his middle thirties. Proctor was a kindest man, powerful of body, even tempered, and not easily led. Abigail Williams was a young woman and former maid for John and Elizabeth Proctor who was fired and works as Reverend Parris’s maid. Reverend Parris was in his mid forties, his main goal was to gain the trust of everyone in Salem. These three characters have good names in the village until everything goes downhill when the girls are caught by Reverend Parris in the woods dancing.

First there is John Proctor, he was a man who lived with his wife and three children away from Salem. John and his wife wanted to live a normal life. John and his wife had issues since he had cheated on Elizabeth with Abigail and therefore being the reason why she lost her job as maid for the Proctor’s. John’s name in the village was good since he never did anything wrong to the people in Salem, the only thing that people didn’t like of him was that he attended church not so fluently giving the people ideas of him. Towards the middle of the story Abigail Williams brings in John

Parris is the main Reverend of the Salem church, he tells everyone in Salem verses of the bible. His name is clean in the beginning of the story since he is a Reverend of the village. He believes that there are people in Salem who are trying to ruin his name since people don’t like him being the main Reverend of Salem. Parris later finds out that his daughter is sick and showing signs of witchery, he doesn’t want his name blackened since she does live in a house of a Reverend so there should not be anything to do with the devil or witchcraft. He then lies to the Judge so that he can have his name