John Proctor's Pride In The Crucible '

John Proctor is one of the most significant characters in the play and is viewed as a very prideful person. At the beginning of the book he does cheat on his wife and have an affair with the maid Abigail Williams. After this he regrets ever doing it, but while he is being accused of witchcraft by Abigail he tries to make things right while still keeping the affair a secret. Although he does confess after not too long, “A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now. I beg you, sir, I beg you—see her what she is. . . . She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore’s vengeance.”
I believe that Proctor’s last act wasn’t of excessive pride or honor. He is not lying and is not connected to the devil in any way, but the court is trying to get him to sign a testimony to save their pride, not his. "I am not worth the dust on the feet of
Proctor would rather hang to save his friends and tell the truth than carry on a lie and live. Since he does chose not to lie and decides to tell the truth and hang instead, he is a very noble man. To know your going to die but have enough willpower to accept that and not have to commit a sin and lie is a courageous act.
Proctor was innocent in the whole witchcraft thing, but he couldn’t allow himself to be de-named. He wouldn't sign the confession or let his naame be taken away from him or his family. Though he felt it wrong to have to lie about not being part of the witchcraft, he feels he deserves to hang for all the wrong he has done by Elizabeth. He thinks that by hanging he will rid Elizabeth of her pain and all will be better again. Proctor was a noble man and by making the decision to hang and not sign the confession he is not being too