How Does John Proctor Tell The Truth In The Crucible

Arthur Miller’s novel, The Crucible, begins and end with John Proctor. It's called The Crucible to a trial to testify for those people would tell the truth. John Proctor played as a protagonist, who is the farmer in his mid-thirties. According to Miller, John has accused of practicing a witchcraft. Proctor is a good man because he tells the truth, save his wife, and chooses to die.

To begin with, John Proctor would tell the truth to the court because he wants to stop the trial for a hunt. To prevent the trial from letting anyone accused of each other including his wife. Proctor goes up and declares what Abigail was doing: “Abigail leads the girls to the woods” (Miller, 218). This quote shows that Abigail is the leader of the girls that leads other girls to the woods. This would expose to Abigail what she is doing. John would tell Elizabeth “Elizabeth, tell the truth!”(Miller, 223). It claims that he wants his wife to tell the truth so that the trial would end. He explains the truth by stating that he was having an affair with Abigail.

Mary Warren accuses Proctor’s wife is that she fires Abigail for having an affair with her husband that was Abigail’s plan to get revenge. To get his wife back, he testifies Mary about the poppet doll: “Mary, how did this poppet come to my house?” (Miller, 203). This quote stated that Proctor wanted to testify Mary about the poppet to prove that Mary has made a poppet that would expose to the court and to release his wife. Proctor trying very hard to save his wife by exposing Abigail of a fraud that she tries to accuse his wife: “Who charged her?” (Miller, 202). The quote that Proctor was saying is that he wants to know who was accusing his