Reverend Hale In The Crucible

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The character Reverend Hale from The Crucible starts to feel the effects of the trials during Act two. Everyone in Salem has been shaken up by the arrests made and those who were accused by the girls. Even Elizabeth, John Proctor’s wife, was accused. But before she is arrested Hale goes to warn them, “Hear me. (He wets his lips.) I know not if you are aware, but your wife’s nameー is mentioned in court”(198). The stage directions written for him show that he is nervous about talking to the Proctors about the matter and perhaps even guilty. Later in their discussion Hale says, “(In great pain) Man, remember, until the hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven” (201). He has difficulty believing that Elizabeth is a witch