Crucible Act I Quotations
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Parris to Abigail | "Now look you, child, your punishment will come in its time. But if you trafficked with spirits in the forest I must know it now, for surely my enemies will, and they will ruin me with it." |
| Susanna to Parris | "Aye, sir, the doctor have been searchin' his books since he left you, sir. But he bid me tell you,l that you might look to unnatural things for the cause of it." |
| Parris to Abigail | "...if you know something that may help the doctor, for God's sake tell it to me. I saw Tituba waving her arms over the fire when I came on you. Why was she doing that? And I heard a screeching and gibberish coming from her mouth. She were swaying like a dumb beast over that fire!" |
| Abigail to Parris | "My name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name is soiled! Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar!" |
| Mrs. Putnam (Goody Ann) to Parris | "How high did she fly, how high?" |
| Thomas Putnam to Parris | "It is a providence the thing is out now! It is a providence." |
| Parris to Thomas Putnam | "Thomas, Thomas, I pray you, leap not to witchcraft. I know that you--you least of all, Thomas, would ever wish so disastrous a charge laid upon me. We cannot leap to witchcraft. They willl howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house." |
| Mercy to Abigail | "Have you tried beatin' her? I gave Ruth a good one and it waked her for a minute. Here, let me have her." |
| Mrs. Putnam to Parris | "Tituba knows how to speak to the dead, Mr. Parris." |
| Abigail to Parris | "Not I, sir--Tituba and Ruth." |
| Parris to Abigail | "Oh, Abigail, what proper payment for my charity! Now I am undone." |
| MaryWarren to Abigail | "What'll we do? the Village is out! I just come from the farm; the whole country's talkin' witchcraft! They'll be callin' us witches, Abby!" |
| Mary Warren to Abigail | "...Witchery's a hangin' error, a hagin' like they done in Boston two year ago! We must tell the truth, Abby! You'll only be whipped for dancin', and the other things!" |
| Betty to Abigail | "You drank blood! You didn't tell him that!" |
| Betty to Abigail | "...You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" |
| Abigail to Betty and Mary Warren | "...Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!" |
| John Proctor to Abigail | "The road past my house is a pilgrimage to Salem all morning. The town's mumbling witchcraft." |
| Abigail to John Proctor | "...I am waiting for you every night." |
| John Proctor to Abigail | "...you'll put it out of mind. I'll not be comin' for you more." |
| Abigail to John Proctor | "I know how you clutched my back behind you house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near! Or did I dream that? It's she put me out, you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your face when she put me out, and you lived me then and you do now!" |
| Giles Corey to Rebecca Nurse and the Putnams | "I've not said a word. No one here can testify I've said a word. Is she going to fly again? I hear she flies." |
| Rebecca Nurse to Parris and John Proctor | "Pray, John, be calm. I think you'd best send Rev. Hale back as soon as he come. This will set us all to arguin' again in the society, and we thought to have peace this year. I think we ought rely on the doctor now, and good prayer." |
| John Proctor to Thomas Putnam | "You cannot command Mr. Parris. We vote by name in this society, not by acreage." |
| Proctor to Parris | "Can you speak one minute without we land in Hell again? I am sick of Hell!" |
| Parris to John Proctor | "There is a party in this church. I am not blind: there is a faction and a party!" |
| Rebecca Nurse to John Proctor | "No, you cannot break charity with your minister. You are another kind, John. Clasp his hand, make your peace." |
| Giles Corey to Parris | "...I've changed my opinion of this man...Mr. Parris, I be your pardon. I never thought you had so much iron in you." |
| Thomas Putnam to John Proctor | "...What anarchy is this? That tract is in my bounds, it's in my bounds, Mr. Proctor." |
| John Proctor to Thomas Putnam | "Your grandfather had a habit of willing land that never belonged to him, if I may say it plain." |
| Thomas Putnam to John Proctor | "you load one oak of mine and you'll fight do drag it home!" |
| Rev. Hale to Parris | "We shall need hard study if it comes to tracking down the Old Boy." |
| Rev. Hale to Putnam, Proctor, Parris, Giles, Rebecca | "...Now let me instruct you. We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise: the marks of his presence are definite as stone, and I must tell you all that I shall not proceed unless you are prepared to believe me if I should find no bruise of hell upon her." |
| Mrs. Putnam (Goody Ann) to Rebecca, Rev. Hale | "...I sent my child--she should learn from Tituba who murdered her sisters." |
| Rev. Hale to Abigail | "Why are you concealing? Have you sold yourself to Lucifer? |
| Abigail to Rev. Hale | "I never sold myself! I'm a good girl! I'm a proper girl!" |
| Tituba to Rev. Hale | "Mister Reverend, I do believe sombody else be witching' these children." |
| Rev. Hale to Tituba | "...We will protect you. The Devil can never overcome a minister..." |
| Abigail to Rev. Hale and Parris, the Putnams, Tituba, Betty | "...I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book...I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil.!" |
| Betty to Abigail, Rev. Hale and Parris, the Putnams, Tituba | "I saw George Jacobs withe Devil! I saw Goody Howe with the Devil!" |
| Rev. Hale to ALL | "Glory to God! It is broken, they are free!" |
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