Crucible Scene 2 Critical Lines Flashcards
Corey: They’re telling’ lies about my wife, sir, I…
Danforth: Then you take it upon yourself to decide what this court shall believe and what it shall set aside?
Corey: Your Excellency, I only said she were readin’ books, sir, and they come and take her out of my house for…
What books, what…?
Hale: Excellency, he claims hard evidence for his wife’s defense. I think that in all justice you must…
Then let him submit his evidence in proper affidavit.
Hale: I think you must hear the girl sir, she…
Peace. What would you tell us, Mary Warren?
Parris: They’ve come to overthrow the court, sir! This man is…
Danforth: I pray you, Mr. Parris. Do you know, Mister Proctor…
Proctor: Why, I…I would free my wife, sir…
There lurks nowhere in your heart
Proctor: These are my friends. Their wives are also…
I judge you not, sir. Sit you down.
Proctor: I come not to hurt the court, I only…
Marshal, go into the Court and bid Judge Stoughton and Judge Sewall declare recess for one hour.
Proctor: I am no lawyer, so I’ll
The pure in heart need no lawyers.
Nurse: These are all covenanted Christians, sir…
Then I am sure they may have nothing to fear.
Nurse: I have brought trouble on these people, I have…
No, old may, you have not hurt these people if they are of good conscience.
Corey: I cannot give you no name, sir, I cannot…
You are a foolish old man. Mister Cheever, begin the record.
Danforth: …the name of him who reported Mister Thomas Putnam a common murderer.
Hale: Excellency…
Mister Hale
Hale: There is a prodigious fear of this court in the country…
Then there is a prodigious guilt in the country.
Proctor: She even testified that Satan, in the form of women now in jail, tried to win her soul away, and then when she refused…
We know all this
Hale: In God’s name, sir, stop here; send him home and let him come again with a lawyer…
Now look you, Mister Hale…
Hale: But this child claims the girls are not truthful, and if they are not…
That if precisely what I am about to consider, sir.
Parris: I should like to question…
Mister Parris, I bid you be silent!
Parris: Excellency, since I come to Salem this man is blackening my name. He…
In a moment, sir.
Parris: I can only say, sir, that I never found any of them–naked, and this man is…
You discovered them dancing in the woods?
Parris: I myself picked you up many times, and your skin were icy. Mister Danforth, you…
I saw that many times.
Abigail: Beware of it! There is…
What is it, child?
Parris: Now here, here…!
You charge–
Proctor: Mark her, now she’ll suck a scream to stab me with, but–
You will prove this, this will not pass.
