The Crucible
Significant Quotes
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Quotes: Identify who said it, the situation it was spoken in and what it reveals about the character,
plot or themes.
ACT 1
“And I pray you feel the weight of truth upon you, for now my ministry’s at stake, my ministry
and perhaps your cousin’s life.”
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Significance
“I think we ought rely on the doctor now, and good prayer. There is prodigious danger in seeking
of loose spirits. I fear it, I fear it.”
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ACT 2
“You are a coward! Though you be ordained in God’s own tears, you are a coward now!”
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“And why not, if they must hang for denyin’ it? Three are them that will swear to anything before
they’ll hang; have you never thought of that?”
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Significance
“I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem-vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in
Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common
vengeance writes the law!”
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“It is a mouse no more. I forbid her go, and she raises up her chin like the daughter of a prince
and says to me, ‘I must go to Salem, Goody Proctor; I am an official of the court!’”
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ACT 3
“I will not give you no name. I mentioned my wife’s name once and I’ll burn in hell long enough
for that. I stand mute.”
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“I denounce these proceedings, I quit this court!”
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“You cannot hang this sort. There is danger for me. I dare not step outside at night!”
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"This man is killing his neighbors for their land"
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“I say-I say-God is dead!”
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“I have known her, sir. I have known her.”
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“Excellency, it is a natural lie to tell; I beg you, stop now before another is condemned! I shut my
conscience to it no more-private vengeance is working through this testimony!”
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“There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!!”
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ACT 4
“He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!”
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“I am no saint. Let Rebecca go like a saint; for me it is fraud!”
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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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