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The crucible

Honesty is described as being far or just; free of decit and untruthfulness or being sincere; truthful. The best policy is always honest. Today honesty should be one of the most important things in society, unfortunately not everyone is honest. In this book, nevertheless, honesty plays a crucial role. Farmer John Proctor, who is in his middle thirties, is married to Elizabeth Proctor. John is pretty much an even-tempered man. In Authur Miller’s book The Crucible it is clearly shown that John Proctor is not an honest man. Proctor is not honest in that he cheats on his wife, he bluntly confesses that he lies, and he also lies about seeing the devil and his belief in witches. If the are not honest then they suffer greatly…by death.

In The Crucible John Proctor cheats on his wife, and never told her unti


l the end. The girl he cheats with is Abigail Williams who is only seventeen years old, not to mention Parris’ niece. Proctor despises Parris greatly. Abigail Williams says, “I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion…and you loved me then and you do now” (Miller 22). Later on Mr. Proctor admits to the court that he cheated on his wife. “I have known her, sir. I have known her.” In other words, he cheated on his wife Elizabeth. Unfortunately, in the end Elizabeth finds out that Proctor cheated on her.

In our society today, honesty should be one of the most important things. In the novel, The Crucible Authur Miller clearly shows that John Proctor is not an honest man. In the end, lack of honesty equals death. John Proctor lacks honesty in that he cheated on

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