Crucible Act I Quote Identification

Who said...

“You people seem not to comprehend that a minister is the Lord’s man in the parish; a minister is not to be so lightly crossed and contradicted—”

• John Proctor

• Reverend Hale

• Thomas Putnam

• Reverend Parris

Who said...

"Have no fear now—we shall find him out [the Devil] if he has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!”

• Thomas Putnam

• Reverend Parris

• John Proctor

• Reverend Hale

Who said:

“No—no. There be no unnatural cause here. Tell him I have sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly, and Mr. Hale will surely confirm that. Let him look to medicine and put out all thought of unnatural causes here. There be none. --- There is a faction that is sworn to drive me from my pulpit.”

• Reverend Samuel Parris

• Abigail Williams

• Mary Warren

• Goody Putnam

Who says...

“I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”

• Reverend Hale

• Reverend Parris

• Abigail Williams

• Mary Warren

Who said...

“Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. 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”

• Reverend Parris

• Rebecca Nurse

• Abigail Williams

• Ann Putnam

Who said...

“I have laid seven babies unbaptized in the earth. Believe me, sir, you never saw more hearty babies born. And yet, each would wither in my arms the very night of their birth. ---

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!” (17).

• Reverend Parris

• Abigail Willliams

• Mary Warren

• Goody Ann Putnam

Who said...

“I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire and bloody damnation”

• Abigail Williams

• John Proctor

• Reverend John Hale

• Thomas Putnam

Who said...

“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”

• Ann Putnam

• Rebecca Nurse

• Mary Warren

• Abigail Williams

Who says...

“He had no right to sell it. It stands clear in my grandfather’s will that all the land between the river and—”

• Thomas Putnam

• John Proctor

• Reverend Parris

• Abigail Williams

Who said...

“Abby, we’ve got to tell. Witchery’s a hangin’ error, a hangin’ like they done in Boston two year ago! We must tell the truth, Abby!” (20).

• Abigail Williams

• Rebecca Nurse

• Mary Warren

• Ann Putnam