Hale’s Change Have you ever been so confident in your work you get blinded by all the glory and forget to do what's right? well In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Hale is confident in his work at first but later on he feels guilty for not seeing that some people are actually telling the truth. Hale is confident about his work in the witch trials. He is talking to Parris about how wonderful his books are. Hale says to Parris, “They must be; they are weighted with authority” (36). He is talking about his books and why they are so heavy and big. Hale is telling Parris that his books are so amazing and that they hold all the answers. Without his books no one would be able to tell who's a witch. Everyone would be lost without his …show more content…
He is telling Mrs. Putnam how to do his job. Hale is very confident in his work in witchcraft. He is in the room talking with Giles. Mr. Putnam is talking about Betty. Hale says, “If the Devil is in her you will witness some frightful wonders in the room… Can you hear me? I am John Hale, minister of Beverly. I come to help you dear”(41). If Betty has the devil in her body then something odd will happen in her room. Hale is talking to them like he is a great master of witchcraft and talking to them, like if they did not have him no one would know what to do. Hale is realizing his mistake. Hale is talking to Danforth about justice. Hale says to the court “ I have this morning signed away the soul of Rebecca nurse, your honor i’ll not conceal if my head shakes yes as with a wound!” (100). Hale feels bad about the things he has signed off on and done. Hale is realizing his mistake and the pain he has caused. He is trying to fox it by telling the court he won't hide the pain he feels for the hurt he has caused on the people. Soon after, Hale is trying to get …show more content…
Hales says to Danforth, “Excellency, it is a neutral lie to tell; I beg you, stop now before now before another is condemned!...By man oath to heaven. I believe him now” (114). Hale is telling Danforuth that it is a lie in this gossip and is begging him to not kill any more people because he lives with John now. Hale Believes John about Abby and is trying to get Danfourth to see what he sees so Danfourth will stop killing people for no reason. After Hale spoke Danforth is sending John Proctor and Corey to jail. Hale announces, “I denounce these proceedings, I quit this court!” (120). Hale is done with the court because no one will listen to him. Hale quit the court because no one would listen to him about John being innocent. Hale quit the court because Danforth was convicting people that did not do anything and it goes against his law. Hale was trying to fix what he did wrong. Hale feels guilty and wants to try and fix his mistake. Hale and Hathorne are fighting about who is guilty and who is not. Hale says to Danforth, “Excellency there are orphans wandering from house...the stink of rotting crops hangs everywhere, and no man knows when the harlot’s cry will end his life” (130). Kids are house hopping because you have killed
[And that] they are innocent!” (IV, 1104). Throughout the entire play Hale tries to gather evidence that will lead him to the truth, only to be disregarded by Danforth. If the courts had listened to Hale and been as concerned with the truth as he was many innocent people would have
Reverend Hale is shown trying to give John the best representation he can get in order to have a chance to win the court. If Hale didn’t want John to succeed, he never would’ve offered Proctor this chance to Danforth. He starts to show his doubts in all the girls during this scene and the court's
It had come to the point where most of the whole town was being convicted and he had a full understanding that the girls were lying about people the whole time. Hale also states, “I would save your husband life for if he is taken I count myself a murderer.” (Miller 55) This quote From hale shows the guilt he has toward the victims. He felt as if he was guilty because he was a big part of the judgments at first.
In the beginning of the play, Hale is summoned to Salem in need of help with witchcraft. He is summoned by Reverend Parris. The reasoning for this summoning is because of some girls that were discovered in the woods dancing. When Hale arrives he treats Betty for witchcraft and he believes that the state that she is in is from witchcraft.
Constantly he is being tested by if he should believe the truth or believe what he was taught. In the end Hale decides to run with the truth and bring justice to the innocent lives that have been lost. On page 1268 of The Crucible, Hale says, “Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came into this village like a bridgegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I dence, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up.” By the end of the play Hale is changed into a man who sees behind the lies and trickery that are occurring in the
When Mary Warren breaks under the pressure of the courts and accuses Proctor of being a witch Hale, is pushed to his final straw. Hale yells at the top of his lungs, “I denounce these proceedings, I quit this court!” (199). This shows that Hale has had enough of the court’s shortcomings and decides ultimately to leave. Several months after leaving Salem, Hale returns because he wishes to save the people he damned.
By the end of the play Mr. Hale believes that he will be damned for the role that he played in having innocent
(Miller 120), to get his name out of the court. Hale then set out to fix what he knows is
Hale watches as lies and false accusations destroy a good man like John Proctor. In the end, Hale comprehends his mistake: “I quit this court!” (Miller 64). Hale is a clear example of how people should not always follow what the majority perceives as true. It can end up being very far from the truth.
This mistake made him angry and it is already too late to go back on this mistake. Hale tells Proctor “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.” (138) Hale’s guilt made him quit the court for the injustice that he so strongly thought could never happen. He lets John know that he could still be saved by lying.
Also Hale had the chance to turn the trials around when he challenged the court by quitting it. Instead of quitting the court, he should have stayed and helped resolve the case. He knew that the court’s proceedings were wrong and inaccurate, but he did not have the courage to fight it out. This proves that Hale’s pride led to the catastrophic death of many innocent people because he did not stand up for his true beliefs: that these young girls were messing
His admiration of the court goes down as he sees more people being hanged and the stubbornness of the court. In the end, Hale knows that the law is not the entire aspect of creating a perfect society, no one in a society needs to follow the law entirely, and that authority does not always judge over everything. He has no more confidence in the idea of dominance of God over anything in life, and by that mean he loses his faith to the court. Not just those, he doesn’t carry the heavy written laws since the beginning. When Hale loses his faith towards the court and the society, he earns empathy and respect from us the readers and proving how moral obligation plays a bigger role than civic duty when it comes to real difficulties in a
As the play progress and people confess he starts to notice that what people are saying and accusing people of is not true but just getting to people they do not like. Lastly, At the end of act 3, Hale quits the court. Hale quit the court because he knew that a lot of innocent people were getting killed for not confessing to a crime they did not
Knowing all of this, Hale becomes desperate to have Elizabeth save her husband and even wishes for him to sin in order to continue living as a role model for the people of Salem. Hale recognizes the significance of each accused on a personal level and he cannot bear to see them suffer for a crime they did not
Hale tries to back Mary up in court so the judge would hear her statement, but they wouldn’t take her deposition. “Your Honor, I cannot think you may judge the man on such evidence.” “Is every defense an attack upon the court?...” Hale starts to get angry with the way the judges are reacting to the people coming into the court to tell their stories. Hale eventually walks out on the court.