John Hale

“I mean to crush him utterly.” Reverend John Hale said this when he talked about the Devil. Reverend Parris invited Reverend John Hale of Beverly to Salem to find witches. Reverend Hale thinks he is the best at his job and will not stop until he finds them. John Hale like myself is prideful, excited and arrogant. John Hale and I are very prideful. Reverend John Hale showed his pride by stating in the first act, that he knew what to do. After Reverend Parris invited him, he came to Salem to hunt for witches and talked very digintley. I am very prideful, when I play baseball I always have the same walk up routine. I also fake bunt on the first pitch of my first at bat every game to get the infielders on their toes, sometime make them nervous.…

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…

Reverend Hale vs John Proctor In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, there are two main characters, Reverend Hale and John Proctor. Both of them are portrayed as two very well respected men in the play. They both play a big role in this play, as Hale is an intellect and an expert in witchcraft, while Proctor is a farmer who stands against witchcraft. Ultimately, Hale helps Proctor by siding with him when Proctor was accused of witchcraft. However, Proctor chooses his own fate and he is…

the people involved have important decisions to make. Despite all of this, Reverend John Hale stays true to his beliefs. As he continues to stand up for what he believes is right, Reverend John Hale is not responsible for the mass hysteria that leads to the Salem witch trials. Reverend John Hale is an intellectual person who is not willing to condemn anyone without hard evidence. When John Proctor signs a deposition for Judge Danforth stating that the girls who started the witch trials are…

At the beginning of The Crucible, Reverend Hale is an honorable man. He is considered to be the most intelligent man of his learnings. He shows his intelligence when he comes to Salem with his educational books full of all things of witchery and evil knowings. When he examined Betty for the Devils Mark, he used his books for support. He took his job very professionally. He did this to keep his name of a wise man. Hale starts to deteriorate when he notices the girls lies. Going against the…

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…

Reverend John Hale: Sublime or Sinister? As Marilyn Manson so wisely said, “A lot of people don’t want to make their own decisions. They’re too scared. It’s much easier to be told what to do.” He’s right. No matter their level of apprehension, most people do what they’re told or asked to do, forever influenced by others’ opinions. A good literary example of this is in the character, Reverend John Hale, from Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible”. At the beginning of the story, he is swayed by…

John Hale: A Tragic Hero Arthur Miller’s The Crucible symbolises the events that took place in the 1950s known as the, “Red Scare”. This event is what inspired Miller to write The Crucible. In a creative fashion, this was Miller’s way to criticize the paranoia surrounding the overly conservative American government. Using his greatest weapon, the pen, Miller was able to compose the historical character, John Proctor, in the spitting image of Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero (Posses a…

readers that people had to chose between good or bad. Perhaps more than any other character in The Crucible, Reverend John Hale best represents the title with the changes he demonstrated throughout the play. Being called to Salem as a “witch hunter,” at first he fell for Abigail’s accusations of witchcraft. Gradually, though, he realized he had been tricked. He tried to make everything better, but sometimes in life, you can’t. In Act I, Reverend John Hale is introduced when he comes to Salem to…

Reverend Hale and John Proctor Written in the 1950s, Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible delineates the situation of the McCarthyism conflicts in America while the plays’ events itself revolve around the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. In the play, two major characters are Reverend Hale, an “expert on witches” sent to Salem for investigation, and John Proctor, a man known for his leadership and hard work. Proctor and Hale, other than both being Puritans, are alike in their actions and motives…