The Changes in Reverend Hale

Though out the play there are many different types of people. There are some people that realize what they are doing is wrong, and people that now something is wrong but don't now what to do to fix it. Hale is one of the people that has changed to most though out the play. when he arrives he is this get the job done kind of guy. As the play progresses he changes to the type of person that has changed.

In act  four Hale shows up after being gone for three months. He said that he came back to try to get the accused to confess. he want the all to confess to save themselves from being hanged. When Danforth asks him why he has returned he says in a sarcastic voice "why,it is all simple. I come to do the Devils work. I come to counsel Christians they should belie themselves...There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!!". He knows what he did early was wrong and he is trying to fix it the only why he know how, by coning back and talking to as many people as he can to get them to confess.



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Reverend Hale

Reverend Hale is a minister from Beverly, a neighboring town to Salem. When he arrives in Salem he is there to see if Betty and the other girls are affected by witchcraft. Parris asks Hale why the devil would strike his house. "What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who better than the Minister?" When he says this he is already sure that Betty has been affected by the so called "witches" he is just looking for proof of it.

As the story continues Hale realizes that all the girls are all faking it and are convicting innocent people. At the end of act three Hale yells out "I denounce these proceedings, I quite this court!" As this act comes to a close you see that Hale has gone and done a complete hundred and eighty degree turn and changed for the better.