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Johnny Depp is similar to Reverend Hale in ways because the two of them are highly flawed in their own ways.

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Our character seemed to be very confident at first, and then stressed and doubtful, which may have been his motive. He was confident at first because he was popular for witch hunting. He may have been stressed due to his own self-doubt in his methods. He realized towards the end that his own methods may not have been the best.

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Hale. "I beg you, stop now before another is condemned! I may shut my conscience to it no more-private vengeance is working through this testimony! From the beginning this man has struck me true. By my oath to heaven,I believe him now, and I pray you call back his wife before we.." (pg 223)

Hale. "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 immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it" (pg 215)

Hale. "No, no. Now let me instruct you. We cannot look to superstition in this." (pg 185)

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While seeming like a composed man, Hale unravels towards the end and is revealed to be very flawed.