The Crucible Hot Seat Quotes

Directions: You may use your Character Worksheet and reading guides/notes to help you with this. 1. Listen to the character quote read aloud. 2. If that is your character, go to the “hot seat” and read the quote again. 3. Students in the audience will then ask you questions, and you will answer the questions in the manner that YOUR CHARACTER would respond-you are “in role” at this point. 4. Students will then respond (on the white board) to the question, “Who said it?” We’ll discuss/support correct answers. 5. We may increase the difficulty level (because you all are SO good): Students in the audience will ask questions AS THEIR CHARACTER (“in role”), not as themselves. 6. Remember: The student in the “hot seat” is ALWAYS “in role.” Answer as your character, not yourself.

1. Who said it? “ I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!”

Who said it? Abigail How can you tell that Abigail said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

2. Who said it? “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.”

Who said it? Danforth How can you tell that Danforth said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? (Hint, it also tells us something about another character-who?) How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

3.Who said it? “ Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own.  I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up. “

Who said it? Rev. Hale How can you tell that Hale said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

4. Who said it? “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!”

Who said it? John Proctor How can you tell that Proctor said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

5. Who said it? “Abigail I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character. I have given you a home, child, I have put clothes upon your back- now give me an upright answer. Your name in the town- it is entirely white, is it not?”

Who said it? Rev. Parris How can you tell that Parris said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

6. Who said it? "I think she'll wake in time. Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.“ “It is not witchcraft, it is mischief. If you humor it, gives them greater freedom to do worser things.”

Who said it? Rebecca Nurse How can you tell that Goody Nurse said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

7. Who said it? “You think it God's work you should never lose a child, nor grandchild either, and I bury all but one? There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!"

Who said it? Goody Putnam How can you tell that the Mrs. Putnam said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

8. Who said it? “I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John- only somewhat confused.”

Who said it? Elizabeth Proctor How can you tell that Goody Proctor said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

9. Who said it? “More Weight.”

Who said it? Giles Corey How can you tell that Giles Corey said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

10. Who said it? “Oh, it be no hell in Barbados. Devil, him be pleasure man in Barbados, him be singin’ and dancing’ in Barbados. It’s you folks-you riles him up ‘round here; it be too cold ‘round her for that Old Boy. He freeze his soul in Massachusetts, but in Barbados, he just as sweet…”

Who said it? Tituba How can you tell that Tituba said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

11.Who said it?-Everyone Participates- (Repeat Quotes/Characters) "Excellency, it is a natural lie to tell; I beg you, stop now before another condemned! I may shut my conscience to it no more- private vengeance is working through this testimony! From the beginning this man has struck me as true."

Who said it? Rev. Hale How can you tell that Hale said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

12. Who said it? "A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!"

Who said it? John Proctor How can you tell that Proctorsaid it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

13. Who said it? “But witchcraft is ipso facto, on its face and by its nature, an invisible crime, is not? Therefore, who may possibly be witness to it? The witch and the victim. None other. Now we cannot hope the witch will accuse herself; granted? Therefore, we must rely upon her victim- and they do testify, the children certainly do testify."

Who said it? Danforth How can you tell that Danforth said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

15. Who said it? “I am sick, I am sick, Mr. Proctor. Pray, pray, hurt me not. My insides are all shuddery; I am in the proceedings all day, sir…I must tell you sir, I will be gone every day now. I am amazed that you do not see what weighty work we do.”

Who said it? Mary Warren How can you tell that Mary Warren said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

14. Who said it? “And mark this.  Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.  And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!”

Who said it? Abigail How can you tell that Abigail said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?

15. Who said it? “I came to think he fancied her. And do one night I lost my wits and put her out on the high road.”

Who said it? Elizabeth Proctor How can you tell that Elizabeth Proctor said it? How does this dialogue help with characterization? How does the characterization affect the plot/move it along/make it work?