English Quotes on the Crucible and Emma

Intro - Omniscient Narration

“Handsome, clever and rich”

Quote showing Emma’s relationship with her father

“Most affectionate indulgent father”

Emma seeing Harriet as her Pygmalion project

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

Emma criticising Jane’s abandonment of the Bates’

“Superior companions who have always loved her with real, generous affection”

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

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

Emma feeling sorry for having to do her duty

“…Sorry— to have to pay civilities to a person she did not like through three long months!— To be always doing more than she wished, and less than she ought!”

Term to describe Mr Woodhouse’s duty to Highbury

“Universally civil”

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

“Scornful” “Ungracious”

Showing Emma’s change as a character

“A regular, equal, kindly intercourse”

Crucible ironic statement on collective behaviour

“In unity still lay the best promise of safety”

Ironic statement in the crucible about the courts

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

Stage direction showing pack behaviour of the girls in The Crucible

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

Quote about Abigail’s motivations in The Crucible

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

Giles quote about people’s selfish reasons in the crucible

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

Miller’s commentary about the Crucible

“The Salem tragedy…developed from a paradox".”

Giles talking about his guilt in his role

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

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

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

Hale criticising Parris for his actions within the court in The Crucible

“Is every defense an attack upon the court?”

The importance of Proctor’s name The Crucible

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

Elizabeth commenting on Proctor’s death The Crucible

“He have his goodness now”

The injustice within the courts because of the nature of the crime The Crucible

“…witchcraft is ipso facto…by its nature an invisible crime…The witch and the victim. None other.”

Classism and Emma’s situation in Emma

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

Emma’s delusions about Harriet and Mr Knightley calling her out

“…He is as much her superior in sense as in situation. Emma, your infatuation about that girl blinds you.”

Quote showing Miss Bates’ goodness Emma

“Miss Bates…had never boasted either beauty or cleverness…And yet she was a happy woman, and a woman whom no one named without good-will.”

Hartfield as a metaphor for Emma’s isolation

“Hartfield…Afforded her no equals”

The importance of parentage defining class in Emma

“Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of somebody”

Emma’s adoption of Harriet

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

Mr Woodhouse’s sheltering of himself

“For having been a valetudinarian all his life…He was a much older man in ways than in years.”

Mr Knightley as the moral tutor and a foil to Mr Woodhouse

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

Emma’s epiphany at Box Hill

“With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody’s feelings”

Emma’s view of everything as a game

“It is the greatest amusement in the world!” “Blunder”

Proctor statement about holiness

“Is the accuser always holy now?”

Final stage direction in The Crucible

[The new sun is pouring in upon her face, and the drums rattle like bones in the morning air.]

Mrs Elton as a mirror to Emma

“Mrs. Elton was a vain woman…thinking much of her own importance”

Emma’s dangerous situation

“A disposition to think a little too well of herself”