The Crucible; Good Intentions

Reverend Hale admits to himself that he may have started the witch trials in Salem, feeling guilty Hale strives to save anyone that he can from being hung. After some time, Reverend Hale realizes that the witch accusations are driven by ulterior motives. He feels guilty because he is the one who confirmed that the presence of the devil is in the town of Salem, causing fear to overcome many people. Hale exclaims, “There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!!”(Miller 131). He believes that because he started the unjust trials he is the one to blame for the execution of innocents. Hale is convinced that if he had never gotten involved then the witch trials may have never occurred. In an attempt to fix the problem he created,

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Reverend Hale’s attitude and beliefs are changed completely as the play progresses. After Reverend Parris is a witness to girls dancing in the woods and also when his daughter becomes very ill, he calls Rev. Hale to Salem. Hale’s job is to find any form of witchcraft and to get rid of it. Over the course of the play, Rev. Hale experiences a transformation in his beliefs from the beginning of the play to the end. Reverend Hale has three different emotions throughout the play. When Hale is introduced in the the beginning of the play, he is passionate and very confident about finding witchcraft and getting rid of it. In the middle of the play, Hale is frustrated and he does not know who to trust nor

Sometimes the truth is hard to see, but if you look hard enough you can always find it. Reverend Hale’s intention was to help the town of Salem find the truth. He thought he found it quickly, but then realized that he was wrong. Coming to this realization caused him to look at the problem in a different way. Once he found this, he did everything that he could to help anyone that was accused. Reverend Hale changed from being accusatory to helping the accused.

One of authority figure in The Crucible, was Reverend Hale. Hale went to Salem in response in need of a “spiritual doctor” to evaluate the town. The reason he was summoned was to diagnose if there was witchcraft was present, then come up with a cure by removing the “infected people”, and the people of Salem will not be satisfied until he does. In result to all the commotion of unnatural events taking in place in Salem such as: Tituba’s ability to conjure spirits from beyond the grave, dancing in the woods, the death of the seven children who belonged to Thomas and Ann Putman, Betty’s illness, the strange book that were in possession of Martha Corey, and so on. Hale starts to become

This course began with the reading of The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The play’s main character Abigail, was a person that always thought about herself and anything she did was to benefit herself. She had been in love with John Proctor, who horribly was married. Yet, he did have an affair with Abigail. Towards the middle of the play, Abigail accuses Elizabeth, John’s wife that she has been practicing witchcraft which was extremely sinister back in those times. She just wanted Elizabeth to get taken away, even killed just so that John would be all hers and no one else’s. To the people of the town, she did good, however John, Elizabeth, and Abigail knew why she did

Reverend Hale believes that his faith will lead him to the truth in Salem, but he will soon realise that corruption can destroy anyone's faith.

Hale first came to Salem to find any evidence of witchcraft, as he is an expert near by, but as the play continues he questions whether or not witchcraft is lurking there. As more and more people in the town are accused for not confessing, he begins to think there is no witchcraft in Salem and the people are indeed innocent. He shows his haziness by stating “Excellency, I have signed seventy-two death warrants; I am a minister of the Lord, and I dare not take a life without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it” (Miller 514). He started seeing people being hanged who he knew could not have committed the sin of witchcraft that they were accused of, but Abigail’s word was always believed because she was known as the victim. He believed that he was doing his best for the town as the play began, but his suspicions began to emerge later. Hale is an expert in witchcraft because he wants to help undo the Devil’s work. Hale, throughout the play, is shown trying to get the ones convicted to confess and let God into their lives again. As more innocent individuals are hanged he realizes that he is no longer helping people, but only causing harm. Hale states,"Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it."(Miller). He said that the greatest gift is life itself, as he took many of the lives away

The human mind is far more complex than humans themselves realize. We lie, cheat, deceive, betray, riot, and attack based on either good reasons or irrational panic that set in after something unique defies the laws of what is considered normal. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller presents the idea that misguided motives lead to decisions that wrong others by fearing what they don’t understand.

Changes by Reverend Hale In the play The Crucible, Reverend Hale undergoes many changes over the course of the play. We as the reader's experience this from the introduction of the character to the end of the play. Reverend Hale is one of the main characters that we see throughout the play. We also get to see the trials through his own eyes. Hale relies on his intellect in the beginning of the play.

What is your motivation? Wealth? Power? Good reputation? How about the truth? In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, all of these desires are common. Two Puritan ministers, Reverend Parris and Reverend Hale, have one similar motivation, the people of Salem, but they also have very different motivations, like reputation and truth, which are exposed as the play unfolds.

Witchcraft and Elizabeth gets put in jail. Abigail thinks that now since johns wife is

My grandfather, Sie Jewell, is a good man. He served in the military as a marine when he was young, protecting the higher ranked men around him in the Philippines. When Sie got out of the military he took a full time job at General Electric, working there by day. Then, he came home for a short time to eat dinner when he would depart to go to the fire station. He volunteered there, not as a fighter, but as a volunteer fire chief. He is a trustworthy, honorable man. These qualities greatly contrast with the qualities of people in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and the common man. This play illustrates everything bad in humanity with the lie of the Salem Witch Trials, and the story of how it happened. It shows that human instinct hard wires evil

Arthur Miller shows that reputation is more important than integrity in “The Crucible” through character development and dialogue.

I thought I was doing what was right and I believed everything I did was in the name of God. I believed all the evil I removed from this world was what God wanted and for the most part it was true. All the witches I condemned to the rope was for a good cause and the evidence against them was so evil it could not be ignored. All the deaths I ordered never left a toll on my conscience as I knew it was Gods wish. But, when I arrived in Salem it felt different, it was not like any town went to before.

When given a prodigious amount of power, an individual may lose their sense of morality. Events in Arthur Miller's The Crucible represent aspects of the post-1970 world, such as the Rwandan Genocide.