Reverend Hale a villain?
A villain- A antagonist in a story who has a negative effect on other characters. Reverend Hale A man of god who is married and works for the court. In the play the Crucible by Arthur Miller Mr.Hale is a man of christian faith who gets caught up in a sudden conflict in the village of Salem,Massachusetts Where there has been accusations of witchcraft. Many if not most people are confused and are desperate for an answer. As a town full of godly people who fear the wrath of Satan. people are quick to make assumptions. This story falls in the hands of a teenage girl named abigail where the village rides on her beliefs and will arrest whoever is guilty of witchcraft. There is a lot not to like of abigail who was seen in the forest “dancing with the devil” with other girls and the servant of the parris family Tituba who apparently forced abigal to perform the black magic with her. Fear is a great human emotion that can lead to wrong decisions when you can't escape your problems.
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Procter than tears the paper and knows he basically has crumbled his life. Hale puts his word in “Man,you cannot! you will hang!” (Line 293). Proctor fights the argument and says he can as his name will not be ruined due to the horrible job done by the court. As Hale deals with demonic arts and works with exorcisms he knows that these trials are false and that the village will deny to avoid hanging there is a lot of lives that are depending on Hales investigation. But Hale cannot succeed at pursuing a way to find false accusations on the people and to expose Abigail's wrong evil revenge. When Hale settles in and starts to find the truth it becomes a little too late to prove that there has been no evil demonic possession of the