English - Comparative (The Crucible) Flashcards
Power - Proctor
“You will not use me! I am no Sarah Good or Tituba, I am John Proctor!”
Power - Abigail
“Abigail turned up later as a prostitute in Boston”
She “vanished” from Salem
Power - townspeople
“three days now and cannot be heard”
Power - Proctor
“respected and even feared”
Power - theocracy/ Parris
“The Devil can never overcome a minister”
Power - Mary Warren
“can barely speak for embarrassment and fear”
Power - Proctor
“even tempered”
“menacingly”
“grasping her by the throat as if he would strangle her”
Power - Hale
“weighted with authority”
Power - Mary Warren
“raises her chin like the daughter of a prince”
“I am an official of the court”
Power - Abigail
“where she walks the crows will part like the sea for Israel”
Gender roles - Abigail
“John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart”
“I never knew the lying lessons taught to me by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!”
Guilt/innocence - Proctor
“I blacken all of them when this is nailed to the church the very day they hang for silence!”
Guilt - Proctor
“The magistrate sits in your heart judges you.”
Guilt/innocence - Proctor
“I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house.”
Guilt - Proctor
“a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time, but against his own vision of decent conduct.”
Guilt - Marshall Herrick
“somewhat shamefaced”
Guilt - Elizabeth Proctor
“It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery”
Guilt - Proctor
“You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor.”
Insular community
“anteroom of the General Court”
“The room is solid, even forbidding.”
Insular community - Elizabeth Proctor
“blackening my name in the village”
Truth - Proctor
“I lie and sign myself to lies”
Truth - Abigail
“It is a wonder they do believe her”
Truth - Abigail
“close knowledge of the town”
Truth
“predilection for minding other people’s business was time-honoured among the people of Salem”
Truth - Proctor & Danforth
“you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!”
Truth - Danforth
“seventy-two death warrants”
Truth
“notorious sign of witchcraft”
Truth - Hale
“we dare not quail to follow where the accusing finger points”
Truth - Hale
“until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven”
Truth - Parris
“it had naught to do with witchcraft”
Truth - Danforth
“a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between.”
Truth - Hale
“we must look to cause proportionate”
Fear - Parris
“howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house”
Fear - Hale
“the Devil is alive in Salem”
Fear - Hale & Tituba
“You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death”
Fear - Proctor
“why not [confess it], if they must hang for denying it”
Fear - Abigail
“I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!”
Fear - Danforth
“black allegiance”
Vengeance - Proctor
“common vengeance writes the law”
Vengeance - Elizabeth Proctor & Abigail
“she thinks to take my place”
Vengeance - Abigail
“whore’s vengeance”
Revenge
“Long-held hatreds of neighbours could now be openly expressed”
Revenge - Proctor & Hale
“Pontius Pilate! God will not let you wash your hands of this!”
Prejudice - Sarah Good
“She sleep in ditches, and so very old and poor”
Prejudice - Tituba
“singing her Barbados songs and temping me”
Judgement - Betty
“cannot bear to hear the Lord’s name”
Prejudice - Tituba
“swaying like a dumb beast over the fire”
Judgement - Rebecca Nurse
“it’s hard to think so pious a woman be secretly a Devil’s bitch”
Judgement - Parris
“I see no light of God in that man”
Hysteria
“calling out hysterically and with great relief”
Hysteria
“Hale weeps in frantic prayer”
Paranoia - Parris
“There is a faction that is sworn to drive me from my pulpit.”
Hysteria - Parris
“leap not to witchcraft”
Hysteria - Parris
“a frantic terror rising in him”
Hysteria - Hale
“Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small”
Hysteria - Hale
“we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendships”
Self-protection - Proctor
“How can I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”
Self-interest - Danforth
“by God’s grace”
“a Gospel Christian”
Reputation - Proctor
“rung the doom of my good name”
Self-interest - Parris
“you compromise my very character”
Reputation - Parris
“centre of some obscene practice”
Self-interest - Parris
“ought to say that I – I saw”
Justice - Danforth
“cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just.”
Self-interest - Danforth
“Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part”
Reputation - Parris
“so disastrous a charge laid upon me”
Self-protection - Abigail
“A wild thing may say wild things”
Reputation - Proctor
“It is pride, it is vanity.”
