The Reverend

the house. In this book, Reverend John Nicola makes two claims that there is not enough evidence to prove the story is true, and the house is haunted by the ghost or demon. With the SEARCH strategy, there was not enough evidence to prove these claims. It signifies the authors would be able to lie to make this book and the house is not haunted, they just used their imaginations to stimulate the readers. The first claim is the possibility of the fake story even though Reverend Nicola says it is a…

can cause. Reverend John Hale of Beverly comes to Salem to help the witch trials, but comes face to face to people being hanged for denying of being witch and living if they confess. People were being wrongly accused on the count of children. In Puritan beliefs a minister is very important figure. If someone were to go against the court will the title of a minister help the one in need of saving? The corruption of a court can change the way someone sees the court, this is case of Reverend Hale.…

think that they're doing the right thing.” In The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, Reverend Hale has been called in by Reverend Parris to diagnose witchcraft in the town of Salem. Naturally, Hale is a man of intellect and strong conviction. He signed seventy-two death warrants for the people who have been accused of witchcraft by their neighbors. After all, he truly believed that he was doing the right thing. Reverend Hale is a very dynamic character in The Crucible because at first, he…

school where learner to read and write. Congregationalist doctrine, unlike that of the Church of England at the time. Her prized possession was a bound volume of the Dissenter’s Theological Magazine and Review, in which the family's pastor, the Reverend James Wheaton, had published two essays. Their father Richard often took Mary and Joseph her brother on fossil-expeditions to make more money for the family. The family continued collecting and selling fossils together,…

is often easily to identify, and is often one of the main characters. However, in this play there are many arguments on whether or not John Proctor is the tragic hero of this story. Many believe that in this play Reverend Hale is the tragic hero.In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Reverend Hale solidifies his role as the tragic hero by overcoming his flaw of arrogance and evolving and growing throughout the play, showing that in order for change to happen, one must begin to accept their flaws. In…

blameworthy of witchcraft. An immense amount of rumors, hatred and confusion resided in town which later on results in the killing of 19 people. Certain characters lead to a rising hysteria of witchcraft in the town and one of those characters is Reverend John Hale. Reverend Hale is a person who masters in solving witchcraft cases, he is a unique character who plays an important role throughout the story.…

In Arthur Miller’s The crucible, Reverend Hale’s character changes dramatically over the course of the play. The town of Salem was overrun with fears of witchcraft, so they called in a renowned witch hunter, Reverend Hale. When Mr.Hale initially came to Salem, he brought the attitude that there was definitely witchery present in the town. But,the longer Hale stayed in Salem, he realized that his first thought may not have been true. By the time the play ended, the Reverend’s mind had been…

care how it affects them or anyone else, because they have become desensitized to the fact that sinning is a serious matter. In The Scarlet Letter Reverend Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth have both fallen into sin and now they must deal with the consequences. When it came to the reading of The Scarlet Letter plenty of people would realize that Reverend Dimmesdale was affected the most with his sin, and keeping that sin a secret throughout the novel was obviously a very difficult task. As the…

Rather than follow intuition, Reverend Dimmesdale’s lack of appealing to his intuitive side is what creates his situation of suffering inside. Laurie Sterling’s “Individual and Society in The Scarlet Letter” further analyzes the internal struggle occurring within Dimmesdale: He [Dimmesdale] is a prisoner of societal codes: “At the head of the social system … he was the only more trammeled by its regulations, its principles, and even its prejudices.” Thus, even when he and Hester resolve to flee…

being a witch that 19 of them were hanged, which the last three people named Goody Corey, Rebecca Nurse, and John Proctor left a heavy burden on Salem, Massachusetts. One of those people who carried a deep burden was Reverend Hale. In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Reverend Hale has failed at saving John Proctor 's life in which his death made Hale to take the Bible in a different way. Hale has changed his Puritan way throughout The Crucible that in the beginning, middle, and end he…