Abigail and the girls, Act III Abigail, looking about in the air, clasping her arms about her as though cold: I - I know not. A wind, a cold wind, has come... Mercy Lewis, shivering: Your Honor, I freeze! ... Susanna Walcott: I freeze, I freeze!
Parris to Putnams, Proctor and Giles in Act I "There is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell is burning!"
Parris to Proctor in Act I: "“I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm...”
Proctor to the court about the potential of "hidden" poppets in his house in Act III "There might also be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it"
Abigail to Danforth and Mary Warren and all in Act III Danforth: She spoke nothing of lechery, and this man has lied. Hale: I believe him! Pointing at Abigail: This girl has always struck me false! She has - Abigail, with a weird, wild, chilling cry, screams up to the ceiling. Abigail: You will not! Begone! Begone, I say! Danforth: What is it, child?.... Abigail: Why - ? She gulps. Why do you come, yellow bird?
Hale to Proctor in Act II In the book of record that Mr. Parris keeps, I note that you are rarely in the church on Sabbath Day.
Danforth to Mary Warren in Act III "You will confess or you will hang!"
Act III Martha Corey: I am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is. Hathorne: How do you know then that you are not a witch? Martha Corey: If I were I would know it.
Giles to Hale about Martha's books in Act I Giles: Mr. Hale, I have always wanted to ask a learned man - what signifies the readin’ of strange books? Hale: What books? Giles: I cannot tell; she hides them, Hale; Who does this? Giles: Martha, my wife. I have waked at night many a time and found her in a comer, readin’ of a book. Now what do you make of that? Hale: Why, that’s not necessarily - Giles: It discomfits me! Last night - mark this - I tried and tried and could not say my prayers. And then she close her book and walks out of the house, and suddenly - mark this - I could pray again!
Post Hoc
Ad Hominem
Non Sequitur
Slippery Slope
Red Herring
Hasty Generalization
Circular Reasoning
False Dilemma or Either/Or
Bandwagon
