Crucible Literary Analysis

David Stier
9-15-03
Mrs. Morrison
English

Crucible Literary Analysis

In the time of Indians, fur hunters, and the British, there was a village in the colony of Massachusetts. In the 1950’s a man named Arthur Miller wrote a play about what tragedies occurred in this village. The book was about the Salem witch trials in none other that Salem Massachusetts. The book has many characters and many messages, but what we will be focusing on is a character named Reverend Hale. Reverend Hale is the most dynamic character of the play. Toward the beginning of the play, Reverend Hale believes that there very well could be witches in Salem Massachusetts, but towards the middle he believes that not all of the accused are witches, and finally he realizes that none of this is true and it’s all just because of Abigail’s greed.

At the end of act one, when Reverend Hale first makes his appearance, he makes it obvious that he has no doubt that there could be witch...