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The Crucible Dialogue Essay
Judge: If you don’t confess to being a witch then you will get hanged.
Proctor: I will confess, and let it be known on the walls that i am a witch so I can live free with my wife Elizabeth.
Judge: Okay you can live , but you need to name out anymore witches that you know, if not you will be sent to jail, also if we find that it isn’t true you will be sentenced to jail as well.
Proctor: I will not name any names.
Judge: Now are you sure this is all true? If you don’t name any names it seems a little suspicious that you really don’t know anymore witches.
Narrator: “Proctor seems to become nervous but still will confess to to being a witch, but he may not confess right away or that easy.”
Proctor: Yes sir, this is all true, if i am allowing you to put it up on the
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Proctor: Every time i walk past them they seem to be saying a lot of weird words that i can’t really seem to put together, I was thinking it sounded something like a spell maybe? They say those words into some sort of a circle form.
Judge: Who’s them?
Proctor: I can’t name.
Judge: If you do not name anymore witches I am going to have to hang you.
Proctor: Okay I will name the witches, I believe that the other witches may be Tituba, Betty Parris, and Reverend Parris.
Judge: Why do you suspect them? Are those the ones who were saying those weird words as they were sitting in some sort of a circle you say?
Proctor: Yes sir they are. As a matter of fact I have an eye witness.
Judge: Now why didn’t you bring up that you had an eye witness earlier?
Proctor: Like i said I do not feel comfortable naming any names, but if it’ll help me get out of this trouble i will.
Judge: Who is that eye witness?
Proctor: It is my wife, Elizabeth Proctor.
Judge: If you can get your wife Elizabeth Proctor to confess to that then you are free to go.
Proctor: My wife is sitting in the audience if I could bring her up here to confess I

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