Quotes (The Crucible)

Quotes (The Crucible)

1. "Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up" Hale to Elizabeth

   • Simile: He says "like a bridegroom" Hale came to Salem as he was very excited about coming to Salem and getting rid of the witchcraft, and initially supported it as well, but then when he realised what was actually happening, "my bright confidence died"

2. "He have his goodness now" Elizabeth to Hale

   • Elizabeth said this when she refuses to step in and plead with John to confess to save his life. This is because finally Proctor felt like he was doing the right thing and she wouldn't dare to interfere with this. The technique used in this is the diction because it shows how they used to speak back then.

3. "The necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or a church state" Hale

4. "Let either of you breathe a word... I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.

5. " I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it" John Proctor

6. extraneous detail

7. "Giles, furious, with his fists clenched"

   • To portray how angry he is at