POINT OF VIEW

Arthur Miller has chosen to tell the story of the Salem witch
trials from the point of view of one of its victims, John Proctor.
This personalizes the story for us; by the end we know Proctor
better than anyone else in the play, and we feel his suffering all
the more intensely because we care about him. We also come to
understand what happens by following and sharing Proctor's
struggle to understand it himself.

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