The Crucible
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- Procter
- angered—at himself as well: You’ll speak nothin’ ofElizabeth!
- “She is blackening my name in the village! She is tellinglies about me!”
- abigail
- Hale
- “I have seen too many frightful proofs in court—theDevil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to followwherever the accusing finger points!”
- in great pain: Man, remember, until an hour before theDevil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
- angered: How may such a woman murder children?
- Procter
- Danforth
- Mr. Hale, believe me: for a man of such terriblelearning you are most bewildered—I hope you will forgive me. Ihave been thirty-two year at the bar, sir, and I should beconfounded were I called upon to defend these people. Let youconsider, now—To proctor and the others: And I bid you all dolikewise. In an ordinary crime, how does one defend theaccused? One calls up witnesses to prove his innocence. Butwitchcraft is ipso facto, on its face and by its nature, an invisiblecrime, is it not? Therefore, who may possibly be a witness to it?The witch and the victim. None other. Now we cannot hope thewitch will accuse herself: granted? Therefore, we must rely uponher victims—and they do testify, the children certainly do testify.As for the witches, none will deny that we are most eager for alltheir confessions. Therefore, what is left for a lawyer to bringout? I think I have made my point. Have I not?
- But this child claims the girls are not truthful, and if theyare not—
- Hale
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