Reverend Hale Quotes

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“Real living is living for others.” This quote from Bruce Lee shows how others are more important than yourself. This reflects on the character Reverend Hale from the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Reverend Hale is a character that from a selfish person only caring about his work to a person who fights for others. He has such traits as selfishness, suspicious, and culpable ness.
When Reverend Hale is first shown in the play he is a very selfish but studious person. He carries a stack of books to show he is superior to the others around him. Hale at the beginning goes into Reverend Parris’ house and with him he bring along a stack of books that is for his job, Hale says,” Pray you, someone take these.” as Reverend Parris takes them, “Mr. Hale! Oh! It’s good to see you again! My, They’re heavy!” as Hale puts them down, “They must be; they are weighted with
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Hale comes back to town to try to fix the mess that he has put him and others in(look for quote and page).Dramatically, this shows that Hale is trying to do the right thing for the people surrounding him. Hale talks to the sentenced ones and tries to get them to confess so he doesn’t have the culpable ness on him anymore. Hale talks to John, but John denies his confession and rips it into shreds as Judge Danforth calls him out, as while Hale goes to Elizabeth to make John confess so he stays in her life(look for quote in the book). This shows that Hale really does care about the people being accused at the end of the book because of the culpable ness that he was put through in the later scenes. This compared to what Hale is like in the beginning of the play shows that he has changed from a really studious guy that only cares about his work to caring about the people around him and how they will affect his life in the long

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