Crucible Act IV Context
Penitence
I have confessed myself! Is there no good ______ but it be public? God does not need my name nailed upon the church! God sees my name; God knows how black my sins are! It is enough!
excommunication
It cannot be forgot, sir, that when I summoned the congregation for John Proctor's ______ there were hardly thirty people come to hear it. That speak a discontent, I think, and
Gibbet
Let Rebecca stand upon the ______and send up some righteous prayer, and I fear she'll wake a vengeance on
Bridegroom
Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came into this village like a ______ 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
Empowered
Mr. Hale, as God have not ______ me like Joshua to stop this sun from rising, so I cannot withhold from them the perfection of their punishment.
Spite
______ only keeps me silent. It is hard to give a lie to dogs. Pause, for the first time he turns directly to her. I would have your forgiveness, Elizabeth,
Sibilance
A sound - the sibilance of dragging feet on stone. They turn. A pause. Herrick enters with John Proctor. His wrists are chained. He is another man, bearded, filthy, his eyes misty as though webs had overgrown them.
Cleave
Beware, Goody Proctor - ______ to no faith when faith brings blood. It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice.
Conciliatory
Danforth, ______ : You misunderstand, sir; I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just.
Adamant
Danforth, to Herrick: Is he yet ______ ? Has he struck at you again?
Utmost
Danforth: I shall do my ______. Which of them do you have hope for?
Beguile
Danforth: Now hear me, and ______ yourselves no more. I will not receive a single plea for pardon or postponement.
Indictment
Elizabeth, quietly, factually: He were not hanged. He would not answer aye or nay to his ______ ; for if he denied the charge they'd hang him surely, and auction out his property. So he stand mute, and died Christian under the law. And so his sons will have his farm. It is the law, for he could not be condemned a wizard without he answer the indictment, aye or nay.
Disputation
Goody Proctor, you are not summoned here for ______. Be there no wifely tenderness within you?
Belie
Hale: Why, it is all simple. I come to do the Devil's work. I come to counsel Christians they should ______ themselves. His sarcasm collapses.
Embodiment
He reaches out his hand as though toward an ______ not quite real, and as he touches her, a strange soft sound, half laughter, half amazement, comes from his throat.
Gaunt
He turns, as do Hathorne and Danforth, hearing someone coming up the corridor. Danforth raises his head as Parris enters. He is ______, frightened, and sweating in his greatcoat.
Beguile
Proctor: ______ me not! I blacken all of them when this is nailed to the church the very day they hang for silence!
Agape
Parris: Excellency, I think they be aboard a ship. Danforth stands ______. My daughter tells me how she heard them speaking of ships last week,
Floundering
Postponement now speaks a ______ on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now.
Reprieve
Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; ______ or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now.
Flailing
Proctor, pauses, then with a ______ of hope: Giles wife? Have she confessed?
Faltering
Proctor, with the faintest ______: Why, no, sir.