Reverend 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 '' bewitched'' he encourages them to talk about their being bewitched, and
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. Soon after the trials begin Hale begins to have doubts in the girls. 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. 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). 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). The nail is put in the coffin in terms of Hale realizing the truth when Mary Warren appears at the court to testify against Abigail and the other girls who are making up stories. Danforth, calling to him in a fury : Mr. Here is the passage where Hale finally comes to his senses and quits the court, after proctor has been charged with witchery. Hale knows that people will confess to anything to avoid being hanged, and he is deeply troubled when he learns of Abigail's motifs for revenge. He is not like Danforth or Hawthorne who see the truth but do not want to be juste to save their reputations. Reverend Hale is surprised, but disturbed by the news because he thought of Rebecca as surely being innocent when he met her. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Danforth: Marshal ! take him and Corey with him to the jail! Hale, starting across to the door :I denounce these proceedings! Proctor : You are pulling Heaven down and raising up a whore! Hale : I denounce these proceedings, I quit this court! He slams the door to the outside behind him. puts some words into their mouths, but he only does this because he really believes in witches, and believes the girls' stories.
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