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The reason we choose "The Devil went down to Georgia" by The Charlie Daniels band is because it tells a story of the literal devil in a battle with another fiddle player. Which Reverend Hale believes that he is engaged within "The Crucible" a literal battle with devil and witches. Also, the protagonist of the song tells the devil multiple times that he is the best at what he does which is something that Hale also believes in.

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"Proctor, let you open with me now, for I have a rumor that troubles me. It's said you hold no belief that there may even be witches in the world. Is that true, sir?" (II.277)

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"Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits—your incubi and succubi; your witches that go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day. Have no fear now—we shall find him out and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!" (I.355

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He is unsure and confused towards the middle and the end of the play. He doesn't know whether if what he has been told is true or if its wrong.

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He feels guilty for his actions because he feels that because of his action he has blood on his hands. Those that been hanged he feels that it was his fault

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"Excellency, I have signed seventy-two death warrants; I am a minister of the Lord, and I dare not take a life without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it." (III.239)

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The devil went down to Georgia lyrics [original]

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Reverend Hale overall is a pretty good guy. He wants the best for his community .By doing so he helps find witchcraft as so said in the play. As the play progress and he is called upon during the time when Betty was not awaking. Which then he investigates what has happened to Betty and what was the cause of it. He believes the girls when they start calling out the names of the individuals. He believes them because he was to fight off the Devil in the town. As the play goes on he slowly begins to doubt what he is believing in. Many people are being hanged for being accused of witchcraft. For then he becomes confused and overwhelmed on what to believe.  By the end of the play when so many have been hanged Hale feels guilty. He feels as if it was his fault that so many innocent people were being hanged. Hale overall wanted the best for his community but he failed to do so. All he wanted to do is get rid of the Devil. He wanted to help others find the light of God but instead he got himself confused and  all of the place.

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Reverend Hale was a man of books. He always referenced to his books and the Bible. He believed that these books had the ultimate truth about everything.

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Reverend Hale believes people very easily such as when the girls were yelling out random name he believed their statements without any proof. Which backfires on him because he then begins to witness so many innocent people dying.

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Reverend John Hale