Reverend Hale To Elizabeth Proctor Tryi
“Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up. Beware, Goody Proctor - cleave to no faith when faith brings blood. It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice. Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. I beg you, woman, prevail upon your husband to confess. Let him give his lie. Quail not before God's judgement in this, for it may well be God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride. Will you plead with him? I cannot think he will listen to another.”
One of the points made by this quote is “Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood” is one of the points that Reverend Hale is trying to make which basically states that; stay with no religion aka “Faith” if it means to hurt others. Where he doesn’t believe in a faith that promotes making others suffer or the act of doing something wrong. When it does do so, it is when it ceases to be a religion. Although I feel like Hale’s logic isn’t entirely accurate. Hale is basically stating that a religion must be in his definition “pure” of all things deemed evil by his religious standards. But there are many religions that are based off of Satanism which led wretched acts of cruelty. Where people in order to practice what they believe in, leads them through a path of bestiality. This has been shown through the history of religion, and like burning people alive along with hanging. These are cruel acts done on people that have broken the rules of their social laws.
But I think the main point of that is being portrayed through the quote itself. “Life, woman, life is god’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.” This is where he is trying to say
One of the points made by this quote is “Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood” is one of the points that Reverend Hale is trying to make which basically states that; stay with no religion aka “Faith” if it means to hurt others. Where he doesn’t believe in a faith that promotes making others suffer or the act of doing something wrong. When it does do so, it is when it ceases to be a religion. Although I feel like Hale’s logic isn’t entirely accurate. Hale is basically stating that a religion must be in his definition “pure” of all things deemed evil by his religious standards. But there are many religions that are based off of Satanism which led wretched acts of cruelty. Where people in order to practice what they believe in, leads them through a path of bestiality. This has been shown through the history of religion, and like burning people alive along with hanging. These are cruel acts done on people that have broken the rules of their social laws.
But I think the main point of that is being portrayed through the quote itself. “Life, woman, life is god’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.” This is where he is trying to say