English Quotes Emma and Crucible

Miller’s commentary, central paradox

The Salem Tragedy … is developed from a paradox. … when the repression of order were heavier than seemed warranted by the dangerous against which the order was organized.

Miller’s commentary

a perverse manifestation of the panic

Jude Danforth, false dichotomy

A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between

Dr Hale, questioning

Is every defense an attack upon the court? Can no one—?

Rev Hale, integoration

You have confessed yourself to witchcraft … a wish to come to heavens side and we will bless you Tituba

Rev Hale, allusion to the society, irony

theology is a fortress, no crack in a fortress may be accounted small

Rev Hale, cognitive dissonance

The court is just

Rev Hale, questioning danforth

Your Honor, I cannot think you may judge the man on such evidence

Rev Hale, core beliefs

I am a minister… I dare not take a life without there be proof so immaculate, no … conscience may doubt it

Rev Hale, core beliefs

Life is God’s most precious gift, no principle…may justify the taking of it.

Rev Hale, final actions

I come to do the Devil's work. I come to counsel Christians they should belie themselves. There is blood on my head!

John Proctor, questioning

Is the accuser always holy now?

Abigail Williams, violence

I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you

Abigail Williams, manipulation

I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book

Abigail Williams to Judge Danforth

Think you to be so mighty that the power of Hell may not turn your wits?

Mary Warren, irony

We must all love each other now, Goody Proctor

Mary Warren, conforming

I cannot lie no more. I am with God, I am with God…You're the Devil's man!

Mary Warren, conforming

I love God, I bless God. Abby, Abby, I’ll never hurt you more!

John Proctor, nature of society

We are what we always were, but naked now.

John Proctor, pride

How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

Elizabeth Proctor, conclusion

I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor.

Elizabeth Proctor to John Proctor

I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you

John Proctor, to elizabeth, argument act 2

Let you look to your own improvement before to go to judge your husband

Judge Danforth, irony

We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.

John Proctor, guilt, moral dilemma

I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint. It is a fraud. I am not that man

John Proctor, nature of society

The little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom.

John Proctor, moral stumble

I want my life

John Proctor, guilt

God help me I lusted

Miller’s commentary, reasons why society crumbled

long held hatreds of neighbors

Elizabeth Proctor, passive resistance

I cannot dispute with you, sir. I lack learning for it

Mary moral truth, irony

We must tell the truth, Abby!

Mary, fear of the court

I cannot- they’ll turn on me

Mary, wanting to do the right thing

I cannot lie no more… it was a pretence sir

Giles Corey, resisting

I stand mute…More weight

Rebecca nurse, resisting

It is a lie…I cannot

Elizabeth Proctor, moral integrity

I cannot think the Devil may own a woman’s soul…upright ways as I have.

Omniscient Narrator, Volume 1, About Emma

…little to distress or vex her…disposition to think a little too well of herself.

FIN, Emma about harriet

She would notice her; she would improve her; she would detach her from her bad acquaintance

emma, FIN, about match making

greatest amusement in the world

Emma V3, FIN, self growth

She had been often remiss, her conscience told her so

Emma FIN, self growth, rigid class

it struck her with dreadful force, … had brought evil on Harriet, on herself and she too much feared on Mr Knightley

Emma FIN, rigid class

such an elevation on her side! Such as debasement on his!

Emma FIN, relfection about harriet

if Harriet, from being humble, were grown vain, it was her doing

Emma, values of marriage

a man is always admired when he marries well

Emma V1, FIN, Delusion, Mr Elton

She was quite convinced of Mr Elton’s being in the fairest way of falling in love, if not in love already

Emma V3, FIN, realisation

How could she have been so brutal, so cruel to Miss Bates!

About Knightley, impartial critic

He in fact was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma … only one who ever told her of them

Mr Knightley V3

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more

Mr Knightley V3, moral tutor

How could you be so insolent in your wit to a woman of her character, age, and situation?

Knightley to emma, moral tutor

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief

Mr Knightley V3, acknowledging transformation

You are materially changed

Emma FIN, Jane Fairfax

She was disgustingly, was suspiciously reserved

Omniscient, Miss Bates

loved everybody, was interested in everybody’s happiness, quick-sighted to everybody’s merits

Emma about Mrs Elton

A little upstart, vulgar being

Emma FIN, transformation

insufferable vanity …with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody’s destiny.

Emma, Marriage

No hurry at all…I must see somebody very superior to anyone I have seen yet, to be tempted

Emma FIN, Mr Churchill

He was a very good sort of man... but as for anything to captivate, there was nothing

Jane Fairfax, governess

Offices for the sale, not quite of human flesh, but of human intellect

Emma Fin, jane being a governess

horrible indelicate

Emma V3, FIN transformation, about Harriet’s decisions

I really cannot attempt to advise her.

Omniscient, Mr Elton

He had gained a woman of 10,000 pounds… and a place in society

Mr Knightley about Frank Churchill

He is a man whom no girl would be safe with, in her heart

Omniscient on Mrs. Elton, V2

She would never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience

Emma, FIN, Frank’s deceptiveness

He had almost told her that he loved her

Emma, FIN, Mr Martin

walking a few yards forward… soon made her quick eye sufficiently acquainted with Mr. Robert Martin

Mrs Elton, class gatekeeping/grasping, satirising

I would not wish to be inferior to others

Emma, marriage/distorted world view

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else,

Emma gossiping about Jane

dare say she was afraid of finding something disagreeable in her friends married life

Jane Fairfax characterisation

Sweet, amiable,…so very accomplished and superior!… very pretty very well-behaved