Static & dynamic characters of The Crucible Dynamic Character In The Crucible by Arthur Miller the character Reverend John Hale was a dynamic character. In the beginning of the Play Hale was a little cocky and thought that he was at a higher status than all the citizens in Salem. He looked at all of his fancy witchcraft books and used them for evidence more than the witness’s testimonies. He was stuck up and against anyone who doubted that the cause of the mysterious happenings in Salem was anything
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October 2014 Wind‚ Rain and Hale: The Man Who Took Salem by Storm Reverend John Hale‚ from Arthur Miller ’s The Crucible‚ is a Puritan minister from Beverly who is called to Salem to investigate the accusations of witchery. He plays a significant part within the play and you witness his transformation from [he is transformed from a; you is second person‚ which is informal] seemingly knowledgeable professor of the invisible world to a weeping pile of guilt and regret. Hale goes through [undergoes;
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In The Crucible by Arthur Miller shows both sides of dynamic and static characters. Though‚ there are a few minor character there are character in the story that are dynamic like John Proctor and Abagail as a static character. John Proctor is one character in The Crucible that is a dynamic which change a bit throughout the story; for he has changed from a quiet “farm boy” to a man with huge couragement. At the beginning of the play‚ Proctor kept things inside of his mind‚ and tries to get Abagail
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Arthur Millers The Crucible possesses many examples of interesting character development. A character who one initially finds to be worthy of mercy or pity can easily become the last person deserving of sympathy. This relationship is not only formed between the reader and the characters‚ but between the characters and the scenario of the story itself. The victim may become the accuser‚ or the scholar may become the humanitarian. This manner of characterization is best shown in the relationship between
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A dynamic character is a major character in a work of fiction that encounters conflict and is changed by it. In The Crucible‚ Reverend Hale is dynamic character. Reverend Hale has evolved into a better person‚ and has learned to try and do the right thing. To start off Reverend Hale strongly believes in the Puritan lifestyle and beliefs. When witchcraft was heard of in Salem he was brought to help get rid of the problem. When he was shown the problems he did not dig and find the root of where
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Reverend Hale is talking to John Proctor and Corey Giles about the imprisonment and charges against Rebecca Nurse and Giles’ wife. In the upheaval caused by the accusations Abigail‚ Betty‚ and Mary Warren gave‚ John Proctor’s word that they are lying means nothing. Hale cannot control the town anymore and is left to almost begging for more time to get confessions from those accused and to gain reason from the town. Abigail is trusted and believed because of her family tie to Reverend Parris. Since
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madness in The Crucible began when a few young girls from town went into the woods with a slave from town. When they got in the woods‚ they began to reform rituals while dancing around a bonfire. After a minister in town found out about the rituals‚ which closely resembled that of witch craft‚ the chaos began. Arthur Miller chose to use a brilliant array of major and minor characters and situations to depict the horrors and betrayals that exist within witch hunts. One of the main characters of this story
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about? A good example of this‚ in Arthur Miller’s four-act play The Crucible‚ happens when Reverend John Hale finds himself in a community entwined with lies‚ deceit‚ and betrayal. The play starts out in Salem‚ Massachusetts when a group of girls are discovered dancing in the woods at night. The girls’ actions lead the local town’s people of Salem in a suspicion of witch-craft when Betty Parris‚ the daughter of the local minister Reverend Parris‚ lay in bed one morning not being able to wake. Caught up
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The preaching of “hellfire and bloody damnation” (Miller 27) by Reverend Parris‚ the minister in the town of Salem‚ informs the reader of what is in the minds of the townspeople. Parris is regarded as a powerful figure by the people of Salem village and he plays a major role in the impetus of “The Crucible by Arthur Miller.” He stumbles upon a few girls dancing around objects in the forest. Shortly after‚ his daughter‚ along with another girl‚ fall very ill. This sparks the idea of witchcraft and
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John Proctor is a very dynamic character who has an internal conflict between being righteous and falling into temptation. This character is very unique because he changes his personality throughout the story. I like John Proctor because he is a symbol of the common man because most men fall into temptation at one point in their lives. We all try to do well but we are all sinners and we need to learn from our mistakes. I can relate to this character because I to have fallen into temptation but turn
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