A whole town is taken over by the devil, and your limited education decides their fate. Reverend Hale is a very influential man in Salem in Arthur Miller's, The Crucible, as he was the only person truly knowledgeable about the devil. Everything Hale said Salem believed leading to false beliefs and many preventable deaths and unfairness through trials. Reverend Hale should be pitied because he actually wants to help people, he wants to fix the blood on his hands, and he is fighting against the wrongful Court. When Hale was called into the village, he always had the intention to help people. Hale was just doing his job asking the accused questions by trying to get a helpful answer to the cause. Hale was just trying to do his job and had no intent for anybody to die. He tried to help Tituba by saying, “You are God's instrument put in our hands to discover the Devil's agents among us. You are selected, Tituba, you are chosen to help us cleanse our village" (Miller 46). Later, Hale tells Elizabeth, “I beg you, woman, prevail upon your husband to confess. Let him give his lie” (Miller 131). Hale wanted to help Elizabeth get out of jail by trying to make her confess, since Hale knew she would be …show more content…
The court was trusting everything they heard and unfairly convicting. Hale realized that everything that the accusers said was seen as an attack sparking the question, “Is every defense an attack upon the court” (Miller 95). During the unfair trials he realized that no accused citizen had a lawyer present making the trial more impossible to win. Hale makes the statement, "In God’s name, sir, stop here; send him home and let him come again with a lawyer" (Miller 99), but he was ignored. After many innocent people were imprisoned based on wild and obscure accusations, Hale screamed, “I quit this court!” (Miller 120), to get his name out of the court. Hale then set out to fix what he knows is