Crucible: Act IV Notes

122: Herrick: “I’d not refuse it, Tituba: it’s a proper morning to fly into Hell.”

123: Herrick: “That’s not Satan, just a poor cow with a hatful of milk.”

Parris’s mad look: fears for his own life because of happenings in Andover

Abigail and Mercy have run away because afraid of rebellion, stolen all Parris’s money

What happened in Andover?

Why do they all want Rev. Hale to succeed in getting a confession?

Why does Hale work so hard to get a confession?

129: Danforth: “. . . the village expects to see them die this morning. Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now. . . I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law . . .”

131: Hale “I come to do the Devil’s work. I come to counsel Christians they should belie themselves.” “I count myself his murderer”

132: Hale “I cam into this village like a bridegroom . . . cleave to no faith when faith brings blood . . .”

135: Elizabeth: “I cannot judge you, John.”

136: Proctor: “I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint. It is a fraud. I am not that man.”

136: Elizabeth: “John, it come to naught that I should forgive you, if you’ll not forgive yourself.”

137: Elizabeth: “But let none be your judge. There be no higher judge under Heaven than Proctor is.”

141: Proctor: “I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another.”

143: Proctor “I blacken all of them when this is nailed to the church the very day they hang for silence.”

“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I like and sign myself to lies. Because I am not worth the dust on the feet that them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”

144: Proctor: “You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor”