The Crucible
Beginning of paper
John Hale is the minister of Beverly, which has been summoned to Salem to discover and
extinguish supposed witchcraft in the town of Salem, Mass. in the colonial period. Hale
overgoes a gradual change of character and belief as the play unfolds. As a dynamic
character? Though a gradual change it ....
Middle of paper
.... since before the ending of Act One he already
mentally decides Salem is plagued with witchcraft, with or without concrete evidence to
support his allegation. Hale uses such scant evidence as Putnam’s death of her first seven
children and Giles’ wife reading of strange books which keep him from reciting the Lord’s
prayer. Ironically, he encounters, Tituba, after hearing that this Barbados slave had been
practicing voodoo with the afflicted girls. After Hale puts immense pre ....
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Page count: 10 (approximately 250 words per page)
