The Crucible Flashcards

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putnam money revenge

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This man is killing his neighbours for his land!

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mrs putnam and rebecca nurse

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I’ll not have you judging me any more!

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hale regret

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There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!!”

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abigail accusation

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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!”

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john proctor abigail intent

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She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave!

I thought of her softly

I lusted

it is a whore’s vengeance…

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proctor name

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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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tituba accusations

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And I look… and there was Goody Good.

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john proctor guilt

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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.

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john proctor description

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lecher

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10
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john proctor forgiveness of himself

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I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor.

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abigail accusing tituba

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“Tituba! Tituba made me do it!”

“She comes to me every night to go and drink blood!”

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picking sides

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a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between.

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vengeance

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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!

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hale’s evidence

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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!

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lies and pretense in salem

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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!

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abigail and john proctor relationship

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You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!

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wheels

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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

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john proctor description by mary warren

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“You are the Devil’s man!”

19
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danforth justification for murder

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I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just

20
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books

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I never had no wife that be so taken with books,

21
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beating is rampant in the community

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Have you tried beatin’ her? suggested by Mercy Lewis about Ruth

22
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john proctor naked revelation

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we are only what we always we, but naked now

23
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giles corey being a boss

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more weight

24
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hale

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“I denounce these proceedings!”

25
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forest description

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the virgin forest was the Devil’s last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand

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thomas putnam description

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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

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rebecca nurse description

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wise, sensible, and upright woman

28
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abigails intention to drink blood

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you drank a charm to kill Elizabeth Proctor!” betty parris

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rebecca nurse child rearing technique

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I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons…

30
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the reason pa

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We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption…

31
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giles corey’s opinion of thomas

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A fart on Thomas Putnam is what I say to that!

32
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abigail bad word

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it is a whore

33
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did john cheat

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did he turn from you?

no, sir

34
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paris howl/enemy suspicion

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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

35
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when was the play made

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1692

36
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hale blood quote

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There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!!

37
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life is valuable

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Life, woman, life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. HALE

38
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burn fire

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We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.