Hale's mission in Act IV is to ensure that innocent people
aren't put to death. By this point, he has seen enough spectral evidence to know that
the girls are faking it, and he has heard enough testimony in and out of the courtroom
to know that the people who are on trial are not deserving of the punishment they are
about to receive for the crime they did not commit.
This is
different because prior to his opportunity to get to know these people after their
duration in jail, he was just like everyone else, ready to see these people hung and
believe that they were witches just because someone else said so. Hale came to the town
as an expert in the field, and here he has had no success, and it changed
him.
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