The Crucible Reverend Hale is a respected religious scholar who arrives in Salem to give advice on a witchcraft problem including betty whom is thought to be witch. Reverend Hale means good but is proved to be the opposite and not well builded. At one point he turns against the court but, is unable to stop the executions of john John Proctor and his wife Mary Warren. The lengthy stage directions before first Reverend Hale’s entry, is one way that Arthur Miller tells us about him and who he is as a person and who he is trying to portray. Reverend Hale believed completely in what he was doing, and he thinks he is trying to put an end to witchcraft for all of the right reasons. "His goal...goodness and its preservation". Reverend Hale sees the study of witchcraft like a science, and Arthur Miller’s uses medical words to back this …show more content…
Also the language Reverend Hale uses changes. It becomes much more intense making us feel sorry for him, and empathetic with John Proctor and his wife Mary Warren. Arthur Miller has given Reverend Hale terms such as "crying out", "my oath to heaven", "and pray" and "I beg". However I think this language gives the audience a sense of the change in Reverend Hale’s character. He is seeing life in much more human terms, instead of everything he does/and says being based on his books. He now feels that humans have more significance than his learnings, as he is using his judgment. Up until this point he has only believed in the total power of the court. Reverend Hale’s view to Judge Danforth appears to be dramatically change by the end of the play. At the start, Reverend Hale held such respect for Danforth, this reversal of feelings is extremely