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The Crucible Flashcards

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Hale
‘We can not…..’

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“We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise”

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Hale
‘Theology…’

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“Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small”

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Hale (juxtaposition S+E)
‘You must give…’

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You must give us all their
names!’
‘What I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great
faith, blood flowed up’

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Danforth
‘But you must understand…’

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But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road in between. This is a sharp time now, a precise time - we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world. Now, by God’s grace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it.

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Mary Warren (AuthIntru)
‘She is…’

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She is seventeen, a subservient, naïve, lonely girl.

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Mary Warren (SD)
‘Hardly…’

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[hardly audible]
[weaker]
[almost inaudibly] [faintly]
& [very faintly]

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Mary Warren
‘You’re the devil’s….’
‘I said I…’

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“You’re the Devil’s man… Abby, I’ll never hurt you more!”
-“I said I never see no sign you ever sent your spirit out to hurt no one”

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Abigail
‘Let either…’

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Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about other things and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning and I will shudder you

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F/H
Arthur Miller (AuthIntru)
‘The witch hunt…’

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The witch hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom

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Proctor
‘We are what we…’

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‘We are only what we always were, but naked now. [he walks as though toward a great horror, facing the open sky.] Aye, naked! And the wind, God’s icy wind, will blow! And she is over and over again sobbing, ‘I cannot, I cannot, I cannot’

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Proctor
‘A fire…’

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A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face…we will burn together!…you are pulling Heaven down and raising up a whore!

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Parris
“But if you..”

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But if you trafficked me with spirits in the forest, I must know it now, for surely my enemies will and they will ruin me with it”

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RTN
Parris
‘They will howl…’

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“They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption on my house”
‘For now my ministry’s at stake my ministry and perhaps your cousins life’

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Proctor
‘It is a weighty name…’

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“It is a weighty name it will strike the village that Proctor confess”
‘a kind of fraud’

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Proctor
‘I cannot…’

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I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint…I am no good man

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Proctor
‘Because it is my…’

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Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! 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 me my name!

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Danforth
‘Do you know who…’

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Do you know who I am, Mr Nurse?…And do you know that near to four hundred are in the jails from Marblehead to Lynn, and upon my signature?…And seventy-two condemned to hang by that signature?

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Hale
‘You have confessed…’

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You have confessed yourself to witchcraft, and that speaks a wish to come to Heaven’s side

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Abigail
‘Where she…’

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Where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel

20
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Abigail (spoken by Proctor)
‘I’ll tell…’

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I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem - vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

21
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Danforth
‘I cannot..’

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I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just….While I speak God’s law, I will not crack its voice with whimpering

22
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Elizabeth (in relation to Danforth’s trial)
‘With great…’
‘Must…

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(With great fear), and her dialogue of, ‘I fear nothing.’,
‘Must go with them’.

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Elizabeth ‘Suspicion..
Danforth “No wife…’

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‘I’ in the expressions, ‘Suspicion kissed you when I did.’and ‘It was a cold house I kept’
‘No wifely tenderness’

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Proctor
‘I speak my own…’

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‘I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it

25
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Proctor
NGM

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‘no good man’

26
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Light structural feature quote
‘Sun..’

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‘sun is pouring in upon her face

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Setting feature (places)

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The fact that act 3 is in a communal place- the hysteria has progressed out of individual families and homes- not just fear, but hysteria

28
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Paris staging act 1

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‘He turns on her’, ‘with anger’, and ‘pressed’

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Abigail
General hysteria quote

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” I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”

30
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Paris
“ we dare not..’

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‘We dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points’

31
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Danforth
Religion

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‘While I speak God’s law I will not crack its voice’

32
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Putnams
‘There is a murdering’

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There is a murdering witch among us, bound to keep herself in the dark. Let your enemies make of it what they will, you cannot blink it more.”

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Puthnam
‘There are hurtful…’

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There are hurtful, vengeful spirits layin’ hands on these children

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Putnam
‘She must…’

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This woman must be hanged! She must be taken and hanged!

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Hale
‘I have gone..’

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‘I have gone this three months like our Lord into the wilderness

36
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Setting SD Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, Act 4

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‘A small upper bedroom’ (1)
‘The common room of the Proctor house’ (2)
‘The vestry room of Salem meeting house’ (3)
‘A cell in Salem that fall. The place is in darkness’ (4)

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