Reverend Hale The Crucible

Words have a prodigious influence on people and hold the power to change minds, which in turns makes it fitting that writers teach people and advocate for social change as Arthur Miller does in his play, The Crucible. In the play, Reverend Hale represents Miller’s attempts to capture the panic in those realizing the wrongdoings of participating in McCarthy’s fraudulent efforts of eradicating Communism. Hale speaks “with a climatic desperation” (Text 1, the play) as he attempts to convince Judge Danforth that the hangings have to come to an end. Miller uses Hale to try to convince people to stop McCarthy as seen in Hale’s unfortunate, futile efforts towards the end of the play to stop the hanging of John Proctor. John Proctor is used to show how such accusations can “blacken” a name that one “cannot have another [one] in [his] life” (Text 1, the play); through John Proctor, Miller advocates for an end to the

By writing the play, he proves the importance of a writers thoughts on a social issue that others may be blinded to. In fact, his writing greatly contributed to taking McCarthy out of power. Miller’s words were written in hope that he could alleviate the fear that was present “with good reason, of being identified as covert Communists if they should protest too strongly” (Text 2, the article). Miller felt obligated to write about how “a clear moral outcry could still spring even from an ambiguously unblemished soul” (Text 2, the article), like John Proctor, to show people what they might have previously been afraid to see before: good people being unjustly accused of being Communist and their lives being ruined because of