English Quotes mid-year yr12

“Handsome, clever and rich”

Intro - Omniscient Narration

“Most affectionate indulgent father”

Quote showing Emma’s relationship with her father

“She would notice her; she would improve her…and introduce her into good society”

Emma seeing Harriet as her Pygmalion project

“How could she have been so brutal, so cruel”

Emma’s free indirect style as she realises her moral failings

“…always doing more than she wished, and less than she ought!”

Emma feeling sorry for having to do her duty

“Universally civil”

Term to describe Mr Woodhouse’s duty to Highbury

“Scornful” “Ungracious”

Word’s to describe Emma’s actions upon her realisation

“In unity still lay the best promise of safety”

Crucible ironic statement on collective behaviour

“A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it,”

Ironic statement in the crucible about the courts

[Enter SUSANNA WALCOTT, MERCY LEWIS, BETTY PARRIS, and finally ABIGAIL…]

Stage direction showing pack behaviour of the girls in The Crucible

“She’d dare not call out such a farmer’s wife but there be monstrous profit in it”

Quote about Abigail’s motivations in The Crucible

“This man is killing his neighbours for their land!”

Giles quote about people’s selfish reasons in the crucible

“I have broke charity with the woman, I have broke charity with her.”

Giles talking about his guilt in his role

[It is his own suspicion, but he resists it]

Stage direction revealing Hale’s true feelings about the court (cognitive dissonance)

“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!…I have given you my soul; leave me my name!””

The importance of Proctor’s name The Crucible

“He have his goodness now”

Elizabeth commenting on Proctor’s death The Crucible

“…It is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public!”

Classism and Emma’s situation in Emma

“very much to the taste of everybody, though single and though poor,”

Emma’s description of Miss Bates

“very little to

distress or vex her,”

Description of Emma at the start of the novel

“I must make myself very disagreeable, or she would not have said such a thing to an old friend.”

Miss Bates’ providing Emma with the benefit of the doubt even after being publically snubbed

“Emma doing just what she liked”

Emma’s freedom to do whatever she wants

“Hartfield…Afforded her no equals”

Hartfield as a metaphor for Emma’s isolation

“Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of somebody”

The importance of parentage in defining class

“…all those natural graces, should not be wasted on the inferior society”

Emma’s thoughts on why she befriends Harriet

“For having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years.”

Mr Woodhouse’s sheltering of Emma and himself

“Mr Knightly, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them”

Mr Knightley as a foil to Mr Woodhouse and a guide to Emma

“With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody’s feelings; with unpardonable arrogance…she was proved to have been universally mistaken.”

Emma’s epiphany at Boxhill

“It is the greatest amusement in the world!”

Austen’s use of games + Emma’s reference to matchmaking as a game

“I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osbourne with the devil!”

Crucible quote scapegoating others

“There is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell”

Reverend Parris pressuring through his preaching

“There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head?”

Quote from Hale showing guilt

“You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!”

Quote from Abigail showing her desperation and Proctor’s sin