When Hale arrives in Salem at the beginning of The Crucible, he attempts to express a measured and scientific attitude toward witchcraft. He says that he refuses to assume that Betty's case is one of witchcraft until he has examined the evidence.
However, Hale almost immediately becomes satisfied that witchcraft is afoot in Salem based on flimsy and coerced testimony from Tituba. Readers see clearly that Hale was prepared to be convinced by...
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