The Crucible Acts 3 and 4 Key Themes and Quotes

Vengeance
1. "there is none but Putnam with the coin to buy so great a piece"
2. "(in an open threat) Let you beware, Mr Danforth"
3. "A wind, a cold wind, has come"
4. "private vengeance is working through this testimony"
Mass hysteria
1. "They've come to overthrow the court, sir!"
2. "There is a prodigious fear of the court in the country-"
3. "I heard the other girls screaming, and you, Your Honour, you seemed to believe them"
4. "in a genuine conversation with the 'bird'"
5. "Mary, as though infected opens her mouth and screams with them"
6. "Don't touch me - don't touch me!"
7. "A pair of bluebirds wingin' southerly, the two of us!
8. "This way, unconfessed and claiming innocence, doubts are multiplied"
Religion
1. "Such a Christian that will not come to church"
2. "we live no longer in the dusky afternoon"
3. "remember what the angel Raphael said to the boy Tobias"
4. "there is a moving plot to topple Christ in the country"
5. "Do you not know that God damns all liars?"
6. "she were twice this year put out...for laughter during prayer
7. "Will you confess yourself befouled with Hell?"
8. "I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth!"
9. "as God have not empowered me like Joshua to stop this sun from rising, so I cannot withhold them from the perfection of their punishment"
10. "where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up"
11. "Is there no good penitence but it be public?"
Honesty and truthfulness
1. "It were pretence, sir"
2. "That woman will never lie"
3. "She swears now that she never saw Satan"
4. "There might also be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it."
5. "I have known her, sir. I have known her"
6. "damnation's doubled on a minister who counsels men to lie"
7. "Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it"
8. "She is one foot in Heaven now; naught may hurt her more"
9. "But let none be your judge."
10. "Proctor tears the paper...he is weeping in fury, but erect"
11. "I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor"
12. "I've had no breakfast"
13. "He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!"
Injustice and intolerance
1. "I am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is." "How do you know, then, that you are not a witch?"
2. "This is contempt, sir, contempt!"
3. "Is every defence an attack upon the court?"
4. "a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between"
5. "it may well be that Mary Warren has been conquered by Satan...If so, her neck will break for it."
6. "Surely it have no bearing on the question, sir"
7. "nudges a bundle of rags lying on it"
8. "Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part"
9. "an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes"
10. "A very ape would weep at such calamity!"
Deception
1. "The girls are frauds"
2. "Excellency, you surely cannot think to let so vile a lie be spread in open court!"
3. "Surely Your Excellency is not taken by this simple lie"
4. "To be mistrusted, denied, questioned like a-"
5. "himself engaged and entered by Abigail"
6. "Abigail, out of her infinite charity, reaches out and draws the sobbing Mary to her"
7. "My niece, sir, my niece - I believe she has vanished."
Suspicion and lack of trust
1. "Giles Corey, sir, and a more contentious-"
2. "We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment"
3. "for a man of such terrible learning you are most bewildered"
4. "his first real outburst, in which his contempt for Parris is clear"
5. "a very augur bit will now be turned into your souls"
6. "I denounce these proceedings!"
7. "Suspicion kissed you when I did"
Self-interest
1. "to enlist Danforth's sarcasm"
2. "He states that you coldly prompted your daughter to cry witchery upon George Jacobs"
3. "So let her turn herself cold now...let her faint"
4. "She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave!"
5. "it profit nothing you should blame me"
6. "There is danger for me. I dare not step outside at night!"
7. "If you desire a cup of cider, Mr Proctor"
8. "hysterically, as though the tearing paper were his life"
9. "Shall the dust praise him? Shall the worms declare his truth?"
Reputation
1. "And seventy-two condemned to hang by that signature?"
2. "I mentioned my wife's name once and I'll burn in hell long enough for that."
3. "I have made a bell of my honour! I have rung the doom of my good name"
4. "Rebecca Nurse is no Bridget that lived three year with Bishop before she married him"
5. "she will not let herself be drowned in the sea that threatens her"
6. "I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint"
7. "a vanity that will not blind God nor keep my children out the wind"
8. "Why, for the good instruction of the village"
9. "They think to go like saints. I like not to spoil their names."
10. "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!...I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"

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