Reverend Hale In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

A Change For The Better

Reverend Hale, full of pride and his knowledge of witchcraft, was an interesting character in the drama The Crucible by Arthur Miller. He was a dynamic character, meaning that throughout the story line, he changed in a significant way. Hale finds himself summoned to the village of Salem, Massachusetts, where strange things are happening and some are beginning to suspect witchcraft is on the loose. As the story unfolds, Hale changes from an arrogant man who trusts too much in his books to a humble man who is now full of guilt for the helping of putting the townspeople into the jail house for being accused of witchcraft. Going throughout the trials, Reverend Hale came to have more and more sympathy from what he was like

“...I know not if you are aware, but your wife’s name is- mentioned in the court.” That’s what brought him to them tonight, “without the court’s authority.” So now the question is, Why did he come to them without the court’s approval? “I think you must hear the girl, sir, she-” Hale tries to back Mary up in court so the judge would hear her statement, but they wouldn’t take her deposition. “Your Honor, I cannot think you may judge the man on such evidence.” “Is every defense an attack upon the court?...” Hale starts to get angry with the way the judges are reacting to the people coming into the court to tell their stories. Hale eventually walks out on the court. He is hating how the court system is set up. His final words to the court were, “I denounce these proceedings, I quit this

“I believe him! This girl has always struck me false! She has-” He doesn’t want these people to die because of his mistake. He wants them all to see that their lives are important, but none of them want to go against God and lie to the court. Hale talked and talked to them just to get even the littlest thing out of them to prove their innocence to the court. “You must pardon them. They will not budge,” he told the judge. “Why, it is so simple. 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!!” Hale is now full of guilt and, he wants to take it back with all his might. “... Excellency, I must have more time,” but it was to late. Hale tried to fix his mistakes with all his might. He walked away from his job of searching for witches in the town of Salem to trying to save the lives of people because of the fraud of witchery. “If you think God wills you to raise rebellion, Mr. Danforth, you are