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The Crucible                                                                          Waris Mahad 11GL

 

How does Arthur Miller create sympathy for John Proctor in the “Crucible?”

Arthur Miller creates sympathy for John proctor in a number of different and effective ways. The way I feel was the most effective, was the way Arthur changes our impression of proctor during the play. As in, in the first act proctor says “Abbey I never give you hope to wait for me”. This was the first time the audience find out that proctor; a seemingly ordinary family man has actually been involved in an affair, further on in the play the audience realise that proctor has learn his lesson when he says this quote “I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint  it is a fraud, I am not that man”. This shows the audience that proctor feels guilty and ashamed of his affair with Abigail; this also shows us he feels he is not honest by saying “it is fraud” and how he cannot be hung like a saint. How Rebecca Nurse, Mary and many others got hung for being accused for something they never did. I think and I strongly feel proctor was not and is trying not be a hypocrite which a very good and loyal man to me as he respects his word and sticks to it.

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      In addition, another way in which Arthur miller creates sympathy for proctor is when proctor says this line “Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now?” By proctor saying this it is as though saying what is on the readers mind, as in we know right from act one that the girls are lying and the audience feel angry, what with all the accusation. So by proctor saying this the audience feel almost relived in a way. The audience feel as though proctor is the only brave character that ...

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