I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire and bloody damnation. Deadpan Snarker: Mostly with regard to Reverend Parris.The Atoner: The sin that has stemmed from his affair with Abigail has made John's life a living hell as he struggles to find a way to repent.Arch-Enemy: Abigail Williams, who is infuriated when he ends his affair with her and starts the entire Salem Witch Trials to do it.Anti-Hero: Has a history of lechery and, at least at the start of the play, a contemptible personality.He is portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis in the 1996 film. He sort of achieves this repentance when he allows himself to be hanged at the end of the fourth act. His main conflict in the play narrative isn't the witch trials instead, he is weighed down by the woeful and sinful horrors of his past affairs with Abigail, leaving him as an atoner desperate to redeem himself and cleanse himself from his sins. The protagonist of the play, the husband of Elizabeth Proctor, and the father of several children.
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