How does John Proctor change throughout the play? Does Act Four show him as a tragic hero or a desperate failure?

... How does John Proctor change throughout the play? Does Act Four show him as a tragic hero or a desperate failure? In 1952, Arthur Miller wrote a play called The Crucible. Written in a period of heightened tension in America due to the persecution of communists, Miller uses the play as a device to make a statement about that time. The play surrounds the events of the Salem witch trials of 1692, which Miller uses as an allegory for the McCarthyite persecution and the Red Scare of the time of the play's publication, which was subsequently banned. Miller remains to this day a world renowned playwright with his plays performed globally on a regular basis to this day because of the enduring messages his plays convey. John Proctor is an extremely complex character, who we as the audience come to love over the course of the play. Proctor is predominantly a typical

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