Part one of term paper
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. Hale overgoes 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 ...

Part two of term paper
... does express that, "We can not look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are as definite as stone, and I must tell you all that I shall not precede unless you are prepared to believe me if I should find no bruise of hell upon her" (38), it is a mere empty promise, since before the ending of Act One he already mentally decides Salem is plagued with witchcraft, with or without concrete evidence to support his allegation. Hale uses such scant evid ...