Jon Protor

Pride and Honor

      The Batman has his pride he doesn’t realize or care about anything but saving the city until the joker kills the one he loves. With anger and rage in his soul he kills The Joker for his selfishness and his careless pride. He pride was his downfall in this and it took out the best of him regardless. Also his careless took the best of him that why there was a death of the one he loved so dearly. Consider the case of John Proctor in Miller’s The Crucible his pride distracts him from seeing the truth. Though John Proctor changes form careless pride to responsible guilt, The Crucible demonstrates that we must overcome pride so we can see our faults and take responsibility for it.
      John Proctor changes form careless pride to being guilty for his actions throughout the end. In the end he has to protect his honor his name from being signed to lies that’s his responsible guilt trying to eat him alive. Can’t do what he needs to because of it. “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies. How may I live without my name?”(Miller 886). This quote from the book shows that he has name a reputation to protect its also that careless pride that he has he still doesn’t see the future honestly I don’t think John Proctor even cares what happens to him next. But also before the ending of Act III many other people die because John Proctor pride and name get in the way knowing Abigail William is the cause of this mischief and trouble in Salem. So far as he lives she won’t give up but to get John Proctors to be hers completely.   His careless pride and the guilt make him weak in the eyes of his wife Elizabeth Proctor. “The challenge for John Proctor is to transform guilt into conscience and hence into responsibility. Guilt renders him powerless” (Bigsby). His guilt has killed him in more than one way because he thought what he was doing was right but before he knew it Mary Warren join sides with...