John Proctor Hero or Stooge?

John Proctor is a hero and a stooge but more so a hero. In the courts while his wife Elizabeth is being taken and arrested he is accusing other people because his supposed main goal is to save his wife. But the underlying truth to that is that eventually when his wife claims to be pregnant and saved for a year he doesn't want to drop his charges to the other people. Parris says that his main goal is to overthrow  the court and that may seem true. Towards the end of the story he confesses his sin of lechery on Abigail but  they do not believe him and his wife denies it to save his name so he is in line to be hanged,but only if he confesses will he survive. He choses to go against his religious priciples  and lie to save his life. Eventually after hee has confessed without going againt his friends he tears up his confession saying that only God needs to see his confession and that his name shall remain the same in the town of Salem. So John Proctor will hang and be judged only by himself as a good man because he knows that he is no better than everyone else standing up for their beliefs that are being hanged, and that is why he is a hero more than a stooge because when it mattered he stood up and followed his principles when some other citizens in this town based solely upon theocracy has chosen not to.