Page Number and Citation : 27 Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! 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? I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! Page Number and Citation : 22 Cite this Quote. I want to open myself! I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil! Related Characters: Abigail Williams speaker , Mrs.
Osburn , Sarah Good. Page Number and Citation : 45 Cite this Quote. Act 2 Quotes. I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it. Page Number and Citation : 62 Cite this Quote. I'll tell you what's walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem. 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!
This warrant's vengeance! I'll not give my wife to vengeance! Page Number and Citation : 73 Cite this Quote. Act 3 Quotes. Do you take it upon yourself to determine what this court shall believe and what it shall set aside? This is the highest court of the supreme government of this province, do you know it? Page Number and Citation : 79 Cite this Quote.
You must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time—we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world.
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As Mary heads up to bed, Proctor asks if it's true that fourteen people are in jail. Mary says that now thirty-nine are in jail: Goody Osburn has been convicted and will hang, while Sarah Good confessed to witchcraft and thereby saved herself. Hysteria feeds itself and grows: now people have confessed to non-existent witchcraft! But Sarah Good's confession was the only way for her to save herself. By the way: the Fifth Amendment to the U.
Constitution is designed to eliminate this sort of forced confession. Proctor says that Sarah Good is just a "jabberer. Mary adds that she now realizes Good had tried to kill her in the past: whenever Good came begging and Mary turned her away, Good would mumble, and one time Mary felt extremely sick just afterwards.
But when Hathorne asked her to recite them, she didn't know even one. Hysteria isn't just a bunch of people lying: it's a blinding force that changes people's conceptions of reality. Mary Warren, who knows there was no witchcraft because she was in the woods that night, now believes witchcraft exists. Proctor considers this weak evidence and tells Mary not to go to town again. Mary refuses. When Proctor moves to whip her, Mary shouts that she saved Elizabeth 's life: Elizabeth was accused of witchcraft, but Mary said she'd seen no sign of it in her time living with the Proctors, so the court dismissed the charge.
Elizabeth asks who accused her, but Mary refuses to say and goes to bed. Just as witchcraft gives Mrs. Putnam an object to blame for her bad luck, it gives the formerly powerless Mary a new sense of strength. This feeling of strength, in turn, becomes a subconscious motive for her to believe that the witchcraft is real.
Proctor and Elizabeth know Abigail is behind the accusation. Elizabeth says Abigail wants to replace her as Proctor's wife. She tells him to go speak to her, to make it clear to Abigail that she'll never take Elizabeth's place. Proctor agrees to go, but is still angry that his wife doesn't trust him. Though Proctor can sense the mounting hysteria and knows that it's costing innocent people their lives, he's still most concerned about protecting his reputation.
Related Quotes with Explanations. Suddenly Hale appears at the door, startling both Elizabeth and Proctor. Hale says that without the court's authority he's visiting each of the families "somewhat mentioned" in the trial to try to get a sense of them. He's just come from Rebecca Nurse 's house. Proctor and Elizabeth are shocked. Rebecca Nurse is well known as the most religious person in Salem.
Hale says the devil can tempt anyone, but nonetheless says he's certain Rebecca won't be charged. The first sign of Hale's integrity: he's uncomfortable with the trials.
Unlike the court, which demands confessions on pain of death and then uses those false confessions to condemn innocent victims, Hale searches for actual evidence.
Hale asks some questions about the "Christian character" of the house. He asks why the Proctors don't often go to church, and why only two of their three sons are baptized. Proctor explains he doesn't see the "light of God" in Parri s. Hale says that such a thing is not for Proctor to decide: Parris is an ordained minister, therefore he has the "light of God. Proctor gets nine of ten, forgetting the one against adultery.
The missed commandment troubles Hale, and he gets up to go. Puritan society denies the individual any right to make his or her own judgments. The Puritans think they have God on their side, and therefore cannot make mistakes. If a man has been ordained as a minister, then he must be good and wise.
And if someone disagrees with that assessment, then he or she must be against God. Just as Hale is about to leave, Elizabeth persuades Proctor to speak up about Abigail. The news shakes Hale, who points out that many have confessed. Proctor counters by pointing out that they've confessed to save themselves from certain death.
This realization has troubled Hale too, but he's avoided facing it until now.
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