The Reverend

Guilt of a Broken Reverend Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live; Exodus 22:18. Upon Reverend Parris request I came to Salem with the fallacious facts from the heavy books, supposedly weighed with authority. Now we stand in front of God’s children who will hang from ropes. The nauseating, stale smell of the deceased raped my nose; not knowing if that smell or guilt desired me to vomit. They did not tell the lie I wished them. A pastor who pleads a Christian to lie? Ironic for only the…

Reverend Dimmesdale’s Transformation in The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays Reverend Dimmesdale as a man who cowardly strays away from the truth and cannot manage the shame that he has brought upon himself in The Scarlet Letter. In a moment of vulnerability, Dimmesdale falls in love with Hester Prynne who then bores his child, even though they are not married. In the eyes of this puritanical community, Hester has sinned against God. To punish her, the heads of the town force her to…

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…

Miller, was brought down by listening to the people around him instead of looking at the facts right under his nose. Reverend Hale was brought to Salem to investigate witchcraft, and he is motivated to find justice. His flaws of being easily manipulated, lack of clarity with morals, and overconfidence have led him to his ultimate downfall of “killing” many accused people. Reverend Hale’s first flaw is his lack of clarity with morals. Throughout the play, he proves to be morally ambiguous. In…

topic one- response- Reverend John Hale played an important role in encouraging and promoting the Witch Trials. He was called in to town by Paris to determine if it was really witch craft that cause the girls to become ill. In the beginning he was an avid believer of witchcraft. As it says in the passage above, he is a well educated man who has studied the subject plenty, and has even experienced "witches" in person. He was confident in himself to correctly weed out witches in the beginning. As…

the colony, a special court was put in place with the aim of listening to the presented issue. Before getting to Salem witch trial hearing, it is significant to explain how the whole scenario came into being. In the year 1692, the month of January, Reverend Parris’…

Towards the middle, Reverend Hale started noticing flaws in the court and the story of witchcraft which led him to be skeptical. One evening, Hale went to John Proctor’s house to investigate John’s wife, Elizabeth, for symptoms of witchcraft since she was mentioned of having witchcraft in the court. During that night, Elizabeth told John to tell Hale about how Abigael mentioned that witchcraft was fake. Hale shockingly says, “Abigail Williams told you it had naught to do with witchcraft” (pg 69)…

Reverend John Hale is a dynamic character in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Readers are can learn about him through Miller’s own descriptions along with Hale’s actions throughout the novel. Reverend John Hale is a man of prestige in the town who is seen to be an expert of supernatural beings; due to the deadly events of the trials, Hale’s guilt forces him to reject the teaching of his church. Hale is introduced as an intellectual, yet, kindhearted man who is called into Salem to investigate the…

the internal struggles the characters face during the trials, all of 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…

the “right” thing to do, and the determination of what’s right and wrong is based off of one's morals. The motif of morality, and its effects on the human condition, is presented in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible. In his play, Miller establishes Reverend John Hale as a dynamic character and shows how he changes from being obligated to the church, his actual job, to being obligated to help the people of Salem due to moral reasons; Miller traces this change in order to convey the idea that…