Crucible

Reverend Hale and Reverend Parris are both presented in The Crucible, with many different as well as similar views of the witchcraft trials. At the beginning Hale was sure that there were witches among the people in the town, but he later comes to realize that honest, good people are being executed. Both Reverend Hale and Reverend Parris were eager and sought to find out the ones who committed witchery. Hale wanted Proctor to confess because he felt he would take the blame himself if Proctor were to be hanged. Hale tells Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, “I would save your husbands life, for if he is taken I count myself his murderer” (Miller, 131). Hale came to the town believing that he knew all about witchcraft, what he did not realize was that it can destroy lives whether it is with the truth or a lie. By the end of the play he reali...