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What court? They've sent four judges out of Boston, she says, weighty magistrates of the General Court, and at the head sits the Deputy Governor of the Province. There be fourteen people in the jail now, she says. Proctor simply looks at her, unable to grasp it. And they'll be tried, and the court have power to hang them too, she says. The town's gone wild, I think. She speak of Abigail, and I thought she were a saint, to hear her. Abigail brings the other girls into the court, and where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel.

And folks are brought before them, and if they scream and howl and fall to the floor—the person's clapped in the jail for bewitchin' them.

He turns to her. I think so. You must tell them it is a fraud. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband any more. You forget nothin' and forgive nothin'. Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven month since she is gone. I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house! You saw her with a crowd, you said. I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and, like a Christian, I confessed. Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. But you're not, you're not, and let you remember it! Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John with a smile , only somewhat bewildered. Elizabeth is a good and just woman, but forgiveness is difficult under any circumstances—and as a result, her husband feels judged every day of their marriage.

The situation is a difficult one. They both assume the worst about the other person. Proctor, she come to this very door, beggin' bread and a cup of cider—and mark this: whenever I turned her away empty, she mumbled. She may mumble if she's hungry. You must remember, Goody Proctor. Last month—a Monday, I think—she walked away, and I thought my guts would burst for two days after. Do you remember it?

I only say my commandments; I hope I may say my commandments," says she! She never knew no commandments, and they had her in a flat lie! It's hard proof, hard as rock, the judges said. Mary, on the other hand, is caught up in the excitement and prestige of the court. Proctor continues toward her. Abby'll charge lechery on you, Mr. She'll ruin you with it, I know she will. Then her saintliness is done with. Mary backs from him. We will slide together into our pit; you will tell the court what you know.

I will bring your guts into your mouth but that goodness will not die for me! Now Hell and Heaven grapple on our backs, and all our old pretense is ripped away—make your peace! He throws her to the floor, where she sobs, "I cannot, I cannot. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. He walks as though toward a great horror, facing the open sky. Here are all your familiar spirits — your incubi and succubi; your witches that go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day.

Have no fear now — we shall find him out if he has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face! Reverend Hale character. You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor.

Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John — only somewhat bewildered. Elizabeth Proctor character. Rebecca Nurse character. 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?

Why is the play called The Crucible? What is a crucible? Did the girls really see the Devil or witches? Why did Tituba confess to dancing with the Devil? Was John still in love with Abigail? What causes tension between John and Elizabeth Proctor? Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name! I have no tongue for it. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! God forbid I take it from him! They say he give them but two words.