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
Respected people have told Hale that the trials are non-sense. He says that, '' if Rebecca Nurse be tainted, then nothing's left to stop the whole greenworld from burning'' (71). 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. 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. 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. He has tried to find holes in these people's reasoning, so he can be reassured he hasn't made a big mistake in his aiding of the conviction of these people, but their reasoning is completely logical. Reverend Hale is surprised, but disturbed by the news because he thought of Rebecca as surely being innocent when he met her. At this point Hale hopes that the trials are legitimate, and tries to account for unusual happenings, but things just do not add up. Soon after the trials begin Hale begins to have doubts in the girls. 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. 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. Danforth, calling to him in a fury : Mr. He is not like Danforth or Hawthorne who see the truth but do not want to be juste to save their reputations. 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).
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