Unit 5: Part 3 Vocabulary II

This predilection for minding other people’s business was time-honored among the people of Salem, and it undoubtedly created many of the suspicions which were to feed the coming madness.

They were a band of individualists, and a much more ingratiating group than the Massachusetts men.

He is bending to kneel again when his niece, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, seventeen, enters—a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling.

In Proctor’s presence a fool felt his foolishness instantly—and a Proctor is always marked for calumny therefore.

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regarded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapses; when we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man’s worthlessness—until redeemed—the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church-state.

I have no doubt that people were communing with, and even worshiping, the Devil in Salem, and if the whole truth could be known in this case, as it is in others, we should discover a regular and conventionalized propitiation of the dark spirit.

You cannot evade me, Abigail. Did your cousin drink any of the brew in that kettle?

Her strangeness throws him off, and her evident pallor and weakness.

He sentenced her. He must. To ameliorate it: But not Sarah Good. For Sarah Good confessed, y’see.

Aye, but then Judge Hathorne say, “Recite for us your commandments!”—leaning avidly toward them—and of all the ten she could not say a single one.

Woman, am I so base? Do you truly think me base?

He is different now—drawn a little, and there is a quality of deference, even of guilt, about his manner now.

Mr. Proctor, your house is not a church; your theology must tell you that.

DANFORTH, looking directly at GILES: Who is this man?
PARRIS: Giles Corey, sir, and a more contentious—
GILES, to PARRIS: I am asked the question, and I am old enough to answer it!

She has signed a deposition, sir—

DANFORTH, now an almost imperceptible hardness in his voice: Then your purpose is somewhat larger.

Old man, if your informant tells the truth let him come here openly like a decent man. But if he hide in anonymity I must know why.

This is a court of law, Mister. I’ll have no effrontery here!

DANFORTH, pointing at ABIGAIL, incredulously: This child would murder your wife?

DANFORTH, conciliatory: You misunderstand, sir; I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just.

Now hear me, and beguile yourselves no more. I will not receive a single plea for pardon or postponement.

If retaliation is your fear, know this—I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes.

Is he yet adamant? Has he struck at you again?

Beware, Goody Proctor—cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

He moves as an animal, and a fury is riding in him, a tantalized search.

This scene will be built with a lot of very tight close ups of crew and reporters. Everyone is very aware of their vulnerability.

He sits noticing The Boys. They give little waves, MURROW acknowledges them.

That is the language of our statute of treason.

He proved again that anyone who exposes him, anyone who does not share his hysterical disregard to decency and human dignity and the rights guaranteed by the Constitution must be either a Communist or a fellow traveler.

Riffling back the pages of American history, he has written the drama of the witch trials and hangings in Salem in 1692.

Silly accusations of witchcraft by some mischievous girls in Puritan dress gradually take possession of Salem.

It is no coincidence that both Day-Lewis and Allen, finely drawn as the wife uncertain of her husband’s love, flourish in their scenes with Scofield as Judge Danforth, the somber leader of a tribunal sent to investigate the witchcraft allegations.

In The New York Times, Janet Maslin called it a “vibrant” and “beautifully acted” adaptation of Mr. Miller’s 1953 play about witch hunts and marital betrayal in 17th-century Salem, Mass.

The prompt does not simply require you to express your personal opinions. Instead, it asks you to defend and support. To do so, cite convincing and varied evidence.

The prompt does not simply require you to express your personal opinions. Instead, it asks you to defend and support. To do so, cite convincing and varied evidence.