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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. Hale overgoes a gradual change of character and belief as the play unfolds. As a dynamic cha ....

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.... decides Salem is plagued with witchcraft, with or without concrete evidence to support his allegation. Hale uses such scant evidence as Putnam’s death of her first seven children and Giles’ wife reading of strange books which keep him from reciting the Lord’s prayer. Ironically, he encounters, Tituba, after hearing that this Barbados slave had been practicing voodoo with the afflicted girls. After Hale puts immense pressure on Tituba to proclaim herself a witch Hale is able to manipulate Tituba to claim that she had used witchcraft on the girls. After declaring herself a witch she accuses the names of four honest and inn ....