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Focussed on the Comparative essay (for 'The Crucible' and 'The Dressmaker' VCE English), seriously I've more quotes than anyone could need; categorised by each of their themes and messages.
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Themes Crucible Dressmaker
Abuse of 1. Insularity 1. 1. S
power 2. Fear About Salem: About Dungatar:
- ‘small windowed, dark houses.’
- ‘a barbaric frontier inhabited by a sect of fanatics.’ - ‘dark blot, edge of flatness.’
3.
Conservatism - ‘not have permitted anyone to read.’ - ‘The Hill casts a shadow over the town.’
and social - ‘autocracy by consent.’ - ‘Tilly had grown into a woman while
hierarchy/ - Hale carrying books: ‘they are weighted with authority.’
- ‘Martha bewitch them with her books.’ Giles Sergant Farat had aged.’
Theocracy and
autocracy Gossip: - ‘mice from between the towels in the
- ‘suspicions which were to feed the coming madness.’ linen press and spiders from their lace
- ‘whole countries talking witchcraft!’
- ‘a wild thing may say wild things.’ Abigail
homes under light shades.’
- ‘there are wheels within wheels, and fires within fires.’ Mrs - ‘choked with cumbungi weeds.’
putnam Football
- ‘the world is gone daft to this nonsense.’ Proctor
Church:
- ‘dissected by a thin gravel road that ran
- ‘is every defence an attack on the court?’ Hale to the football.’
- ‘a person is either with this court or he must be counted - ‘the green eye of the oval looked back
against it.’ Danforth
- ‘the law based upon the Bible.’ Danforth
up at Tilly, the cars around its edge like
lashes.’
2. -
- ‘the edge of the wilderness was close by.’
- ‘the witchcraft was a perverse manifestation of this panic.’
- ‘one could cry witch against one’s neighbour.’
- ‘your punishment will come in its time.’
2.
- ‘the world is gone daft to this nonsense.’ Proctor 3.
- ‘the devil’s loose in salem and we must discover where he’s Gingham (act 1)
hiding.’ Proctor
- ‘no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.’ Hale
- ‘varying in quality, can be woven into a
- ‘there is a prodigious fear of the court in this country.’ Hale range patterns. A durable if treated
- ‘they fear to keep in salem anymore.’ Parris in Act 4 appropriately.’
- ‘Barney who was not quite finished.’
3.
About parris
Tilly
- ‘in history he cut a villainous path.’ - ‘she seemed strong, but damaged.’
- ‘thankful for being permitted to walk straight, mouths - ‘wondered about what she had left
bidden shut.’
- ‘Bend these stiff necked people to me.’ Parris
behind her, and what dhe had returned
- I do not wish to be put out like the cat whenever some to.’
majority feels the whim.’ Parris
Salem
- ‘strict and sombre way of life.’
- ‘the old disciplines were beginning to rankle.’
- ‘patriarchal snobbery.’
- ‘they held in their steady hands the candle that would light
the world.’
- ‘this belief has helped and hurt us.’
- ‘autocracy by consent.’
- ‘hard handed justice; the perfect instruments for the
conquest of this space so antagonistic to man.’
- Theocracy; ‘grounded on the ideas of exclusion and
prohibition.’
- ‘hurtful, vengeful spirits layin’ hands on these children.’
- ‘the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian
women.’ Abigail
- ‘no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.’ Hale
Witchcraft
- ‘Scores could be settled on a plane of heavenly combat
between Lucifer and the Lord.’
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