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The Crucible

The Crucible. Characterisation Act 2. John Proctor. ‘ I mean to please you Elizabeth.’ (pg52) ‘He gets up, goes to her, kisses her. She receives it.’ ‘Learn charity woman. I cannot speak but I am doubted.’ (pg55)

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The Crucible

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  1. The Crucible Characterisation Act 2

  2. John Proctor • ‘I mean to please you Elizabeth.’ (pg52) • ‘He gets up, goes to her, kisses her. She receives it.’ • ‘Learn charity woman. I cannot speak but I am doubted.’ (pg55) • ‘Your spirit twists around the single error in my life, and I will never tear it free.’ (pg61) • What dothese quotes show about their relationship?

  3. Proctor • ‘I know the children’s sickness has naught to do with witchcraft.’ (pg 65) • I wonder if my story will be credited in such a court.’ • Is the accuser always holy now? • 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!’ (pg 72) • Accuses Hale: ‘Pontius Pilot! God will not let you wash your hands of this!’ And ‘You are a coward!’ (pg 72/3)

  4. Elizabeth Proctor • ‘What keeps you so late? It’s almost dark?’ • The towns gone wild…She speak of Abigail, and I thought she were a saint…where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel…if they scream and howl…the person’s clapped in jail for witchcraft.’ • ‘You were alone with her?’ • She wants me dead. I knew all week it would come to this.’ • What do these quotes reveal about the character of Elizabeth?

  5. Mary Warren • How has Mary changed from Act 1? • ‘I must tell you, sir, I will be gone every day now. I am amazed you do not see what weighty work we do.’ (pg58) • ‘I’m an official of the court.’ • I’ll not be ordered to bed no more, Mr Proctor.’

  6. Mary Warren • The following quotes show a return of Mary’s fear • ‘I cannot charge murder on Abigail.’ (pg74) • ‘She’ll kill me… she’ll charge lechery on you,’ • ‘I cannot do it, they’ll turn on me.’ • She is over and over again sobbing, ‘I cannot I cannot.’

  7. Mr John Hale • ‘The powers of dark are gathered in monstrous attack on this village.’ (pg62) • ‘I have. I – I have indeed.’ (It is his own suspicion, but he resists it.) • ‘If she is innocent, the court –’ (pg 72) • (Pleading) …the Devil is alive in Salem and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!’ • Hale is losing his conviction. Is he cautious or a coward to not speak up?

  8. Mr John Hale • Coward or cautious? • ‘What I have heard in her favour I will not hesitate to testify in court.’ (pg 73) • ‘The world goes mad and it profit you nothing that you should lay the cause to the vengeance of a little girl.’

  9. Old Giles • ‘John...they take my wife!’ – reflects on Proctor’s respected status in the community that he comes to him for help. • ‘I never said my wife were a witch, Mr Hale; I only said she were reading books.’

  10. Francis Nurse • ‘My wife is the very brick and mortar of the church.’ (pg 67) • ‘For murder she’s charged. (Mockingly quoting the warrant) For the marvellous and supernatural murder of Goody Putman’s babies.’

  11. Cheever • ‘Abigail Williams charge her.’ (pg 69) • ‘… stuck two inches into in the flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out… she testify it were your wife’s familiar spirit that pushed it in.’ (pg 70)

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