Fear in the Crucible Quotes

Betty Act 1 in Hysteria

‘I’ll fly to Mama’

Betty to Abigail Act 1

‘Drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife'

Abigail threatening the other girls Act 1

‘I will come to you in the black of some night and I will bring you a pointy reckoning that will shudder you’

Abigail hysterically accuses other women Act 1

‘I saw Sarah Good with the Devil!’ ‘I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil!’

Parris afreaid to lose me job

‘If you trafficked with spirits in the forest I must know it now, for my enemies sure will, and they will ruin me for it’

Tituba falsely confessing

‘The Devil got him numerous witches’

Danforth motif

‘invisible crime’

Danforth preserving power of court

‘You misunderstand me sir; I cannot pardon these when twelve others have been hanged for the same crime’ ‘It is not just’

Mary Warren imperative

‘Abby don’t do that’

Giles about Putnam stealing land

‘The day his daughter cried out about Jacobs, he said she’d given him a fair gift of land’

Goody Proctor about false confessions

‘Governor promise hanging if they’ll not confess’

Mary Warren stage direction when taken over by Abigail

‘With a hysterical cry, Mary Warren starts to run’

Mary Warren when she turns against Proctor

‘You are the Devil’s man’