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emmawytko
28.05.2020 • 
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Read this passage from Act 4, Part 3, of The Crucible.

HALE: I beg you, woman, prevail upon your husband to confess. Let him give his lie. Quail not before God’s judgment in this, for it may well be God a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride. Will you plead with him? I cannot think he will listen to another.

ELIZABETH (quietly): I think that be the Devil’s argument.

HALE (with a climactic desperation): Woman, before the laws of God we are as swine! We cannot read His will!

ELIZABETH: I cannot dispute with you, sir; I lack learning for it.

DANFORTH (going to her): …. Be there no wifely tenderness within you? …. (She is silent.) Take her out. It profit nothing she should speak to him!

ELIZABETH (quietly): Let me speak with him, Excellency.

PARRIS (with hope): You’ll strive with him? (She hesitates.)

DANFORTH: Will you plead for his confession or will you not?

ELIZABETH: I promise nothing. Let me speak with him.

Which answer best characterizes Elizabeth in this passage?

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