The Crucible John Hale Analysis

The Changes of John Hale In the play The Crucible, Arthur Miller uses very strong characters to depict their personality. One character he uses is John Hale. John Hale went through a lot of changes within the play. In the beginning he is all into the witch hunt. Originally he comes to participate in the witch hunt because he believes Satan is here with his “lieutenants”. Him along with the others feels that there are spirits around them. He believes strongly in this until later when he starts to realize that everything that has been happening in Salem has been a lie and it's causing all hell to break lose. Mr Hale is a God loving man and he strongly opposes of the Devil. When Mr. Hale comes to the town he soon began his inspecting. He tries to figure out what's wrong with Betty and he doesn't surely knows exactly what's wrong with her but he continues to investigate. He ask Abigail questions about Betty until Abigail told them it was Tituba. When he speaks to Tituba he wants to know if she called up the devil. After asking her numerous times she finally confesses and this starts something big in the town of Salem. he remarks, “It is a clue” (Miller 47). He starts to …show more content…
Mainly were all innocent. Some even confessed even though it wasn't true so that they can live others didn't because they knew that it wasn't true. For example Rebecca Nurse was accused of killing the Putnam children and that explains why she has so many of her own. Mr Hale did not start to have the realization until after he went to Proctor's house. Although many of people have confessed, Proctor tells him, “And why not, if they must hang for denyin’ it? There are them that will swear to anything before they’ll hang; have you never thought of that?” (Miller 72) Here Proctor is explaining to Mr. Hale that anyone will confess a lie if it means it saves their life. And he wants to know has Mr Hale ever considered that he he says he