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- She thins highly of herself in Act 2 - either arrogant or self confident
- She is good at manipulating John
- She appears very cold until her conversation with John in Act 4.
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- 'Will you tell him?' traps John into telling the truth and builds tension as audience are on edge to find out his response. It is spoken [restraining a call] which shows Elizabeth wanted Hale to hear and depicts her as very manipulative as she means it in a rhetorical way.
- 'I think I must go with them, John' shows that she is the controlling and mature one in the relationship as she clams him like a child. It shocks the modern day audience that she goes so passively in this hopelss situation.
- In Act 4 we see a different side to Elizabeth. 'I cannot judge you John, John, I cannot!' is ironic becuase she always has judged him. It shows now she judges herself more harshly and possibly now blames herself for Proctors death. She says it in '[terror]' which shows she is worried about giving the wrong advice and '[weeping]' which shows she DOES have strong emotions and she DOES value John! The repetition of 'I' shows she belives someone will judge John, but not her - God.
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- Page 42 - 'Elizabeth is heard softly singing to the children'
- Page 45 - 'John you are not open with me!'
- Page 55 - 'Adultery, John'
- Page 60 - 'I never kept no poppets, not since I was a girl'
- Page 91 - 'My husband - is a goody man sir'
- Page 105 - 'Goody Proctor... I hope you are hearty?'
- Page 109 - 'I am not your judge, I cannot be'
- Page 110 - 'suspision kissed you when I did'
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- We find out in Act 4 that she believes she was a bad wife and she 'encouraged lechery' which makes the audience feel sympathetic towards her as they find out she does have emotions.
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