onfessing. Proctor finds a way of exposing Abigail and her friends as liars without having to make his affair public. He persuades Mary Warren to tell the truth. Eventually Proctor admits to having committed adultery but not to be brave or heroic, but out of desperation to save his wife. Sensing Mary Warren’s weakness, Proctor is forced to talk about his relationship with Abigail. Although it seems noble, this heroic notion is categorised under anti-hero because Proctor merely confessed because he had to. He did not want to and had avoided revealing his affair but it was the last thing he could do because of Abigail’s influence over Mary Warren. His last attempt at saving Elizabeth fails and Proctor is also accused of witchcraft. Proctor is sentenced to hang but given an opportunity to save himself- he must confess to being aligned with the devil. This choice is the climax of the play. Faced with yet another difficult decision, Proctor is torn between a life of lies or an honourable death. Being an anti-hero, he does not immediately come to the more heroic decision. Instead, he consults Elizabeth for advice. In the end he chooses to commit himself to his friends and die an honest man. He states that “I have three children - how may I teach them to walk like men in the world, and I sold my friends?”Proctor reasons that in confessing, he can never raise his children to be virtuous men without being labelled a hypocrite. By facing death, he proves his loyalty to friends and maintains a respectable reputation. Proctor faces his own death and in making this decision, Proctor becomes a tragic hero. Unlike Proctor who goes from anti-hero to tragic hero, Thomas Anderson transitions to a romantic hero. Thomas Anderson is the anti-hero of “The Matrix”. Anderson is immediately established as the heroic figure, constantly referred to as “the one” but his doubt shapes him into an anti-hero. He is initi...
