The Crucible Flashcards
putnam money revenge
This man is killing his neighbours for his land!
mrs putnam and rebecca nurse
I’ll not have you judging me any more!
hale regret
There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!!”
abigail accusation
I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”
john proctor abigail intent
She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave!
I thought of her softly
I lusted
it is a whore’s vengeance…
proctor name
“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!”
tituba accusations
And I look… and there was Goody Good.
john proctor guilt
Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched, Abby.
john proctor description
lecher
john proctor forgiveness of himself
I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor.
abigail accusing tituba
“Tituba! Tituba made me do it!”
“She comes to me every night to go and drink blood!”
picking sides
a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between.
vengeance
vengeance is walking Salem
little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant’s vengeance! I’ll not give my wife to vengeance!
hale’s evidence
I have seen too many frightful proofs in court—the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!
lies and pretense in salem
I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!
abigail and john proctor relationship
You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!
wheels
There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!
the cyclical nature of conflict and revenge, one causes the other and it continues in a complex circling spiderweb
john proctor description by mary warren
“You are the Devil’s man!”
danforth justification for murder
I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just
books
I never had no wife that be so taken with books,
beating is rampant in the community
Have you tried beatin’ her? suggested by Mercy Lewis about Ruth
john proctor naked revelation
we are only what we always we, but naked now
giles corey being a boss
more weight
hale
“I denounce these proceedings!”
forest description
the virgin forest was the Devil’s last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand
thomas putnam description
he was a man with many grievances
he regarded himself as the intellectual superior of most of the people around him
vindictive nature
motif of resentment
rebecca nurse description
wise, sensible, and upright woman
abigails intention to drink blood
you drank a charm to kill Elizabeth Proctor!” betty parris
rebecca nurse child rearing technique
I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons…
the reason pa
We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption…
giles corey’s opinion of thomas
A fart on Thomas Putnam is what I say to that!
abigail bad word
it is a whore
did john cheat
did he turn from you?
no, sir
paris howl/enemy suspicion
they will howl me out of salem for such corruption in my house
for surely my enemies will and they’ll ruin me with it
when was the play made
1692
hale blood quote
There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!!
life is valuable
Life, woman, life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. HALE
burn fire
We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.
