John Proctor And Reverend Hale In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

In The Crucible, Arthur Miller develops the characters of John Proctor and Reverend Hale as a pair of motivated, determined, and socially influential individuals in order to show that not all people in Salem are falling for the dirty tricks of Abigail Williams and the court. As Hale is informing the Proctors that Elizabeth has been mentioned in the court as being a witch, John Proctor explains to Hale that the children’s sickness, which started the witch hunt, had “naught to do with witchcraft” (Miller 33). It just came to John that Salem has “gone daft with this nonsense” (33). Due to the witch hunt, Proctor “always wondered if there be witched in the world” (34) and he even tells Hale that he “cannot believe” (34) that they even exist. Since

Hale is persuaded by Proctor that the witchcraft scenario in Salem is just a hoax. John Proctor even brings his evidence to the court, he is now extremely determined to stop the witchcraft allegations since his wife was accused. He forces Marry Warren, his servant, to the court, who “declares her friends are lying” (44). Reverend Hale also gets involved by trying to convince Samuel Danforth, head of the court, to hear Proctor’s case. He tries to by saving Proctor’s reputation; by expressing his belief that the court cannot “judge the man on such evidence” (41) of committing small actions that goes against his religion. Hale highly suggests that Danforth “must hear the case” (40) because he convinced that the group of girls are lying about being bewitched. Now that Reverend Hale is on John Proctor’s side, he can exert his influence on the court. He shows his allegiance to John by trying to save his reputation in the town and by continuously trying to convince Danforth to listen to Proctor. Ever since Hale knew the truth, he has sought to fix the wrong doings of the