When Reverend Hale returns to Salem, he does so with a great deal less confidence and authority than when he came for the first time. In Act Four, he tells Elizabeth Proctor, I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died [...]. He understands, now, how he contributed to the hysteria, then. He knows that...
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