ld be over. After Proctor has confessed to witchcraft to save his life, he pleads with the members of the court not to divulge to the townspeople his confession. If the rest of the town knew he had confessed, his image and his name would be destroyed. He wants his private life to remain private at least within the court. He begs for his privacy because it is so important to him. However, he changes his mind because his name is too important, and he is hung because of it. Proctor believes so strongly about the separation of public and private life, that he is willing to die for it.It is very unusual that despite the immense time difference between the two books, the main characters in each are so similar. Not only are they physically, and personally similar, but they are also emotionally similar. They react in similar ways to events. Miller did not use Dimmesdales character as the backbone for Proctors, but Miller and Hawthorne seem to have used the same person on which their characters are based....
