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Reverend John Hale In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

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Psychology today shows that there are more good people than bad in the world. In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, there are plenty of good and bad people in this play. A character in The Crucible, Reverend John Hale, is a huge part in the play. Hale comes to get the bad out of salem but seems to find him self help creating it, but he has more good than the bad that he tries to bring. In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Reverend John Hale shows his pure soul through building knowledge of the people, doubting and quitting the court, and returning to salem to save the condemned. Reverend John Hale first proves his purity of soul through building knowledge of the people. Hale is new to salem so he really does not know anyone here other than by what people are saying …show more content…

Hale comes back to salem to fix the stuff he did when he was part of the court. In the jail, Reverend John Hale says angrily “Why, it is all 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” (57)! Hale is saying this because he feels responsible that all the good people in salem are accused. He just wants them to confess so they will not die over something that is not real. Still in the jail, Hale says helplessly “ You know, do you not, that I have no connection with the court?...I come of my own, Goody Proctor. I would save your husband’s life, for if he is taken i count myself his murderer. Do you understand me” (57)? This quote shows that Reverend John Hale feels bad about not being able to help Goody Proctor's husband and feels the need to take all responsibility. To end, Reverend John Hale proves he has a good soul by coming back to salem and fixing what he messed up in the

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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).

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When trying to save John Proctor, Hale tells Elizabeth, "You know, do you not, that I come of my own Goody Proctor" (Miller 206). Hale did not associate with the courts, he wanted to do what he viewed as

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(35) This shows that Hale is so involved in his work that he could possibly end up accusing someone who was not guilty of witchcraft. Hale seems overly conscious about his own life and his duty to serve the people to find the devil in Salem; he doesn’t seem to like the idea that he himself could be wicked. This shows that Hale too, did not show himself to be truthful and courteous when it came to the

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Just arriving in Salem, Rev. Hale is already the center of everyone’s attention; he was going to be the hero who finds the witch and brings back the holiness of the town. Hale was determined to find the truth and felt that he had to know everything about a person before they were convicted. When talking to John and Elizabeth Proctor, he mentions,” … I find it hard to draw a clear opinion of them that come accused before the court.” (Miller 63).

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Hale no longer believes in the witch trials. Everything Reverend Hale came to Salem for now no longer means anything to him. By this point Reverend Hale, among others, has become fed up with the pretense and falseness of ‘The Salem Witch Trials’ and wants nothing more than for it to be over. (page 84, act four, Miller, Arthur The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts, Viking Press 1953) “ HALE, quickly to Danforth: Excellency, it is enough he confess himself. Let him sign it, let him sign it.”

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He begins to try to convince Proctor and others to sign documents saying they are witches so that they can go free. Hale has returned to Salem because he feels guilty for signing the death warrants of many innocent people as he says, "There is blood on my head!"(Miller 131). He pleads with the judges again to give him more time or to pardon them as there are orphans walking around Salem, and the judges seem to know they are wrong also. Reverend Hale's last attempt to save Proctor is to try to have Elizabeth convince Proctor to confess. Proctor strongly considers it but tears the confession paper up as he does not want to ruin his family name.

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