The above statement is true for the first act and part of the second act but Reverend Hale breaks this typecast during the rest of the play. For example when the audience he is presented as a cocky ‘eager-eyed intellectual’. Hales ‘intellectual’ ability makes him cocky as he’s proud of his knowledge and feels the need to show it off. The word ‘intellectual connotes the idea of a person with a higher intelligence then that of the common man and someone with power of those less educated. Miller may have presented Hale in this way to personify the ego of the judges during the period of McCarthyism. But as Miller alters the typecast of Hale, Miller is showing pride is the only barrier between the judges and the falsely accused during this period. Through Hale miller is suggesting that a just and fair man like Hale will stand up against the damage he has caused through his action. This is shown by Hale standing there is ‘blood on his hands’. Hale did give the girls the stage they needed to cause the tragic events but did not mean for it to happen. Miller shows this as Hale tries to help the accused to clean his hands of the blood.