Reverend John Hale
The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a play that takes place in the sixteen nineties during the famous but tragic witch trials. Reverend Hale who is a minister and an expert of the demonic arts and witchcraft is sent from East Hanover to Salem where there is a spreading fear of witchcraft. When Hale arrives in Salem he finds the entire town in total chaos. At the beginning Hale is adamant in believing that they're where witches and that nothing but good could come of his being there. Near the end when the truth has been exposed, Hale with so much blood on his head pleads : '' I come to do the Devil's work. I come to counsel Christians they should belie themselves. There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!'' (Miller,131). For Reverend Hale the witch hunt in Salem is the scene of a moral journey as he eventually makes a complete turn around in thoughts and beliefs as he is forced to see certain realities. At the start of Reverend Hale's metamorphosis he is so sure of himself and of his belief, in witches, that he even inadvertently eases their lying. At this point when he meets Parris and the girls who have been '' bewit
After a few days of court Hale visits several households without the courts authority, and goes to John Proctors house to have a few words with John and his wife . After Mary's testimony, and Proctor's eventual confession of lechery, Hale, who has watched the proceedings with increasing frustration, finally must listen to his conscience, and he quits the court. The reader is aware of Hale's 180 degree turn of ideas at the end of the play when Hale, is pleading with the prisoners, who will be hung, to confess because he has so much blood on his head. Every time Hale sees one of these realities his original surety lessens until he must consider the fact that the whole thing may have been a hoax, and finally when he realizes the truth it is too late to do anything about it. He knows he made a mistake and tries to straighten things out because he feels guilty. Hale then tries to explain her arrest by saying (in great pain) : ''Man remember, until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven'' (71). Soon after the trials begin Hale begins to have doubts in the girls. He is not like Danforth or Hawthorne who see the truth but do not want to be juste to save their reputations. Hale becomes more aware of the truth near the end of Act II, when Giles Corey and Francis Nurse report that their wives have been taken away. Danforth, calling to him in a fury : Mr. At the end of the talks Proctor states : '' And why not, if they must hang for denying it? There are them that will swear to anything before they'll hang ; have you never thought of that?'' (69). Here is the passage where Hale finally comes to his senses and quits the court, after proctor has been charged with witchery.
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