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!