Marco Serrano Mrs. Shrock English 11 29 September 2015 Detailed Study on Reverend Hale Have you ever thought to yourself that you were once an intelligent individual until your ego ruin everyone else’s lives? Well, Reverend John Hale did so during the play “The Crucible.” Reverend Hale devoted his life to study witchcraft, he was requested by one of the characters from the play to look for suspicious witchcraft involvement with the girls from the woods, and then everything got blown out of proportion. At the end of the play, his attitude towards such accusations from innocent people has changed drastically. First, Reverend Hale arrives in Salem. He was called upon request by Reverend Parris to examine or diagnose Betty, Reverend Parris’s daughter. Hale took this very serious. “... Have no fear now- we shall find him out if he has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!” (185/Hale) This clearly shows that he’s determined to find the devil, or “Lucifer” as they call it, and he demonstrably wants to prove everyone why they call him the “witch-hunter.” He also likes the attention he’s getting. Needless to say, he’s enjoying this very much. …show more content…
He then came across the Proctor’s household and ended up talking to John Proctor who was accused of being the “devil’s man.” “Think on cause, man, and let you help me to discover it. For there's your way, believe it, there is your only way, when such confusion strikes upon the world.” Hale trust John Proctor and his words. He sees that he’s not ignorant and doesn’t jump to conclusions about the circumstances that’s currently happening in