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Nyibol Gatluak THE CRUCIBLE & THE DRESSMAKER QUOTES A must for SACS and exams The Crucible

● “I want the light of God; I want the sweet love of Jesus ● ‘’In the black of some terrible night, a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. ● ‘’Sweated like a stallion’’ ● ‘’I never knew what pretense Salem was’’ ● ‘’Either with this court or he must be counted against it, ● “We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.” ● bearing gifts of high religion; ● ‘I’ll clap a writ on you’ ● howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house.’ ● I am a graduate of Harvard College.’ ● whip you to your death, Tituba!’ ● ‘Your name, it is entirely white in the village, isn’t it?’ ● ‘it is as though I come into a court when I come into this house’ ● ‘My honesty is broke, Elizabeth, I am no good man’ ● A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.” ● ‘’Silly season’’ ● steady hands the candle that would light the world. ● ‘’In history he cut a villainous path He believed he was being persecuted wherever he went,’’

The Dressmaker

● “Sergeant Farrat saluted his neat reflection” ● “Dull forms of Dungatar” ● ‘’Small grey town” ● “The knot in the pit of Tily’s stomach hardened” ● “She seemed strong, but damaged” ● “the Main Street of Dungatar sang to the chug of farm trucks and solid British automobiles bearing smart pastoralist families” ● “Mothers can shop and gossip” ● “These are progressive times” ● ‘’He’s travelled, mixed with society, very worldly these days.’’ ● ‘’Unlike their former sergeant, didn’t join the football club or insist on free beer’’’ ● ‘’Purl believed it was essential to be attractive’’ ‘’ ● ‘’Everyone knows everything about everyone but no one ever tittle-tattles because then someone else’ll tell on them. ● ‘’It’s open slather on outcasts’’ ● ‘’[Molly needed to] employ stubborn resistance and subtle violence against this stronger woman who was determined to stay’’ ● ‘’The others were happy to let you die, I saved you. It’s me they’ll try to kill now’’

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● ‘’You compromise my very character’’ ● ‘’Never conceived that children were anything but thankful for being permitted to walk straight’’ ● ‘’A strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling. ● ‘’Thomas Putnam felt his own name and the honour of his family had been smirched by the village’’ ● ‘’They carried about an air of innate resistance, even for persecution’’ ● ‘’Long-held hatreds of neighbours could now be openly expressed, and vengeance taken, despite the Bible’s charitable injunctions’’ ● ‘’Until an hour before the devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven’’ ● ‘’The necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon - to wip men into a surender to a particular church or church-state’’ ● ‘’A holiday from work meant only that they must concentrate even more upon prayer’’ ● You are selected, Tituba, you are chosen to help us cleanse our village." ● ‘’Strict and sombre way of life’’ ● ‘’The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation’’ ● ‘’The balance has yet to be struck between order and freedom’’ ● ‘’There is a murdering witch among us’’

● ‘’illegitimate girl push her mad mother - loose woman and hag’’ ● ‘’Her face was lined with pain’’ ● ‘’All that’s needed is God’s forgiveness’’ ● ‘’She longed for a life without pain’’ - ‘’Sin, the cause of all illness’’● ‘’God is responsible for everything’’ ● ‘’As her husband ground to a stiff and shuffling old man, her injuries ceased’’ ● ‘’He checked his image in the mirror’’ ● ‘’Beula Harridene - starving, therefore vicious, malnourished and mad’’ ● ‘’Myrtle Dunnage you’re on ink-well duty’’ & ‘’dragged her from the room by her plait’’ ● ‘’Chinese burns & ‘’Charging bull so his head banged in her tummy’’ ● ‘’Dunnybums mums a slut’’ ● ‘’He was a man who touched women, leaned close to talk’’ ● ‘’Marigold had been just a shy, innocent little thing when Evan came to Dungatar. - Evan swept her off her feet.’’ ● ‘’Marigold tidied up after him’’ ● ‘’She was limp but he positioned her as he wanted her’’’ ● ‘’Tilly kept her eyes to the middle distance. She knew it was a mistake, it was too soon, too bold. A feverish nausea swamped her guilt, and she said to herself, it wasn’t my fault’’ -

Nyibol Gatluak

● ‘’There are wheels within this wheels in this village, and fires within fires!’’ - Ann Putnam ● ‘’A prodigious sign!” ● ‘’He was the kind of man - powerful of body, even-tempered, and not easily led’’ ● ‘’Her slave sense has warned her that, as always, trouble in this house eventually lands on her back’’ ● ‘’Mary Warren, breathless. She is seventeen, a subservient, naive, lonely girl’’ ● ‘’The systemic campaign against Rebecca and inferentially against Francis, is the land war he fought for his neighbours, one of whom was a Putnam’’ ● ‘’No man was ever blamed for so much’’ - Giles Corey ● ‘’It is a mouse no more. I forbid her go, and she raises up her chin like the daughter of a prince’’ - ‘’I am an official of the court’’ ● ‘’Where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel’’ ● ‘’There cannot be a woman closer yet to God than Martha’’ ● ‘’The Devil is alive in Salem, but we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!’’ ● ‘’Vengeance is walking Salem’’ ● The little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law’’

● ‘’She was used to it, used to forgetting and enjoying herself then suddenly remembering, suddenly feeling unworthy.’’ ● ‘’And the fornication that occurred in this town on Saturday night Sergeant Farrat - was vile and repulsive’’ ● ‘’European Couture’’ ● ‘’The women in town had striking new outfits, and every hemline was now in keeping with current European fashion.’’ ● ‘’Mona’s frock is inside out’’ ● ‘’The socialites disperse’’ ● ‘’You’ll have to marry her’’ - ‘’the way to solve everything’’ ● ‘’They’re grown airs, think they're classy, you’re not doing them any good’’ ● ‘’Everyone likes to have someone to hate’’ ● ‘’They’re all liars, sinners and hypocrites’’ ● ‘‘’The evil inside of me, I carry it with me’’ - ‘it’s like a black thing - a weight’’ ● ‘’They will never forgive me for that boy’s death or my mother’s mistakes… they never forgave her and she did nothing wrong’’ ● ‘’Everyone I touch is hurt or dead’’ ● ‘’He did not mention that she was a cursed woman who caused men to die by the sound of her cry’’ ● ‘’It was a black and shocking time and grief thickened the air’’

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● ‘’The jails are packed and hangin’s promised’’ ● ‘’The girls, sir, the girls are frauds’’ ● ‘’She is a lump of vanity, sir!’’ ● ‘’But it is a whore’s vengeance’’ ● ‘’I have run the doom of my good name’’ ● ‘’Private vengeance is working through this testimony! From the beginning this man has struck me true.’’ ● ‘’The girls begin whimpering exactly as she does’’ ● ‘’God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!’’ ● ‘’It is a fraud. I am not that man’’ ● ‘’Because it is my name!’’ ● ‘’God knows how black my sins are! It is enough!”’ ● ‘’You will prove its whiteness or you cannot live in a Christian country’’ - Danforth to Proctor ● ‘’Dancing like Heathen in the forest’ and ‘abominations are done in that forest’ ● ‘’They are all marvellous pretenders’’

● ‘’He spoke of love and hate and the power of both’’ ● ‘’Teddy McSwiney was, by the natural order of the town, an outcast who lived by the tip’’ ● ‘’Wasn’t everyone else in the town different, yet included?’’ ● ‘’Her mind raced with venom and hate for herself and the people of Dungatar’’ ● ‘‘’Murderers! Witches!’ ● ‘’Mother and daughter stayed behind their locked door cuddling their desolation and sorrow’’ ● ‘’He felt his mighty penis melt to a damp heavy mass’’ ● ‘’He died, he just died. Ormond didn’t understand, he blamed me and couldn’t forgive me’’ ● ‘’Pain will no longer be our curse, Molly,’ she said. It will be our revenge and our reason. I have made it my catalyst and my propeller’’ ● ‘’Beula’s eyes were bulging purple-red slits’’ ● ‘’He checked his comatose wife in her cot, then lay down and conjured lewd images of Una, but the only thing he felt was an uneasy numbness’’ ● ‘’She masturbated through her petticoats. The audience wriggled’’ ● ‘’Moulds of smoking, grey-black coal and rubble’’ ● ‘’A motley bunch in very effective Baroque costumes’’

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● ‘’Marigold had been just a shy, innocent little thing when Evan came to Dungatar. Her father was the shire president then, and when he died he left her a lot of money, so Evan swept her off her feet.’’ ● ‘’The green eye of the oval… the cars around its edge like lashes’’ The town of Dungatar is described to be almost having ‘watching eyes’ where people are quick to monitor the behaviours of others to check whether they are aligning with social norms and behaving morally. ● “To speak the truth can earn a bleeding nose” ● Tilly is described as ‘stirring away at her cauldron’...