John Proctor... after long debating with myself, I decided on hero. For a hero stands up for what they believe in and does what is right, no matter the consequence (in this case a hanging). He's deciding to die based on principle, telling the church that this is where it ends w/ the sins, no more lies and this may be seen as his attempt to make up for committing adultery with Elizabeth.
We see a man of reason, he's one of the people we see who tries to see the logic in things rather than to jump to the conclusion that there is witchcraft. Proctor tries to show the community that they have done wrong, to little avail. John Proctor sees the wrong in the church and starts breaking away from religion and in my opinion this must be hard (or damning) for a Puritan to decide to break away from this religious norm, he recognizes that what Parris preaches about religion (hell, eternal damnation and such) wouldn't be the way of god.
Dying on principle seems harder than we think it to be, a lot of people would have rather taken the 'easy way' out and gone on with the lie, because of this, I believe that John Proctor is a hero.
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