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  • Hale In Defense Of Proctor
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    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. Haleovergoes a gradual change of character and belief as the play unfolds. As a dynamic character? Though a gradual change it is, the change drastically changes his views and ideas of what is God's will and where his priorities lie. The end of Act One exhibits the audience a zealous priest, Reverend John Hale, looking for eviden...
  • Third Act John Hales Attitude
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    One of the greatest aspects of Arthur Millers "The Crucible" was his ability to make a complete transformation of the characters from beginning to end. From the beginning of the play we were told of Reverend John Hales experience in witchcraft and his strong confidence in oneself. As the play goes on, we the readers witness a complete alteration of character. The power in which he possesses begins to blind his judgement, goodness, and sensibility, and thereby causes the death of many innocent pe...
  • Rev Hale
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    An Individual's Achievement of Self-Knowledge An important theme is an individual's achievement of self-knowledge as a result of undergoing an ordeal. As Rev. Hale sits through the proceedings of the court in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, his views change drastically. When Rev. Hale first arrives in Salem, he is very objective about the whole situation of witchery. He questions Tituba and Abigail about all the events that occurred in the forest such as the girls' dancing and the frog i...
  • Captain Nathan Hale From The American Army
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    Nathan Hale - Introduction Nathan Hale was no doubt a hero of the American revolution. He was a serious young individual and was well educated. There are many accounts of his appearance and personality, and throughout all my research I have not seen anything negative. It was (is) known that he was kind, gentle, religious, athletic, and smart. He risked all this, to help his country, America. Nathan Hale Hale, born in Coventry, Connecticut was born on June 6, 1755. Hale was the middle child kid i...
  • Hale's Many Statements In The Play
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    "I came to do the Devil's work" is the ironic and sad truth that Reverend John Hale realizes in Arthur Miller's dramatic play, The Crucible. One can see that Hale's personality changes enormously throughout the play. These changes are illustrated by Hale's many statements in the play. The statements in the beginning of the play establish Hale's firm beliefs and toward the end of the play his disgust with the outcome of the trials. Hale is a very intriguing person with many character traits. "The...
  • The Crucible Reverend John Hale Character
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    The Crucible: Reverend John Hale - A Dynamic Character In literature, there are different types of characters. There are the types of characters that change during the story and some that don't, dynamic and static. There is also how the character is described in the story. They might be flat, meaning the character is stereotyped, or he might be rounded, being the author described him in such a way as to just barely know him enough to tell the story. In the play The Crucible by Author Miller, Rev...
  • Court Hale
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    The Crucible: The Evil of Fear In The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, the strict Puritan community of Salem is bombarded with the hysteria of witchcraft. It starts when five young girls of Salem are caught dancing in the forest. Instead as mere children playing, this behavior is viewed upon by the Puritans as the work of the devil. As the hysteria builds momentum, more and more accusations radiate. Reverend Hale, a well known expert on witches, is brought into Salem to " cleanse' the ...
  • Scene And The One Convincing Actor
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    The Crucible I saw the play The Crucible and there were examples of styles of directing and acting that were very interesting. The production was put on by the University of Arizona's theatre department and as such the directing and acting had its good points and its bad ones. There was one scene in particular that appeared to be very well directed. Act two takes place in the common room of the Proctors house about a week after the initial scene in the Reverends home. This scene was especially w...
  • Victor Frankenstein And Reverend Hale
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    Reverend Hale unquestionably resembles that of the fictional character Dr. Victor Frankenstein due to both of the character's quests for something too idealistic and complex to possibly accomplish. Though the tone, style, and plot are of two completely different concepts, further investigation reveals that two of the main characters in each book are extremely similar. Through this common link, each man's journey is going to begin as a romantic modification in the society that surrounds them and ...
  • Hale And His Best Friend Deakins
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    1. The Plot In Broken Arrow, the main story turns around two stolen atomic bombs. Hale and his best friend Deakins are two pilots sent out to test a B-3 bomber plane on a nice afternoon. The plane had onboard two nuclear bombs. All of a sudden, the two friends get into an argument and then they start physically fighting. Deakins finishes by ejecting Hale out of plane who lands safely with his parachute to the ground. Now Deakins had a plan to set the atomic bombs off. All this happens while the ...
  • Sheila Hale
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    Genius enchained by the body The Man Who Lost His Language by Sheila Hale Allen Lane 14.99, pp 302 If you ever need convincing that our brains are organs of baffling intricacy, consider what happens when they go awry. A simple cranial blood blockage can trigger a cascade of bizarre effects, as is revealed by the case of art historian Sir John Hale, who suffered a stroke aged 69, an arterial insult that left him unable to walk, look after himself or articulate anything but the sounds 'da woahs, d...
  • Reverend Hale The Witch
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    Hale arrives in Salem he acts as a confident, naive expert on witches, and unknowingly encourages the girls to lie by putting words into their mouths. Near the end when the truth has been exposed, Hale with so much blood on his head pleas: I come to do the Devil 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! (Miller, 131). For Reverend Hale the witch hunt in Salem is the scene of a moral journey as he eventually m...
  • Hale's Interaction And Relationships With Other Characters
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    Beyond the Superficial Throughout the tumultuous Red Scare era, people struggled with the issue of daily conduct. Revealing one's creed or beliefs could have severe ramifications. People brooded over how to express themselves in an appropriate manner. By directly stating your feelings, provided that they were considered the wrong feelings, a person risked persecution as a Communist. But the Catch 22 of the matter is that everyone needs to share ideas and thoughts. So the question was, how did on...
  • Opening Scene Of The Novel Brighton Rock
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    Brighton Rock. I am going to look at the opening scene of the novel Brighton Rock and compare and contrast this with the opening scene of the film. I am mostly interested in the way Ida and Pinkie are presented and the run up to the murder. I want to see how similar or contrasting events are leading up to this and how the novel and film build tension. The novel 'Brighton Rock' was written by Graham Greene between the wars. The opening lines immediately introduced a dark feeling to the novel. Whe...
  • Hale's Courtship Of Jerusha
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    As a small child in parochial school, Thursdays were collection days for the Missionaries. It wasn't made very clear to us exactly what Missionaries were, but we were informed that our nickels helped them to convert and save "pagan babies" far away. My nickels were dutifully turned over every Thursday, knowing that I was saving some poor baby an eternity of Purgatory, simply because she or he hadn't been baptized. As my early parochial school upbringing did not endorse free-thinking, it never da...
  • Reverend Hale Believes In Witchcraft
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    David S tier 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 ...
  • False Proceedings For Hale
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    How did witchcraft really come about in the little town of Salem? To me, I think that witchcraft was from a brain of a tight-skinned, eager-eyed intellectual man with the name, Reverend John Hale. Hale is a character, which fascinates me in many ways. In The Crucible, I could see many conflicts arising among the characters but that Hale had faced important decisions affecting his life as well as alongside characters Abigail, Proctor, and Elizabeth. The main reason why I chose and am auditioning ...

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