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Rev Hale In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

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Alex Argabright Mr. Panarella Sophomore Honors: per 6 3 January 2023 Title A whole town is taken over by the devil, and your limited knowledge decides their fate. Rev Hale is a very influential man of the village in Arthur Miller's Crucible as he was the only guy anybody trusted about the devil. He was the most knowledgeable as he could be on a topic that is known to few. Everything Hale said everyone believed leading to false beliefs and many preventable deaths and unfairness through trials. . Rev Hale should be pitied because he actually wants to help people, he wants to fix the blood on his hands, and he is fighting against the wrongful Court. To start, ever since Rev Hale was called into the village he always had the intent to help people. …show more content…

Since the court and everyone believed Rev Hales word many people who were arrested were because of him. Rev Hale stated, “ Excellency, I have signed seventy-two death warrants; I am a minister of the Lord, and I dare not take a life without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it” (Miller 99). This was the starting point of Hale realizing how many lives were taken because of his word. He signed the warrants, making the death in his hand, but he was trying to get them a second chance because he knew they were wrongfully accused. Also, when Rev Hale visits Elizabeth in the Jail he tries to make her confess the truth because he knows her and John were wrongfully thrown in jail. Hale stated, “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 ). Hale also said, “I would save your husbands life, for if he is taken I count myself his murderer” (Miller 131). Hale was trying to reverse the thoughts of the captured because he knows all of the conspiracy is from a pit of lies. Hale wants to convince them that there is another way because he knows all these deaths will haunt his thoughts for the rest of his

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