There are many facets to John Proctor and they occur at different stages of the play. John is a complex character and is well respected even though he has done wrong. things. Arthur Miller found himself in the same situation as John Proctor in 1956-57 because he refused to give the names of people he saw at communist meetings. There was the same trial system. If you confessed, you would remain alive assuming that you had turned away from communist meetings, but if you denied having been seen at a communist meeting, you would have been hanged because there would be no evidence to show that you were not there. not. You get the impression that John Proctor's character is based on Miller's real-life character. When John Proctor is first introduced into the play, there is a paragraph describing him, and as you read this you learn a lot about his character, what other people think. about himself, what he thinks about himself and how he acts towards people. “He was the kind of man – powerful in body, even temperate and difficult to lead.” This quote is very simple and you understand that it is unbiased. After this quote, you think he seems like a good, rule-abiding man; however, you then arrive at the phrase "he is a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the times but against his own view of decent conduct." This is the point where you start to think; what could he have done to become a sinner? Was it a sin in the eyes of God, of his friends and family, of the law? The description tells us that Proctor was so respected that he was also feared. This is proven when John Proctor enters the door and Mary Warren "jumps in fear." Mary Warren is John Proctor's servant but after a few lines you realize she's not a very good...... middle of paper ... I agree, but he's a good father and he cares about people. I think Salem would say he was a bad man. Elizabeth, on the other hand, would say that he was a good man because even though he did bad things in his life, he feels guilty for doing those things and knows he did wrong, which, some would say, is more important than the crime itself. I think John Proctor would consider himself a bad man because he is presented as very modest and he would think about the crimes he has committed rather than the good things he has done. Doing the wrong thing doesn't make him a bad man. I think John has a lot of good points and a lot of bad points, but he did the right thing in the end and he knew what he did was wrong as soon as he did it, he loved his wife and she loved him, he was a good father and he lived a good life, so I think John Proctor is a good man!