The Crucible Notes
The Crucible - Quotations
Characters:
Abigail Williams
• Stage directions: an endless capacity for dissembling
• “…and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.”
• “I’d almost forgot how strong you are, John Proctor!”
• Stage directions: Winningly she comes a little closer, with a confidential, wicked air.
• “I want to open myself! I want the light of God… I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”
• Stage directions: in an open threat. “Let you beware, Mr Danforth.”
• Stage directions: They all watch, as Abigail, out of her infinite charity, reaches out and draws the sobbing Mary to her, and then looks up to Danforth.
John Proctor
• “Ah, you’re wicked yet, aren’t y’!”
• “It’s well seasoned.”
• “It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. Aye, naked! And the wind, God’s icy wind, will blow!”
• “But it is a whore’s vengeance…”
• “I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint.”
• “Is there no good penitence but it be public?”
• “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!”
Elizabeth Proctor
• Stage directions: She receives it.
• “She thinks to take my place, John.”
• “Adultery, John.”
• “He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!”
Rebecca Nurse
• “I have seen them all through their silly seasons…”
• “Let us rather blame ourselves…”
Reverend Hale
• “We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are as definite as stone…”
• “But it does not follow that everyone accused is part of it.”
• “I may shut my conscience to it no more – private vengeance is working through this testimony!”
• “I denounce these
Characters:
Abigail Williams
• Stage directions: an endless capacity for dissembling
• “…and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.”
• “I’d almost forgot how strong you are, John Proctor!”
• Stage directions: Winningly she comes a little closer, with a confidential, wicked air.
• “I want to open myself! I want the light of God… I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”
• Stage directions: in an open threat. “Let you beware, Mr Danforth.”
• Stage directions: They all watch, as Abigail, out of her infinite charity, reaches out and draws the sobbing Mary to her, and then looks up to Danforth.
John Proctor
• “Ah, you’re wicked yet, aren’t y’!”
• “It’s well seasoned.”
• “It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. Aye, naked! And the wind, God’s icy wind, will blow!”
• “But it is a whore’s vengeance…”
• “I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint.”
• “Is there no good penitence but it be public?”
• “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!”
Elizabeth Proctor
• Stage directions: She receives it.
• “She thinks to take my place, John.”
• “Adultery, John.”
• “He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!”
Rebecca Nurse
• “I have seen them all through their silly seasons…”
• “Let us rather blame ourselves…”
Reverend Hale
• “We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are as definite as stone…”
• “But it does not follow that everyone accused is part of it.”
• “I may shut my conscience to it no more – private vengeance is working through this testimony!”
• “I denounce these