Crucible Flashcards
Danforth is hypocritical (2)
Claims to seek the truth but the only truth he wants to see is the one that benefits him the most
“Do you sport with me? You will sign your name or it is no confession”
“I am not empowered to trade your life for a lie”
Danforth is authoritative (1)
Terrifying figure who uses his power to intimidate others
“You will confess or you will hang! … Do you know who I am? I say you will hang if you do not open with me!”
Danforth is anxious (3)
Trying to maintain his reputation that is at stake due to his belief in the girls’ false confessions
“Instantly: no, no. I cannot accept this. He is rapidly calculating this”
“To Parris, urgently: Where is the Marshall?”
“Has told the village about the story yet?”
Proctor is loving (2)
“You are a — marvel, Elizabeth”
“The child?”
“He pats her hand”
Proctor has strong moral courage (2)
“I will cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again”
“No, no, Abby. That’s done with”
Proctor is self righteous
“I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches around your heart”
“Learn charity, woman”
Abigail is deceitful (3)
“Now she is all worry and apprehension and propriety”
“An endless capacity for dissembling”
“That were only soup”
Abigail is lustful (2)
“I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I come near”
“I know you, John. I know you”
Abigail is manipulative (2)
“She makes me drink blood!”
“Let any of you breathe a word… and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you”
Parris is insecure, conscious of his reputation and authority (4)
“My own household is discovered to be the very centre of some obscene practice”
“Abigail, do you understand that I have many enemies?”
“I have fought three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me”
“Put out all thought of unnatural causes here. There be none”
Parris is paranoid (2)
“I must know it now, for surely my enemies will and they will ruin me with it”
“There is a faction sworn to drive me from my pulpit!”
Parris is selfish (2)
“Now my ministry’s at stake; my ministry and perhaps your cousins life”
“Out of my sight! [She is gone.] Out of my -“
Rebecca is gentle (2)
“Rebecca simply stands over the child, who gradually quietness”
“Gentleness exudes from her”
Rebecca is dignified (1)
“Rebecca also enjoyed the high opinion that most people had for him”
Elizabeth is brave and caring (2)
“[she is fighting her weeping] To proctor: when the children wake, speak nothing of witchcraft — it will frighten them”
“John - I think I must go with them”
