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John Hale is the minister of Beverly, which has been summoned to Salem to discover and extinguish supposed witchcraft in the town of Salem, Mass. in the colonial period. Hale overgoes a gradual change of character and belief as the play unfolds. As a dynamic character? Though a gradual change it is, the change drastically changes his views and ideas of what is God’s will and where his priorities lie. The end of Act …

…man, a man who sees his previous sins for what they truly are in Act Four. A man who needs to assist those he has condemned to death. A man with a moral obligation to protect those lives that he has put into jeopardy with his previous zealous behavior. ...Yes. Yes, there is a immense positive change in Hale from the beginning of the play to the end. Yes, Rev. Hale is a dynamic character.