Reverend John Hale although at first is a rough man on the people of Salem, turns out to be a man of morals, and also becomes one of the few people who use's common sense threw out the witch trials. Reverend John Hale is first introduced into the play "The Crucible", as a rough man, known for his talent to seek out witches. All during act one, Reverend Hale examines the girls, and questions their story. During the whole story there are three specific times when Reverend Hale rises up in the town and displays skepticism and common sense.

The first major time in-which Reverend Hale uses common sense instead of believing the fiction of what everyone is claiming occurs when Reverend Hale is discussing John Proctors case to Judge Danforth. Reverend Hale starts the conversation out by saying:

"Hale: We cannot blink it more. There is prodigious fear of this court in the country. Danforth: Then there is a prodigious guilt in the country; Are you afraid to be questioned here? Hale: I may only fear the Lord, sir, but there is fear in the country nevertheless. Danforth: Reproach me not with the fear in the country; there is fear in the country because there is a moving plot to to

pple Christ in the country! Hale: But it does not follow that everyone accused is part of it."

Reverend Hale is pleading to Elizabeth to convince him to lie in-order to not die. Hale knows completely well that Proctor isn't guilty, and that the only reason he is going to hang is because of his shame. Hale also knows it's not right and that there is a flaw in the court. There is no reason that such a good man dies because he confesses his innocence and refuses to convict others, rather than being free if he confesses his guilt.

"Hale: Women, plead with him. Woman! It is pride, it is vanity. He drops to his knees. Be his helper!-What profit him to bleed? Shall dust praise him? Shall the worms declare his truth? Go to him, take his shame away!"

Because of the three instances above, it is easy to see that Reverend Hale is a good man who has morals and uses common sense, even when all around him refuse to see the truth especially when it is so simple to see.

"Proctor: Aye sir. She swears now that she never saw Satan; nor any spirit, vague or clear, that Satan may have sent to hurt her. And she declares her friends are lying now. Hale: Excellency, a moment. I think this goes to the heart of the matter. Danforth: It surely does." That conv

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