"I have given you my soul; leave me my name!" Do you consider John Procter to be heroic? John Proctor was a farmer in Salem, Massachusetts in America and, because he had a lot of land, he was a well respected in the village. He was married to Elizabeth and they had three children together. He was involved in the 1692 Salem witch trials, which provoked mass hysteria amongst the people of the village. At the …showed first 75 words of 1089 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1089 total…man willing to give up his life because he remained honest. This nobility is, to me, very heroic. However, when it comes down to it, he did not achieve some feat of great strength or intelligence. He did not save little children from a burning house. He was an adulterer, and he broke several of the Ten Commandments. He was not a hero - he was a man who had to do the right thing.