Reputation and Integrity
What John Proctor says when he is asked to sign his confession.
Because it is my name! How may I live without my name?
The threat Abigail makes to the girls when they talk about telling the truth about what happened in the woods.
I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.
Metaphor used by Ann Putnam to describe personal agendas.
Motif that flows through the play and is reflected in the title.
Fire.
What Hale says to Danforth and Hathorn when he realises that the accusations of witchcraft are untrue.
I quit this court!
Simile Parris uses about expected obedience to the church.
There is either obedience or the church will burn like hell is burning.
Metaphor Hales used to describe the rigid ideologies of the church and obedience to them.
Theology sir, is a fortress, no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.
What is a crucible?
A vessel used to heat to intense temperatures and refine and remove impurities from precious metals.
What John Proctor says when asked to confess (in reference to Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey and Elizabeth Proctor,etc)
I blacken all of them when this is nailed to the church the very day they hang for silence.
What Elizabeth says when Rebecca Nurse is jailed.
They've surely gone wild now.
What John Proctor tells Danforth and Hathorn when he takes Mary Warren to expose the girls' lies.
I'll tell you what's walking in Salem-vengeance is walking in Salem.
What does the title, 'The Crucible' symbolise?
The intense personal trials that the Salemites are about to endure. It would show their true personalities.
What Hale says when he is trying to convince Elizabeth to encourage John Proctor to lie and confess he trafficked with the devil.
What profit him to bleed? Shall the dust praise him? Shall the worms declare his truth?
Metaphor that Danforth uses when explaining what the court does to discover truth.
We burn a hot fire here, it melts down all concealment.
What Danforth says about the court.
A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there will be no road between.
What Parris says when Thomas Putnam declares that there is witchcraft alive in Salem.
They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house.
If you trafficked with spirits in the forest, they will ruin me with it.
What Hale says when Rebecca Nurse is jailed.
...if Rebecca Nurse be tainted then there's nothing left to stop the whole green world from burning.
What John Proctor says about Parris's materialistic values.
Mr Parris you are the first minister ever did demand the deed to this house.