Proctor is a tragic hero in his efforts to save his wife. Proctor’s first display of trying to save his wife is shown when the Court officials come to take Elizabeth away. Proctor is so upset by this assault on his house that he rips the warrant and tells them to leave rather forcefully saying, “Damn the Deputy Governor! Out of my house!”(77), demonstrating his intense love for his wife. Proctor also shows signs of being a tragic her

Proctor establishes that the children are lying in court with respect to their accusations of the townspeople. Proctor first learns of this through his household servant, Mary Warren, who is one of the accusers. Proctor deducts from the events that Mary Warren and Abigail, the lead conspirator, are trying to kill Proctor’s wife by accusing her of witchcraft. They come up with the idea of what is meant to be like a voodoo doll that Mary Warren constructs in court and gives to Elizabeth. When Marry Warren is summoned to the room where all the commotion is and is asked if she has any knowledge of the doll and conjuring she says “Conjures me? Why, no, sir, I am entirely myself, I think. Let you ask Susanna Walcott—she saw me sewin’ it in court. Or better still: Ask Abby, Abby sat beside me when I made it” (76). Proctor adds it all together and decides that it is all a hoax. Proctor then decides to go to court and expose the girls. Tragically, they turn on him and he is a

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