Die Honorably Or Live Dishonorably Analysis

“Die Honorably or Live Dishonorably” is a quote from the Crucible that has entered our everyday lingo. I read the Crucible in high school and it filled with honorable and dishonorable people. It is a clear perspective of how dishonor can hurt the honorable.
Honor, dignity, and integrity are traits that are becoming more in society. The Crucible, a play written in 1952 by Arthur Miller, is based on the Salem witch hunts of 1692 and parallels the Red Scare and McCarthyism in the 1950s. In the play, Miller attempts to focus his themes around traits such as honor, dignity, and integrity, and as a result, the theme "is it better to die honorably or live dishonorably" becomes vital in the story and well conveyed throughout it. The characters that
In act one, Proctor exchanges angry words with Reverend Parris and says, "I may speak my heart, I think!" (30). Parris is more concerned with money than God, and John honestly speaks of how wrong that is even though it would get him into trouble. When Reverend Hale asks him why his third son is not baptized, John tells him, "I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby" (65). He sticks to his conviction, while, again, it will cause him some problems. While trying to exonerate Elizabeth, he declares himself a lecher, stating "I have known her, sir. I have known her" (110). He is willing to ruin his name and reputation to save his wife, demonstrating for the first time in the play that he is truly devoted to his wife. Finally, at the end of the play, when asked to sign a confession, John refuses, crying out that he would not "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!" (143). Even when facing death, he will not give into a lie, will not give up his name, and flat out refuses to sell his friends to save his own life. John Proctor became a martyr for what he believed was right and prevented further injustice and
She lies, manipulates, bullies, and even threatens to kill many of the other characters. Along with some of the other local girls, Abigail dances in the woods and tries to perform a spell to kill Elizabeth Proctor. When Reverend Parris, her uncle, asks her about her name in the village, she insists, "There be no blush about my name" (12). This is a lie. She had an affair with Goody Proctor's husband and was later discharged from the family's service because of it. After that, no other family in the village would hire her. When Betty wakes and tries to fly away to her mother, Abigail threatens all of the girls by telling them, "Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring pointy reckoning that will shudder you" (20). Right off the bat, she is ready to kill any of them that go against her or what she has said. Later, she would throw other residents of Salem to the dogs to protect herself, and even go as far as to stab herself in the stomach with a needle to implicate Goody Proctor as a witch. When John Proctor brings Mary Warren to the court to defend his wife, Abby tried to disprove the girl by leading the court and the rest of the girls to believe that Mary is attacking with