Guilty by association

            
             In drama, people are often guilty by association just from knowing someone you would rather not know or being someplace at the wrong time. During The Crucible, many distraught occurrences happen when characters form relationships that perhaps make each other, "guilty by association." John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor often reflect back to be culpable from two different people who have quaint feelings about what is being said.
             So far, John Proctor finds himself to be a Christian who has his blessings and devotion of God. People of the town such as, Ezekiel Cheever, seem to think otherwise. At first, John's wife was questioned on her thoughts or doings of witchery. However, John is asked whether or not he knows his Ten Commandments from Reverend Hale. He defiantly forgets one; adultery. This statement meant John Proctor had better count his blessings or else it could be held against him in the court, if convicted . This proves John Proctor was guilty from others because people often underestimated his ability for not going to church on a regular basis. As John Proctor told the court his wife would never lie, unfortunately, she did for the purpose to protect him. Elizabeth is asked why she terminated Abigail Williams as a worker, but for once lies to defend her husband. With this said, John becomes more suspicious when he says to the court talking to Abigail, "you are pulling heaven down and raising up a whore." Supposedly, this is said to be "unchristian" like. This statement proves that John Proctor was guilty by association because when court officials hear a "Christian" man talk like this; it's said to be defiant. With John Proctor requiring Mary Warren to testify that the girls were falsifying about witchcraft, it hurt him more in the long run. Mary Warren becomes convicted of witchcraft from Abigail to protect John, but it backfires. When Mary Warren states John bewitched her. Mary Warren inculpates John to protect herself.