Crucible Four Quotations Exercise

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Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself tolies! 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!1. Who is speaking and at what point?2. What does the speaker not want to happen at this point?3. Comment on the language and sentence construction used:4. What does this speech reveal about the character of the speaker?5. How does this speech reveal a wider theme of the play?6. Explain what the speaker means in the last sentence.

If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris beinnocent or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God’s fingers? 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!1. Who is speaking and at what point?2. What is the purpose of this speech?3. What imagery is used and what effects are created?4. What does this speech reveal about the character of the speaker?5. Is the speaker right in his analysis of the situation?6. What biblical and archaic language is used? What effect does this have?

But 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. Now, by God’sgrace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it.1. Who is speaking and at what point?2. What is the purpose of this speech?3. Comment on how Miller makes the language seem appropriate for the time:4. What does this speech reveal about the character of the speaker?5. How does this speech reveal a wider theme of the play?6. What is the effect of the symbolism in this speech?

Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my bright faith, blood flowed up. Beware, Goody Proctor – cleave to no faithwhen faith brings blood. It is a mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice.1. Who is speaking and at what point?2. What is the purpose of this speech?3. What kinds of imagery are used and what effects do they create?4. What does this speech reveal about the character of the speaker?5. How does this speech reveal a wider theme of the play?

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