Crucible Nueve--END

1.) Hale: "Why, it is all simple. I come to do the Devil's work. I come to counsel Christians they should belie themselves. His sarcasm collapses. There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!!" (Miller 131).

Hale is partly responsible for the countless lives taken in Salem. He was the one that investigated into people's lives to determine if they were a witch or not. If he found them to be a witch, he had a part to play in their demise by signing their arrest warrants and death warrants. This is a great burden on his name: the fact that innocent people are dead because of his professional opinion. Hale feels used by the court because of it as well. He was the professional in this area, and they abused his knowledge: "The very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up" (132). Hale did not know when he came to Salem that his specialty was going to be used to murder hundreds of innocents. To Hale, his name is now blemished with the blood of all these people. He was the one to identify them as a witch or not. Now, he is trying to reconcile himself by convincing the condemned innocents to lie and keep their life, rather than die for something they didn't do.

2.) Elizabeth: "He[Giles] were not hanged. He would not answer aye or nay to his indictment; for if he denied the charge they'd hang him surely, and auction out his property. So he stand mute, and died Christian under the law. And so his sons will have his farm. It is the law, for he could not be condemned a wizard without he answer to the indictment, aye or nay" (135).

There exists one loophole in the law's apparently infallible policy with witches. All of the condemned answered their accusation, either saying yes or no. Giles, the stubborn and relentless old man he was, did neither. The court did not get an answer from him, so he could not be a warlock and they could not hang him for not confessing. Giles did not want to tarnish his name and lose his property while he had sons it was going to pass on to. Not only that, but he wanted to pass his name on to his sons unmarked, so that they could live without their father condemned a witch. Giles died while the court was trying to get an answer out of him: "Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. With a tender smile for the old man: They say he give them but two words. "More Weight," he says. And died" (135). Giles is so adamant that his name passing lawfully and religiously on to his sons. He endured such an agonizing death, only embracing it in defiance.