Informative Essay on John Proctor

John proctor a persecuted puritan farmer, chooses to take a stand against the church and all the killing that they were doing. In 1692 Salem was an enclosed town where they were not accustomed to things of the outside. So when witchcraft was introduced to the town they took the opportunity to use the church as a source of government. John Proctor does not bier in what the church believes since their beliefs are so tainted. He thinks people should worship in their own way not the way the church tries to get them to do.
He says he worked for his own land and if it needs tending to on the sabbath then he shall most definitely tend to it. In the years that salem was established they had already left the rule of england but their roots in the country and all its beliefs were still pretty firm. So anything outside and different was shunned. This is where John Proctor is viewed as an outsider. He does not view the sabbath and does not go to church. When the whole town was having their little scare of witch craft john proctor in a view was being unfairly targeted.
The Government in the town( mainly judge Danforth) were moor immersed in what it would look like then the truth. So they began sentencing innocent people to death. This gave the town hope that the church was doing everything right for them. In arthur millers time while he wrote the crucible the same thing was going on. The government was controlling the things people did with their lives and how they worked. In a sense this was a way for arthur miller to portray how as a country we have advanced technologically but our believes, even slightly skewered are forever unchanged.

At the end when Proctor is sentenced to death and the court gives him an ultimatum. They offer him death or a contract that will be put on the doors of the church and nullify all the killing that has been going on in Salem. When he refuses to sign the contract he choses to pick death over agreement. This means that he chose his name and stood by his values over what society was based on and how their values where more than vaguely skewed. That is the point of the Crucible no?
How a society can be so changed and so altered by its leaders to the point where they have no ideas of their own and do not think for themselves. A Distopia where perfection is what they try to achieve but imperfections is what is produced as they try to become something that is not real. The crucible gives insight to not only the belief of 1692 salem but to the government during 1945 and may as well give us insight on our government today. Arthur millers novel was moor than just a book about the past but an insight to a world that could be only based off of different values and mindsets.