I love The Crucible!

I like this quote and can appreciate it more because I've read the play and understand what kind of character John Proctor is. Though I don't think he "agreed to sign" anything. I think he agreed to confess to the crime of witchcraft verbally but refused to give his written name. And that's important not just to himself but to all the ones before him who had been falsely accused and hanged, since he says he's not even worth the dust at their feet. He'd already disgraced and broken himself to the point of admitting to the false deed, but his name is the only true thing left that he has to hold on to.

A sad and frustrating play! (But I gotta admit I laughed in the film adaptation when they were all hanged in the end because it was kinda funny in it. *terrible person*)