Agency can be reclaimed through ethical resistance
, but this resistance can lead to personal sacrifice.
This is embodied perfectly by John Proctor through his journey in reclaiming agency from his view of himself as a sinner which…
which requires him to sacrifice his life.
Miller highlights how
reclamation of agency starts with confronting the self and how ethical resistance is not just external, but also internal.
Additionally, anaphora is used once again to symbolise John’s super-ego
Miller interrogates
, but this time directed to an ethical resistance.
Miller interrogates the paradox of survival of integrity within institutional hysteria: confession is moral but also self-destructive.
The adverb “Now” shows how after the completion of his ethical resistance he is finally free from his inner-critic view of himself as a sinner,
thus reclaiming his agency, but at the cost of his life.
This shows how moral worth is self-defined and not externally dictated; Miller asserts true redemption and health arrives from inner truth rather than external validation.
