 Now let's talk about the character of Reverend Paris now Reverend Paris when we first meet him We learn that he is a widower in other words his wife has died his daughter is called Betty She's the one who is seemingly in what looks like a witch-induced coma and of course Abigail is his niece and Abigail lost her parents So he reluctantly takes her in Now we learned that Reverend Paris is actually not native to Salem He actually arrived there after serving and working as a trader and whilst he was a trader That's when he bought Tituba as a slave to work for him now Reverend Paris is someone who is seen as somewhat of a divisive figure He's someone who really clashes directly with John Proctor because John Proctor sees him as a very opportunistic person He uses the cover of religion in order to further his own personal interests Hence why when he became Reverend the third child of John Proctor has not been baptized by him because John Proctor Does not trust him now Reverend Hale essentially appears to be an outsider who much like a trader a merchant who basically does things for profit He appears to use his own position as a way to further his own interests as opposed to taking a genuine interest in Ensuring that Salem is free from witchcraft and the influences of the devil now He's actually the person who starts the idea of witches And of course he uses his daughter in order to raise this alarm that there's some form of witchery a foot There's some form of witchcraft is in Salem and it's affecting people and of course it's on his calling that key characters like the governor and Reverend Hale also come in in order to rid Salem of witches Now of course when it comes to key quotations for his character because you do need to be able to memorize Quotations and write about him in your essay or coursework So for example for your exams as well the first quotation to relate to Reverend Paris is when it states in history He cut a villainous path now in this quotation This is powerful because it really encapsulates the character of Reverend Paris He's somebody who is one that we cannot quite trust But it's very ironic that he ultimately ends up being the spiritual voice of reason Now in terms of word-level analysis to do here you want to first focus on alliteration of hate So history and he and of course the adjective hair villainous Okay, so ready from the outset we don't really trust Reverend Hill much like the way John Proctor doesn't really trust his intentions The second quotation to remember with respect to his character is the stage directions which state his eyes going wide and then he States no no there be no unnatural cause here So of course here he's trying to deflect people perhaps may be assuming that there's You know witchcraft being practiced in his house because of course Betty is in some kind of coma. She's incapacitated However, he appears to now be really careful because he's so concerned about protecting his own Reputation because he does also have some enemies now in terms of one level analysis to do for this quotation Firstly if we look at the stage directions the adjective wide showing how Reverend Paris he still is very much even if he uses the idea of Trying to remove the devil and trying to remove witches from amongst people in Salem It's still very much based on his own personal self-interest So of course the adjective wide showing his fear that in case people see him in a negative light He's now really concerned about his image Now the other word level analysis to do to do hair is actually a structural point You want to look at the repetition of no and in fact He says no no twice here and of course a third time here and here again This is illustrating how Reverend Paris is so intrigues and so for him It's very much about maintaining an appearance and it's also all about how he's using his position in order to further his interests Okay, and of course this makes us now really understand an empathize of why John Proctor saw him as a hypocrite The other quotation to remember for his character is when he states my daughter and niece I discovered dancing like heathens in the forest and this is a question now here Of course, this is tied into how he knows the truth He knows that Abigail was involved in some kind of negative ideas when they were dancing around However, he then feigns ignorance, okay? Now we learn of course He's the one that catches them in the act and you want to focus in terms of word level analysis on a Literation of D so discovered in dancing and also similarly like he then and of course do remember in the Puritan community Frivolous things like dancing music were forbidden. They were expressly forbidden But of course his daughter Betty as well as Abigail are breaking these rules The other quotations to remember for Reverend Paris's character is when he alludes to his enemies Okay, he doesn't want to give his enemies ammunition in order to criticize him because he says they will how me out of Salem Now, of course here you want to focus on the onomatopoeia how again Here we can see that he's not actually that concerned with curing Betty of you know Sources of witchcraft is more concerned with making sure that his position is protected Of course He also is more concerned with making sure that his enemies don't use his daughter's possession as an excuse to kick Him back out of Salem because remember he's not a native to this town The other quotations to remember with his character is when he states they've come to overthrow the courts and here He's been really critical particularly of people like John Proctor who are essentially criticizing the courts and criticizing The really really heavy-handed tactics that are being used on people that John Proctor and other characters seem as innocent however in this case Reverend Paris is defending the actions of the court the very hard Heavy-handed actions in prosecuting all of these poor victims and in this case the word of analysis You want to do in this quotation is the verb overthrow this idea that he's seeing himself as almost protecting the Judges who are in passing out all of these Ideas as to all of these women being guilty of witchcraft and of course also John Proctor being guilty So it's interesting here that Reverend Paris is actually very supportive up until this point of all the witchcraft proceedings However by act 4 he has done a complete U-turn because now he Realizes his position is now very precarious the witchcraft proceedings have gone too far and now he's focusing on self Preservation and of course he also realizes it's gone too far in covering up for Abigail Abigail has then stolen from him and run off with his money And now he realizes the fault and the actions in his own actions and especially his fault in Defending the witchcraft proceedings now the quotation to remember here Which shows his complete 360 turn is I would postpone these hangings for a while This is when he's talking to governor Danforth And of course here he's trying to ask if it's possible to just not have all these people killed including John Proctor So this is John Proctor who is firstly his enemy But now he realizes that it's within his interest for John Proctor to stay alive now here The word level analysis you want to focus on is firstly the pronoun I again This is showing that even if Reverend Paris has now changed his mind and he sees The proceedings going too far. He's still he's still not interested in the fact that it's because people have died innocent lives have been taken It's more now his life is in danger. He wants to stop this The other word level analysis you want to do here is the verb postpone and here He's lightly but kind of firmly asking if the governor can stop the hangings in order for there to be a bit more Peace and some justice restored. Okay, so that's really it when it comes to key quotations. Remember for Reverend Paris