Act 3 Flashcards
DANFORTH: Who is this man?
Giles Corey, sir, and a more contentious…
Mary Warren enters
Mary Warren! What, what are you about here?
DANFORTH: Who is this?
PROCTOR: John Proctor, sir. Elizabeth Procter is my wife
Beware this man, your excellency. This man is mischief.
DANFORTH: No, no, I have accepted no deposition. Tell me, mister proctor, have you given out this story in the village?
PROCTOR: we have not.
They’ve come to overthrow the court, sir! This man is…
PROCTOR: Excellency, does it not strike upon you that so many of these women have lived so long with such upright reputation and-
Cain were an upright man, Mr Proctor, until he did kill Abel.
DANFORTH: Then your purpose is somewhat larger?
He’s come to overthrow the court, Your Honor!
NURSE: Ninety-one, Your Excellency.
These people must be summoned for questioning.
NURSE: Mister Danforth, I have them all my word no harm would come to them for signing this.
This is a clear attack upon the court!
HALE: is every defense an attack upon the court? Can no one…
All innocent and Christian people are happy for the courts in Salem! These people are gloomy for it.
PROCTOR: Your Honor…he has the story in confidence, sir, and he…
The devil lives on such confidences! Without confidences there could be no conspiracy, Your Honor!
HALE: I do not sir.
DANFORTH: Her deposition, Mr. Proctor
I should like to question-
PROCTOR: it will keep if it is kept, but Mary Warren swears she never saw no poppets in my house.
Why could there not have been poppets hid where no one ever saw them?
PROCTOR: Abigail led the girls to the woods, your honor, and they have danced there naked.
Your honor, this…
PROCTOR: Mr parris discovered them there in the dead of night! There’s the child she is.
DANFORTH: Mister Parris, this…
I can only say, sir, that I never found any of them – naked, and this man is…
DANFORTH: do you deny it, Mr. Paris?
I do not, sir, but I never saw any of them naked
DANFORTH: but they have danced?
Aye, sir
MARY: pretense, sir
But you did turn cold, did you not? I myself picked you up many times, and your skin what I see, Mr. Danforth, you-
HATHORNE: then pretend to faint now.
MARY: Now
Why not? Now there are no spirits attacking you, for none in this room is accused of witchcraft. So let yourself turn cold now, let you pretend you are attacked now, let you faint. Faint!
MARY: faint?
Aye faint! Proved to us how you pretended in the court so many times
MARY: I never saw no spirits
Then see the spirits now, and proved to us that you can faint by your own will
MARY: I cannot do it
Then you will confess, will you not, that attacking spirits made you faint
MARY: no sir, I-
Your excellency, this is a trick to blind the court
MARY: I promise you, Mr. Danforth I only thought I saw them, but I did not
Surely your excellency is not taken by the simple lie
MARY: you are the devil‘s man
Praise God
DANFORTH: sign what?
The Devil‘s book? You come with a book.
PROCTOR: I say… god is dead
Hear it, hear it
