In Charles Laughton’s 1955 film The Night of the Hunter‚ I chose to write about Reverend Harry Powell. This movie is about a crooked reverend/serial killer who tries to charm a gullible widow and steal ten thousand dollars hidden by her dead husband. He is motivated by his hatred for women and his belief that he is doing “God’s work”. From the very beginning‚ we see Reverend Harry Powell fleeing away from his most recent murder scene. He has murdered another widow and is now traveling up the Ohio
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Throughout the Crucible there is evidence that the character Reverend John Hale undergoes evaluation within his own beliefs and those that others tell him. In Acts I and II he strongly believes everything that the court‚ the girls and Reverend Parris tells him. But as the play continues his belief in what those in the village says starts to deteriorate‚ and his own beliefs start to arise. Throughout Acts I and II the reader sees Reverend John Hale’s firm belief that there are witches in Salem. When
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The character Betty Parris plays an important role in the story of the Crucible. As one of the girls who danced in the forest she is part of the play’s central conflict. She is the cause of the townspeople blaming witchcraft in the first place and she is also part of the reason that most of the characters are killed by the end of the fourth act. Through her actions over the course of the play‚ Betty is shown to be fearful‚ easily-manipulated‚ and an attention-seeker. In the Crucible‚ one of Betty’s
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This play takes place in Salem during 1692. Reverend John Hale arrives from another city n MA to solve the problem about witches in Salem. Reverend John Hale is very intellectual and a naive witch-hunter. Hale is to blame for the killings in Salem because he made many false accusations‚ had power but did not want to ruin his reputation‚ and he did not speak up. Hale made many accusations and that lead to people dying just for no reason. Its true Hale did make accusations but so did everyone else
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KEY Who are Reverend Parris‚ Betty‚ and Abigail? What is their relationship? Rev. Parris is the minister of Salem‚ Betty is his daughter‚ and Abigail is his niece. Who is Tituba? What is her relationship to the family? Tituba is the Parris’s slave from Barbados. What is wrong with Betty? Betty is unconscious after being caught by her father dancing in the woods with other girls from Salem. Why does Parris suggest calling in Reverend Hale? Rev. Parris thinks the Devil
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Silas Hanegraaf The Parris Household Bewitched! Last night there had been a rumor of all the girls in Salem summoning the devil by witchcraft. Betty Parris is one of these girls‚ and it has been said she is running rampant around Salem being demon possessed. Nobody knows for sure if she has been bewitched‚ nor if she isn’t bewitched. These rumors are spreading to be real since Betty Parris is lying without movement in her bed. It was on the night in Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ 1692 where in the
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name hundreds of people were thrown in jail or hung? Well that is what Reverend John Hale has to ask himself as he has the heaviest burden to carry. In Arthur Miller’s‚The Crucible‚ John Hale is man so sure of himself at first becomes a very broken man while dealing with the accusations in Salem. When John Hale first arrives in Salem he is very over confident and conceited about his knowledge in witchcraft. Reverend Hale is described as a "tight-skinned‚ eager-eyed intellectual."(1146) This
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of characters like John and Elizabeth Proctor‚ Abigail Williams‚ Reverend Parris and many others in the play. The first act of the play is an exposition act which reveals all the primary characters and conflicts in the play. The play begins with Reverend Parris – a minister of the church – praying for his daughter Betty “He mumbles‚ then seems about to weep; then he weeps‚ then prays again”. Through the continuous weeping of Parris‚ Miller indicates to the readers that he is a weak character. In
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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 in the whole talk and suspicion of witch-craft‚ Reverend Parris sends for
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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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