Crucible Quotes
When using a quote in your essay, it needs to be integrated.
If I wanted to use this quote:
“When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can pity them all, just as we
shall be pitied someday. It is still impossible for man to organize his social life without
repressions, and the balance has yet to be struck between order and freedom.” Act I, page
I would integrate it like this:
Ex: As the trials dig deeper into the individual’s daily life, Miller exemplifies precisely
how “the balance has yet to be struck between order and freedom” in pursuing justice
(1243).
Directions: Choose 3 quotes and make integrated quotations according to MLA guidelines.
Below are some significant quotes to the story of The Crucible. Write a sentence below each quote
that integrates part of it into a sentence. Use your MLA formatting sheet to help you.
1. “I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! 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! And now you bid me tear the light out of my
eyes?” Act I, page
2. “But wilted, and, like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have
mistaken you for God that day. But you’re not, and let you remember it!” Act II, page
3. “I tell you straight, Mister—I have seen marvels in this court. I have seen people choked before
my eyes by spirits; I have seen them struck by pins and slashed by daggers. I have until this
moment not the slightest reason to suspect that the children may be deceiving me. Do you
understand my meaning?” Act III, page
4.
“A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and
yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as
you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud—God damns our kind
especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!” Act IV, page
5. “ Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon
the guilt of them that died till now.” Act IV, page
6. “Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I should say my love. It were a cold
house I kept!” Act IV, page
7. “I have confessed myself! Is there no good penitence but it be public? God does not need his
name nailed upon the church! God sees my name; God knows how black my sins are! It is
enough!” Act IV, page
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