1) John Proctor is seen as a protagonist in the story, especially with having many of the details being revolved around him. He would not be considered an antagonist, because the antagonists are the people who are accusing or pointing fingers at other people, and he hasn’t appeared to do anything like that. He also plays as a major character in The Crucible. He has a great impact on the story, because he once had a relationship with Abigail, and had an affair on his wife Elizabeth with Abigail. Not only that, but Elizabeth is accused of being a witch, which adds even a bigger twist. Following that, John Proctor can be seen as a dynamic character through his voice and his words. By this, I mean that in Act I, he seems as more of a mellow character, but then the beginning of Act 2 shows him yelling and showing a side that we might now have expected. And then tying with that, this shows how he is a round character, because of his change that we saw from Act I to Act 2.
2) John Proctor’s personal qualities consist of being two-faced and a liar, and also mean. But on the positive side, he does show signs of trying to fix his marriage, which also shows how he is a good person. The reasons why he can be described by these characteristics would be because he cheats on his wife, which means that he has “two-faces” to him. This also ties into why he’s a liar, because he had the affair with Abigail behind Elizabeth’s back. By this, he didn’t necessarily lie through his words, but more through his actions. And by following up on that, he is mean. He is mean to his wife, as seen at the beginning of Act 2. Although Elizabeth does question him about where he’s been which might have triggered him to be upset, and she has a good reason to. He also does care about Elizabeth and their marriage, because Proctor does try to defend her as best as he could for being a witch, and he also tries to protect his marriage in the scene whenever Abigail tries to separate them apart.
3) The types of conflicts that Proctor would face are possibly both internal and external conflicts. The internal one, man vs. mind, would be on his feelings of both Elizabeth and Abigail. He loves Elizabeth and is married to her, but once had a relationship with Abigail, which can show a sign of an internal conflict. The way he does try to overcome this conflict though is by defending Elizabeth from Abigail as shown in Act 2, by even saying how he doesn’t want Abigail to lay a finger on Elizabeth, which shows how he tries to overcome his conflict. And than an external conflict would be man vs. society. The society that he is facing are the people who are accusing people of witchcraft. He is facing them, because they are accusing his wife Elizabeth.
