Character Analysis Of Reverend John Hale: 'The Man Who Took Salem By Storm'
Elliot Anderson
Cox
IB Junior English
13 October 2014
Wind, Rain and Hale: The Man Who Took Salem by Storm Reverend John Hale, from Arthur Miller 's The Crucible, is a Puritan minister from Beverly who is called to Salem to investigate the accusations of witchery. He plays a significant part within the play and you witness his transformation from [he is transformed from a; you is second person, which is informal] seemingly knowledgeable professor of the invisible world to a weeping pile of guilt and regret. Hale goes through [undergoes; more vocabularic] a massive amount of growth and change through the various acts starting from a confidant, knowledgeable man to a disillusioned and frantic man just trying to save lives. In Act One …show more content…
Hale continues to try and be the calming voice of reasoning. He advocates that the court hear all possible evidence explaining to Judge Danforth "… he claims hard evidence for his wife 's defense. I think that in all justice your must…" (182) before he is cut off. Oftentimes in this Act he is interrupted and his opinion disregarded. [The judges interrupt him and disregard his opinion. ; Passive voice] Slowly and slowly he becomes more and more fed up with the pompous proceedings. The judges often disregard him, [with; make it flow] Danforth saying [remarking; don 't use say] "… for a man of such terrible learning you are most bewildering…" (188) completely dismissing Hale 's call for lawyers to debate the case of witchcraft. Nearing the end of the Act Hale is stuck by the courts callous and accepting nature of Abigail 's claims. He states "… This girl has always struck me as false!" (195) which is quite the heel-face turn from the beginning of the play. In the end of this act he is disgusted by the actions of the courts yelling his famous line "I denounce these proceedings. I quit this court!" …show more content…
The jails are full, Abigail ran away, and Hale has gone soul-searching. He returns to Salem in an attempt to save people 's lives. Over the months his own paradigms have changed from a lawful religious man to a pleading cynical man who values human lives over his beliefs. Parris explains why Hale has returned to Salem to Danforth "… and he pleads with them, confess their crimes and save their lives." (203). While Parris thinks he comes to make them confess to the "crime" but really he comes to save their lives because he knows they are innocent. He blames himself for the deaths of those innocent people outright proclaiming "There is blood on my head!" (205). Hale is distraught with guilt and at the end had become a giant weeping man who is so affected by the terrible deeds done in
Cox
IB Junior English
13 October 2014
Wind, Rain and Hale: The Man Who Took Salem by Storm Reverend John Hale, from Arthur Miller 's The Crucible, is a Puritan minister from Beverly who is called to Salem to investigate the accusations of witchery. He plays a significant part within the play and you witness his transformation from [he is transformed from a; you is second person, which is informal] seemingly knowledgeable professor of the invisible world to a weeping pile of guilt and regret. Hale goes through [undergoes; more vocabularic] a massive amount of growth and change through the various acts starting from a confidant, knowledgeable man to a disillusioned and frantic man just trying to save lives. In Act One …show more content…
Hale continues to try and be the calming voice of reasoning. He advocates that the court hear all possible evidence explaining to Judge Danforth "… he claims hard evidence for his wife 's defense. I think that in all justice your must…" (182) before he is cut off. Oftentimes in this Act he is interrupted and his opinion disregarded. [The judges interrupt him and disregard his opinion. ; Passive voice] Slowly and slowly he becomes more and more fed up with the pompous proceedings. The judges often disregard him, [with; make it flow] Danforth saying [remarking; don 't use say] "… for a man of such terrible learning you are most bewildering…" (188) completely dismissing Hale 's call for lawyers to debate the case of witchcraft. Nearing the end of the Act Hale is stuck by the courts callous and accepting nature of Abigail 's claims. He states "… This girl has always struck me as false!" (195) which is quite the heel-face turn from the beginning of the play. In the end of this act he is disgusted by the actions of the courts yelling his famous line "I denounce these proceedings. I quit this court!" …show more content…
The jails are full, Abigail ran away, and Hale has gone soul-searching. He returns to Salem in an attempt to save people 's lives. Over the months his own paradigms have changed from a lawful religious man to a pleading cynical man who values human lives over his beliefs. Parris explains why Hale has returned to Salem to Danforth "… and he pleads with them, confess their crimes and save their lives." (203). While Parris thinks he comes to make them confess to the "crime" but really he comes to save their lives because he knows they are innocent. He blames himself for the deaths of those innocent people outright proclaiming "There is blood on my head!" (205). Hale is distraught with guilt and at the end had become a giant weeping man who is so affected by the terrible deeds done in