In my opinion, John Proctor is a good guy, but its just that some of the puritans may think he is bad because he is a bit ahead of his time for the time of this story. He’s sick of Parris preaching week in and week out about eternal damnation. Now the puritans may think that this is what their pastors need to be talking about, but John Proctor is reacting more like someone would if they were being preached to like this in today’s time. A lot of people today wouldn't stay in a church if the pastor preaches like Parris does. Mostly because it’s all negative, it gets to be very discouraging over time.
So its not that John Proctors is bad, although he may be construed as bad because he’s going against the main basis of being a puritan by not always being god fearing. People today know that god isn’t just angry all the time waiting for us to slip up, John Proctor knows this too and he doesn’t want to sit in church week after week and listen to Parris screaming about how he’s going to hell.
As for Johns personal life, some of the things he has done have been of questionable morals but nothing so bad as to say that he’s evil.
So overall John Proctor is not evil, he’s just made some mistakes in his life. But who hasn't right?!?!?!?
Majority of people would say John was a hero, and I agree with you.
ReplyDeleteI also like how you made the font EXTRA big to make the blog look long. Smooth move :]