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persecuted wherever

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“He believed he was being persecuted wherever he went, despite his best efforts to win people and God to his side.” - overture

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cosmology

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“Like Reverend Hale and the others on this stage, we conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology” - omniscient

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court vs house

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“as though I come into a court when I come into this house” - Proctor

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intellectual superior

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“he regarded himself as the intellectual superior of most of the people around him.” - narration about T Putnam

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perhaps your cousin’s life

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“my ministry’s at stake, my ministry and perhaps your cousin’s life.” - Parris to Abigail

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judge

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“You will not judge me more, Elizabeth” - Proctor
vs
“I cannot judge you, John” - Elizabeth

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hang Tituba

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TITUBA [terrified, falls to her knees]: No, no, don’t hang Tituba! I tell him I don’t desire to work for him, sir.

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A&P: Aye, but

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ABIGAIL: Aye, but we did.
PROCTOR: Aye, but we did not.

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Hail: brute

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HAIL: Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises.

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Abigail: we danced

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ABIGAIL: Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured… And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word… I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.

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Danforth: melts… concealment

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DANFORTH: Now, Mr. Proctor, before I decide whether I shall hear you or not, it is my duty to tell you this. We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.

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Danforth: statutes

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DANFORTH: I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise above the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes.

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Proctor: holy?

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PROCTOR: Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God’s fingers?

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Proctor: God does… sees… knows…

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PROCTOR: God does not need my name nailed upon the church! God sees my name; God knows how black my sins are! It is enough!

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Abigail: wings

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ABIGAIL: The wings! Her wings are spreading! Mary, please, don’t, don’t-!

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Mrs Putnam: wheels within… fires within…

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MRS PUTNAM: But I must! You think it God’s work you should never lose a child, nor grandchild either, and I bury all but one? There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires.

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Abigail: singin’… screamin’

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ABIGAIL: She heard you singin’ and suddenly she’s up and screamin’.

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Mrs Putnam: stroke of hell

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MRS PUTNAM [full of breath, shiny-eyed: It is a marvel. It is surely a stroke of hell upon you.