John Proctor: Hero or Stooge?

John Proctor has many good and bad things about him. In my opinion i believe that John Proctor is in fact a Hero. The reason I would say such things is because of his actions. Yes, he did commit a sin of adultery with Abigail but i believe that he learned his lesson and knew it was wrong afterwards. He showed that he was truly committed to his wife, and that's why he cut off connections with Abigail to the point of calling her a whore. John Proctor is a  hero in my eyes but he was the one who made Hale change to help the others who were accused. If it weren't for Proctor's actions of going to Salem and telling his sins, i feel that the other 7 remaining besides him would all just die. Proctor is a hero because he cared so much about Elizabeth that he wasn't even scared to admit his affair with Abigail if it mean that Elizabeth would live. Although Proctor did wait for such a long time to confess, and Abigail did end up escaping, it feels like he changed the way their community functioned and thought of such actions. Proctor's death might have changed the courts viewing on the way they got things done. So yes I do believe that Proctor is a hero, who cared about his people, and went so far to even getting himself killed so that the whole witchcraft case would stop.