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 One exhibits the audience a zealous priest, Reverend John Hale, looking for evidence of witchcraft, real or make beli ....