The Crucible Reverend Hale Analysis

In Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, a good reputation is important to the characters. It was important to them to keep a good name for themselves and their families. A good reputation means that they can be trusted and they move up the social ladder. When faced with a big problem a person's true nature and motives can be exposed and that can have a serious impact on their reputation and when two similar men take on two completely different approach to such a big problem and of course it had big impacts on their reputation.
Reverend Parris and Reverend Hale are both men of faith; they consult their faith to make big decisions and guide their community with it. They are the spiritual guides of the community. Religion is a very important thing in the Puritan community and being the preachers they have a big influence on everyone else. Although they are both preachers they use their influence in different ways to push the story forward, ultimately ending up on opposing sides.
Parris and Hale are both very educated as shown by how they can both read the Bible and speak to a church crowd and make them fear God. When Hale had first arrived he used a book full of the descriptions and cures for ailments of demons and monsters to diagnose Betty as being affected by witchcraft. Although Reverend Parris isn’t as well read as Hale, he is still smart in his own …show more content…
While Parris is not well liked in Salem Hale works his hardest to help the accused and they loved him for his help; even if in the end they were to stubborn to accept it he tried his best to keep them from hanging especially with John Proctor. But ultimately in the end Reverend Parris was kicked out of his pulpit and his church left him behind. He was left an anxious shell of who he was after Abigail robbed him and he lost his