Proctor to Hale - Accuser
Miller crituques
“Is the accuser always Holy now?”
Miller critiques how moral binaries distort justice - morroring McCarthy-era logic.
Danforth believes Mary
“Danforth’s head jerks towards Proctor”
&
“You are combined with anti-Christ, are you not?”
Mary goes to court defiantly
“I will be gone every day now. I am amazed you do not see the weighty work we do,”
Definite statement. Diction -> arrogant tone.
Abigail lists names
“I saw Goody… with the Devil! I saw Bridget… with the Devil!”
Mrs. Putnam
There are wheels within wheels, and fires within fires!
Paris demands Abigail confesses, (quote), and insists they conjured spirits
“And what shall I say to them? That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the forest?”
“It is not just”
“I cannot pardon these when twelve already hanged for the same crime. It is. It is not just.”
Danforth pressuring Proctor in Act 4
“You have certainly some person with the Devil.”
Proctor refuses to give his signed testimony back
“I confess to God, and God has seen my name on this? It is enough!”
