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Questions anyone?

Do you have a question about the play? Post your questions in the comment section below, and I can help you!

Quote 15

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“Come now. You say your only purpose is to free your wife. Good then, she is saved at least this year, and a year is long… will you drop this charge?”

Quote 14

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“Is your husband a lecher?”

Quote 13

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“Suspicion kissed you when I did.”

Quote 12

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“I must tell you, sir, I will be gone everyday now. I am amazed you do not see the weighty work we do.”

Quote 11

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“There is a faction that is sworn to drive me from my pulpit.”

Quote 10

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“Tis hard proof! I find here a poppet Goody Proctor keeps. I have found it, sir. And in the belly of the poppet a needle’s stuck.”

Quote 9

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“My name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name is soiled! Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar!”

Quote 8

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

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

Quote 7

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“Do that which is good and no harm will come to thee.”

Quote 6

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“I never said my wife were a witch; I only said she were reading books!”

Quote 5

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“Adultery, John.”

Quote 4

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“You must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time—we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world. Now, by God's grace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it.”

Quote 3

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!”

Quote 2

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death.”

Quote 1

Who said it? Who is the speaker talking to? What is the significance to the play? Do you recognize any literary elements?

“I made a gift for you today…I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing.”