John Proctor Failure

Is a man who cheats on his wife and fails to bring justice to the town worthy of the title of a tragic “hero”. John Proctor is a character in Arthur Miller’s play the Crucible. His goal as stated in the play is to stop Abigail who is accusing his wife of witchcraft. John Proctor however fails to do that. John Proctor is not a tragic hero in any sense of the word. Although Miller argues John Proctor is a tragic hero, Proctor’s actions cause him to be defined as a failure.
John Proctor is a failure because he fails to stop the witch trials and abigail. A major purpose of his life in the context of the play is to stop Abigail and he doesn't do that. Abigail still walks free after the events of the play. It even says “the legend has it that Abigail
This means that Proctor knowingly is a sinner, he knows what nobility and virtue are and he defies them. And in defying those traits he defies what it essentially means to be a tragic hero. Oedipus may have slept with his mother in the play oedipus rex, but he did it unknowingly. John Proctor went out of his way and chose to cheat on his wife and sleep with Abigail. No one, in good conscious, could say that this man is noble or virtuous in character or even redeemable as a person.
Arthur Miller may have said that John Proctor is a tragic hero in his essay “Tragedy in a Common Man” by stating “I believe that the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were,” (Miller) but he has no evidence to support his claim. John Proctor meets very few criteria of a tragic hero, therefore he could not possibly be a tragic hero. His actions dictated that he was a failure. And indeed he is. Again i ask can a man who cheats and fails to complete the task he was created for be called a tragic hero? The answer, quite obviously, is he can