John Hale Character Analysis Essay

This world is filled with deception, hatred, and so many abominations. There is a thin line dividing the good of this planet from all of the roots of evil. This has been reflected throughout many novels and literatures in all of human history. One of the most iconic being The Crucible, with its sharp and realistic tone, the novel shifted the reader’s heart into a realistic perspective to how actual peoples emotions are. Though all these characters contained unique emotions that resembled us in a way, which we could bond with them from a familiar style. One character particularly caught my mind and took my breath away by how vast he changed from the beginning perspective of the story to the final fragments of the novel. John Hale is a man …show more content…
In an extended commentary on Hale in Act I, Miller describes him as “a tight-skinned, eager-eyed intellectual. This is a beloved errand for him; on being called here to ascertain witchcraft he has felt the pride of the specialist whose unique knowledge has at last been publicly called for.” When Hale first appears in Act I he shows up with an enormous book and with large confidence in his gestures. He even remarks when someone says wow your book looks heavy, “They must be; they are weighted with authority” (Act 1, Miller). The begging Acts of the novel Hale is desperately looking for clues and confessions of Witchcraft as well as giving support to people to testify. This is where the young manipulative juvenile females take action and use his overwhelming capability in the justice department to accuse certain citizens of Salem of witchcraft. Now Hale being unaware and believing upon their confessions believes they are telling the truth and convicts countless of people. Now during his own private investigation, he encounters something that changed his heart and his soul for