What is John's change/involvement in Act 2 of the Crucible? What are your opinions of Reverend Hale in Act 2?

Question

What is John's change/involvement in Act 2 of the Crucible? What are your opinions of Reverend Hale in Act 2?

Answer 1

At the beginning of the Act, John is still self-centered and defensive.  When Elizabeth asks him to confront Abigail and to go to the court to testify, he hesitates.  The Proctor's relationship is strained and John, while wanting Elizabeth's forgiveness, wants it now.  At the end of the act, when Elizabeth is taken, he realizes what Abigain Williams wants (to take her place) and is willing to go to court to save Elizabeth, putting her in front of him (finally).  He realizes his love for her and his desire to have her with him.

Hale, at the beginning, has full faith in the court of Salem (he tells John to let the courts send Rebecca Nurse home, thinking they will do the right thing).  He is still confident that he has everything under control until the very end of the Act when John throws suspicion on Abigail Williams.  Hale is interesting to me because he is good-hearted but too smart and trusting in the powers that be, maybe scoring high in intelligence but low in wisdom and common sense.

Answer 2

I wish people wouldn't use this forum to try to cheat on their homework.  

I also wish people wouldn't enable the cheaters by spoon-feeding the answer.

Answer 3

If you read the play, you know full-well what John's change/involvement is in Act 2, as well as anything Hale does. It's all there in black and white. John changes for the better in a very specialized way (meaning my way) of looking at it, Hale does not. That will not make a paper for you. You make the paper.

Good luck. Oh-- read the play.