How Does John Proctor Show Honesty In The Crucible

The Crucible Essay Assignment
“Truth and Honesty is the oldest and most powerful of all of the human values” (Gary King). Gary King, professor at Harvard University, emphasizes that truth and honesty are an engrained values of human kind. These values are practiced by John Proctor and John Reverend Hale in The Crucible, and by Angela and Sister Gaudentia in article - It’s 2013, And They’re Burning ‘Witches’. John Proctor and Angela do not confess and be honest and truthful. Mr. Hale and Sister Gaudentia help the innocent, accused people against society and they believe that as their responsibility. Demonstrated through The Crucible and It’s 2013, And They’re Burning ‘Witches’, when society pressures the individual to change, an individual maintains his or her own values by being honest, truthful and understand individual’s own responsibility.
John Proctor and Angela similarly share their value of honesty.
A simple farmer with Puritans’ beliefs, John Proctor, shows his honesty in the court with the confession that he had committed adultery. In the hope of life, Proctor signs his false confession and later says, “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!” (Miller—Act IV) This shows that how Proctor is honest to Rebecca Nurse and Martha Corey, Proctor also keeps his integrity and stick to the truth by not confessing witchcraft. Similarly, 40 year-old widow, Angela, tries not to give a false name as a witch and bears the torture. Although Angela once gives a name during her trial and seems dishonest but ends up with being honest and not give any more names, and remains silent as a John Proctor does in The Crucible. John Proctor and Angela are being honest to their souls and to the community through not giving any false names. Thus, John Proctor and Angela handle the societal pressure and maintain their values through being
honest.
The Crucible and It’s 2013, And They’re Burning ‘Witches’, both demonstrate the value of honesty through Mr. Hale and Sister Gaudentia. An expert of the witchcraft and a junior minister, Reverend John Hale, understands his responsibility to save innocent accused people and go against the society for the truth. Although Mr. Hale’s arrival led to the increase in hysteria later he feels guilty and he actions against the community to save the innocent people. Moreover, Mr. Hale also tries to convince John Proctor to confess and live his life instead of dying (Miller—Act IV). Likewise, Sister Gaudentia Meier, a Swiss born nurse in PNG, treats injured Angela and her mother in her clinic with the risk of wild society. Sister Gaudentia is the only person that cries in the community to stop the trial. In both The Crucible and the article, Mr. Hale and Sister Gaudentia, go against the community as their responsibility instead of get mixed into the community. When society pressures Proctor, Mr. Hale, Angela and Sister Gaudentia, they maintain their values by being honest, stick to the truth and understand their responsibilities. John Proctor and Angela continue being honest and stick to the truth even though they know that it will harm them. Mr. Hale and Sister Gaudentia are indirectly honest to the people whom they’re helping and believe it as their responsibility. The values of honesty and understanding the responsibilities lead John Proctor, Mr. Hale, Angela and Sister Gaudentia to keep them out of the foolish community. Although it is hard to maintain any values with the pressure of the community, both literatures demonstrate the strength of truth and honesty that stands against the community.