The tragic ending brings to life the point of injustice Miller was trying to convey. When film watchers get to glimpse the hanging of John Proctor as he is reciting the Lord’s Prayer, they finally feel the true sorrow for righteous man. The play was based on the events taking place during the Red Scare when thousands of Americans were accused of being Communist spies. Although people were not hanged for criminal actions like in the Puritan society, their punishments were harsh and sever fines were paid. Miller wanted to show that people’

Aristotle’s idea of tragedy was based on serious actions that turn out catastrophic for the main character in the end. From the beginning of the play John Proctor’s problems begin to appear. The reader finds out about his sin of adultery with Abigail and begins to since the downward spiral he descends. His failing attempt to catch the liars in their act with his servant Mary shows the reader there is no turning back. He desperately tries to accuse the whore Abigail, but his wife lies under oath not wanting to condemn her husband. Ironically she still does at the turning point of the play when Proctor is arrested for lying to the court. Like in Aristotle’s view he is doomed through his own failure and faces that doom with honorable traits. He is not falling from a high status but still dies in inferior status than in the beginning. With the witness of the death in the film version the audience is able to see his true nature when he faces death.

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