Our community seems to run our lives nowadays, which makes sense as it is in our human nature to want to belong. Therefore, We will do anything to belong with other people, but separating from the norm to do what’s right is something only a few have done. The separation from the norm for justice is even more admirable when the person has such respect and nobility within the norm. It takes a person with courage, strength and righteousness to be able to listen to the enemy in the possibility that they might be correct. Reverend Hale, in The Crucible, is that person with courage and the want for justice because he changed from an arrogant “witchcraft specialist” and a court member to the man trying to save the lives of those accused of witchcraft.
Rev. Hale’s change is not so subtle. The first introduction of him is that he loves being called to ascertain witchcraft as it gave him pride of his knowledge (Miller 1146). When he arrived at Salem he immediately took himself superior telling the presented to carry his books (Miller
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Hale is completely dumbfounded to the result of the session and the mindset of the judges. He seems to have lost hope in justice and enraged, shouted “ I denounce these proceedings, I quit this court!” (Miller 1213). As seen in Miller Act 4, Rev. Hale is trying to get the accused to confess to save their lives but to no avail. The jailed have too much pride in their name to be able to confess; but his problem was that he tried to defeat a lie with another lie. He realized his faults and confessed to Elizabeth, warning her not to cling to religion (Miller 1224). In spite of his good intentions, He fails to get Elizabeth to convince Proctor to confess, and as Rebecca, Elizabeth and Proctor go to hang; he falls to his knees, defeated, shouting and pleading to Elizabeth to make Proctor confess (Miller 1232). Otherwise, He recognized his mistakes and tried to fix it, but that’s all he could do,