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Examples Of Monologue In The Crucible

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[ looking up at the moon through the jail cell window ] I have been stripped of all my senses [ pause ]. I now know what true isolation feels like, this sense of loneliness. This place of darkness but for the moonlight seeping through the bars. Elizabeth who are you? [ pause ] Sitting here in this jail cell with the child I will soon bear. I have nothing left. NOTHING [ slam desk ] The name Proctor comes with such heavyweight accompanied with the pressure of maintaining reputation [pause ], the reputation that I have now lost. The town has gone daft. It has now turned a time to express suppressed resentment and act on long-standing grudges. What will be left of the town I have left for my sons to grow up in, with nothing but a memory of us. A town where you now belong to God or the devil. I will not confess to witchcraft. What has become of Salem? People to believe that their neighbors are …show more content…

I only meant to keep the defamation on John’s name. He chose to go to the court, and I will take no part his decisions. In John's attempts to break the cycle of accusations, he admitted to the affair with Abigail only to be trumped by the accusation of witchcraft. A trial system that now thrives on accusations. He was trying to protect me. Will I be to blame? No, I have faith in God that everything would be righted. I am a good woman. I have had to repeat my ten commandments more than once. I have proven myself. All my actions have been in regards to God. I am loyal to God. Loyal [ pause ] The word we all once were. Had my discontention pushed John to commit adultery. I was naïve and still wanted to believe my life was as clean as God's fingers. My husband is a good and righteous man. He is never drunk as some are, or wasting' his time at the shovelboard, but always his work. I cannot bear to let go the loyalty I have for my husband (Miller, 1953). He will not receive judgement from me for there is no greater judge than that of

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