Hysteria Flashcards
(13 cards)
What is the quote from Act 1 that includes wheels and fires?
There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!
Characters: Mrs. Putnam (Speaker), Parris, Proctor; Techniques: Repetition, conduplicatio, symbolism
What does Proctor say about vengeance in Act 2?
I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem.
Characters: Proctor (Speaker), Herrick, Elizabeth, Hale; Techniques: Antanaclasis, truncated sentence
What does Proctor declare about the state of Salem in Act 2?
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom
Characters: Proctor (Speaker), Herrick, Elizabeth, Hale; Techniques: Repetition, contrast, metaphorical imagery
What is Proctor’s declaration in Act 3 regarding fire and Lucifer?
A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth!…
act 3
Characters: Proctor (Speaker), Parris, Mary Warren; Techniques: Repetition, biblical allusion, metaphor, paradox
Hale: Lord
I am a minister of the Lord, and I dare not take a life without there be a proof
Act 3
Good goodnes
He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
Act 4
Proctor’s self-judgment
“I am not that man. My honesty is broke, Elizabeth; I am no good man.”
Proctor 3
Leave name
I have given you my soul; leave me my name!
Proctor 4
Speak sins
I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another…I have no tongue for it.
Proctor 4
Name proctor
Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life.
Proctor 2
Error
“ the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!”
Proctor 2
God
“A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now.”
3 Proctor
Not Use me
You will not use me! I am no Sarah Good or Tituba, I am John Proctor!”
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