Character Analysis Of Reverend Hale In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

This is a character essay on the “The Crucible”. The character I have chosen to be my subject of this essay is Reverend Hale. This essay is going to be over seven parts of this character’s life. His background, problems and concerns, development through the story, first impressions, what he thinks of himself, what others think of him, and what he thinks of others.

Background He is a man in his forties from the town of Beverly. After his experience with a mother and her child that was afflicted with a behavior change that he allegedly cured within a few days with his kindness and a few days of rest. This even in his lie caused him to start pondering the invisible world more than ever and in return became he well respected specialist

Problems And Concerns

Mr. Hale has plenty of faults in his character like everyone else. Some of his more serious concerns is that his trusts in the courts is way too strong and coupled with the fact he is proud of his specialties and very religious. this make near impossible for

anyone to not be convicted of witchcraft if something bad happens in his presence.

Another major fault Is that he knows that he people he is gathering and sending to jail by siding with Abigail could be innocent the proof of this is in this quote “I-I have, indeed”. This was said in response o that the people will agree to being witches if they can live longer by saying it

Development through the story

At the beginning he believed that Salem was being messed with by the devil himself and that Abigail was is pointing out all the witches throughout Salem and later as the number of victims being put in jail has increased it started to make him question his opinion of Abigail, there methods of exposing witches and, his trust of the court and the confession of Mary warren caused him to completely change. Now he believes that

Abigail is a fake and he is now trying to save Elizabeth

While the court, the girls and

Mr. Parris I would say dislike him slightly now because of the dis agreement he had with the court trying to disprove Abigail

What He Thinks of Them

He has some suspicion in town like his old friend Mr. Parris, who replaced the old church candles with gold ones because he didn’t find then good enough. He also has suspicions with Mr. Proctor because of him not going to church every Sunday. The girls prosecuting he didn’t believe after a while because of Mary warren and the number of

“witches” they found. The victims of the court he started to believe was innocent now because of the conversation he had with john proctor. He started to question the court now because of the new evidence.

What He Thinks of Himself

He views himself as a very intelligent man that has a great understand of the world of witches and witchery. He also views himself as a religious official. He also thinks he should be treated with the upmost respect.

First Impressions

My first impressions of Mr. hale was that he was a very regions man because of all the books he brings when he was first introduced to the story. He might have been a