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The Crucible Quotes

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"There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!" - Mrs Putnam Theme: Hysteria. Techniques: repetition, conduplicatio, symbolism
"I'll tell you what's walking in Salem - vengeance is walking in Salem." - Proctor Theme: Hysteria Techniques: antanaclasis, truncated sentence.
"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!" - Proctor Theme: hysteria techniques: repetition, contrast, metaphorical imagery.
"A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth!...God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!" - Proctor Theme: hysteria techniques: repetition, biblical allusion, metaphor, paradox.
"The devil is precise; the marls of his presence are definite as stone." Theme: fear Techniques: simile
"Don't lie!...She comes to me while I sleep; she's always making me dream corruptions!"- Abigail Theme: fear Techniques: dramatic irony, symbolism.
"the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow where the accusing finger points!" Theme: fear techniques: foreshadowing, synecdoche
"Oh the noose, the noose is up!" - Elizabeth Theme: fear techniques: metonym, repetition, metaphor.
Elizabeth, with great fear, "I will fear nothing." Theme: fear technique: contrast, irony
"She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris' house tonight, and without word nor warnin' she falls to the floor. Like a struck beast, he says, and screamed a scream that a bull would weep to hear. " - Cheever Theme: fear Techniques: polysyndeton, simile, bestial connotations, alliteration.
"I am not empowered to trade your life for a lie....Mr Proctor, a score of people have already testified they saw this woman with the Devil." - Danforth Theme: fear techniques: dramatic irony, alliteration, biblical allusion.
"It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice. Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.,,it may well be God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride." - Danforth Theme: fear techniques: contrast, asyndeton, repetition.
"I would to God it were not so, Excellency, but these people have great weight yet about the town." - Parris Theme: fear techniques: comparison, dramatic irony.
"Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now. While I speak God's law, I will not crack its voice with whimpering." - Hathorne theme: fear techniques: oxymoron, metaphor, contrast
"I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire and bloody damnation. Take it to heart, Mr Parris. There are many others who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God anymore." - Proctor Theme: reputation techniques: dramatic irony, contrast.
"My name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name is soiled! Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar!" - Abigail Theme: reputation techniques: exclamation, metonym, motif.
"I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another...I have no tongue for it." - Proctor Theme: reputation/judgement techniques: tricolon, metaphor, motif.
"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life." - Proctor Theme: reputation technqiues: metonym, motif, biblical symbolism.
"I want to open myself!...I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I sam him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! - Abigail Theme: autonomy techniques: anaphora, biblical allusion, contrast.
"You are not undone! Let you take hold here. Wait for no one to charge you - declare it yourself." - Putnam Theme: autonomy techniques: exclamation, caesura
"Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now...And the wind, God's icy wind, will blow!" Theme: autonomy techniques: repetition, imagery, juxtaposition.
"I'll plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!" - Proctor Theme: autonomy techniques: biblical imagery, metaphor, hyperbole.
"A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now. I beg you, sir, I beg you - see her what she is...she thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. "- Proctor theme: autonomy techniques: parataxis, jusxtaposition, metonym.
"God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore's vengeance." - Proctor theme: autonomy techniques: parataxis, jusxtaposition, metonym.
"He know it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what I sign to is not the same!" - Proctor Theme: autonomy techniques: rhyme, repetition.
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