Common Module Flashcards
persecuted wherever
“He believed he was being persecuted wherever he went, despite his best efforts to win people and God to his side.” - overture
cosmology
“Like Reverend Hale and the others on this stage, we conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology” - omniscient
court vs house
“as though I come into a court when I come into this house” - Proctor
intellectual superior
“he regarded himself as the intellectual superior of most of the people around him.” - narration about T Putnam
perhaps your cousin’s life
“my ministry’s at stake, my ministry and perhaps your cousin’s life.” - Parris to Abigail
judge
“You will not judge me more, Elizabeth” - Proctor
vs
“I cannot judge you, John” - Elizabeth
hang Tituba
TITUBA [terrified, falls to her knees]: No, no, don’t hang Tituba! I tell him I don’t desire to work for him, sir.
A&P: Aye, but
ABIGAIL: Aye, but we did.
PROCTOR: Aye, but we did not.
Hail: brute
HAIL: Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises.
Abigail: we danced
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.
Danforth: melts… concealment
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.
Danforth: statutes
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.
Proctor: holy?
PROCTOR: Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God’s fingers?
Proctor: God does… sees… knows…
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!
Abigail: wings
ABIGAIL: The wings! Her wings are spreading! Mary, please, don’t, don’t-!