#4: A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth!…God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!
Techniques: Repetition, contrast, metaphorical imagery.#3: We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant’s vengeance! I’ll not give my wife to vengeance! Techniques: Antanaclasis, truncated sentence.Characters: Proctor (Speaker), Herrick, Elizabeth, Hale.#2: I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem-vengeance is walking Salem. Techniques: Repetition, conduplicatio, symbolism.Rebecca Nurse’s noble character will continue to live on, and enchant future audiences.#1: There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires! Her moral superiority makes her an excellent role model for anyone. It gives the audience a sense of disbelief, how could a good-natured woman, such as she, be a witch? Due to morals being so strong, she refuses to confess to witchcraft, and is hanged along with John Proctor.įrom Rebecca Nurse’s initial scene, where she comforts the Parris family about Betty’s condition, to her innocent body being hanged in Act 4, she never let her morals be compromised. The fact that she was charged, plants doubt in the heads of the rest of the characters. She is, without a doubt, the most incorruptible people in the town. The conviction of Rebecca Nurse is so crucial to the plot of the play, because it shows how the people of Salem have lost all sense.
Unfortunately, despite all of these attributes do not stop her from being accused as a witch. In Act 1, she is able to calm Proctor by just saying, “Pray, John, be calm.” Her honesty is another quality that makes her so notable she is not hesitant to tell Reverend Parris that he drives the church-goers in the community away (Act 1).
She also has a power about her that eases the characters throughout the play, for an example John Proctor.
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