John Proctor...a smart idiot.

I always thought John Proctor to be the stupidest person ever since he was part of the cause of so many innocent people dying. He refused to admit that he had committed adultery until the very end when it was too late to save anyone and Abigail was the mastermind behind all of this. Proctor knew it, but as Abigail wanted, he remained silent about the affair. On the contrary, Proctor bettered himself at the end of the book. He refused to allow Danforth to present the document to the public because he knew that if he allowed it, then Rebecca Nurse and the others would have died all because of a lie. They would be looked down on upon because they refused to "confess". So in a way, Proctor was an idiot with wits.