reputation and integrity Flashcards
act 1 quote
parris 1 to abigail
“i have fought … three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now when some good respect is rising for me … you compremise my character”
act 1 quote
parris 2 putnam
“we cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house”
act 1 quote
abigail to girls
“Let either of you breath a word … abouth other things, and i will come to one of you in the black of some night and i will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you”
act 2 quote
john to elizabeth
“i’ll plead no more! i see now your spirit twist arounf the single error of my life, and i will never tear it free!”
act 2 quote
hale 1 to proctors
“i am a stranger here. and in my ingorance i find it hard to draw a clear oppinion of them that come accused in court”
act 2 quote
hale 2 proctors
“my duty is to add what i may to the godly wisdom in court”
act 3 quote
john to danforth on womens reputation
“Does it not strike upon you that many of these women have lived so long with such upright reputation”
act 3 quote
giles in court on putnam
“If Jacobs hangs for witchcraft he foreit his property … there is none but Putnam with the coin for such a great piece. Thi sman is killing his neighbours for their land!”
act 3 quote
john confessing his affair
“i have made a bell of my honour! i have run the doom of my good name - you will believe me Mr Danforth”
act 4 quote
danforth 1
“while i speak God’s law i will not crack its voice whimpering … i should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law”
act 4 quote
danforth 2 everyone
“i am not empowered to trade your life for a lie”
wow
act 4 quote
hale cry out for help
“i have blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!”
act 4 quote
hales quilt 2 elizabeth
“i would save your husband’s life, for if it is taken i count myself his murderer”
act 4 quote
hale’s duty
“let you not mistake you duty as i mistook my own … what i touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where i turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up - it is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice”
act 4 quote
proctors name
“because it is my name! Because i cannot have another in my life! Because i am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may i live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave my name!”
