How do Hale’s emotions and feelings develop from act 1 to the end?
How do Hale’s emotions and feelings develop from act 1 to the end?
Throughout the course of the play, the feelings and the firm beliefs about the suspicion of witchcraft in Salem which we see with the Reverend Hale in Act 1 begin to disintegrate as the play develops through to Act 2 where he meets with the Proctors and then further to the storming out of his own court at the end of Act 3. Through stage directions we can acquire a further insight into Hale’s feelings and emotions at key moments as they tell us certain gestures which he makes which we can then connote to feelings such as confusion or realization such as when Proctor opens his eyes in their encounter in Act 2 about the cause of the confessions of the Witches. When we first meet the Reverend Hale we can tell that he is a man who takes his work of studying witchcraft extensively very seriously. In his entrance in Act 1 he tells us about the marks of the Devil and how the, “Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are as definite as stone [...] I shall not proceed unless you are prepared to believe me if I should find no bruise of hell upon her.” From this initial speech about the marks of the Devil we can get the interpretation that the Reverend Hale treats his work seriously, and through telling them to, “believe,” him, we see that Hale is a man who wants do conduct honest and, “precise,” work. We also get the impression that he finds his work not a chore but more as an art as he describes his book to have, “all familiar spirits, your incubi and succubi; your witches [...] your wizards of the night and of the day.” By using technical terms such as the naming of the various examples of the invisible world, “incubi and succubi,” suggests to both the reader and the characters in the play that he is the man for the task and the man who will get to the source of the witchcraft in Salem. It also tells the characters that he has a very good understanding about the different forms of the invisible
Throughout the course of the play, the feelings and the firm beliefs about the suspicion of witchcraft in Salem which we see with the Reverend Hale in Act 1 begin to disintegrate as the play develops through to Act 2 where he meets with the Proctors and then further to the storming out of his own court at the end of Act 3. Through stage directions we can acquire a further insight into Hale’s feelings and emotions at key moments as they tell us certain gestures which he makes which we can then connote to feelings such as confusion or realization such as when Proctor opens his eyes in their encounter in Act 2 about the cause of the confessions of the Witches. When we first meet the Reverend Hale we can tell that he is a man who takes his work of studying witchcraft extensively very seriously. In his entrance in Act 1 he tells us about the marks of the Devil and how the, “Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are as definite as stone [...] I shall not proceed unless you are prepared to believe me if I should find no bruise of hell upon her.” From this initial speech about the marks of the Devil we can get the interpretation that the Reverend Hale treats his work seriously, and through telling them to, “believe,” him, we see that Hale is a man who wants do conduct honest and, “precise,” work. We also get the impression that he finds his work not a chore but more as an art as he describes his book to have, “all familiar spirits, your incubi and succubi; your witches [...] your wizards of the night and of the day.” By using technical terms such as the naming of the various examples of the invisible world, “incubi and succubi,” suggests to both the reader and the characters in the play that he is the man for the task and the man who will get to the source of the witchcraft in Salem. It also tells the characters that he has a very good understanding about the different forms of the invisible