【How-to】How is hale described when he comes to salem

John Hale, the intellectual, naïve witch-hunter, enters the play in Act I when Parris summons him to examine his daughter, Betty. In an extended commentary on Hale in Act I, Miller describes him as “a tight-skinned, eager-eyed intellectual. … As his belief in witchcraft falters, so does his faith in the law.