The Crucible: movie monologues to shadow
27 monologues from The Crucible. Original audio, one line at a time, with a pause to say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- B29 lines
Reverend Parris, I have laid seven babies un-baptized in the earth.
Ann Putnam's AccusationThe Crucible · 2014She moves from buried babies to Tituba's magic, turning private grief into a public charge. - B216 lines
Look you.
Abigail's ThreatThe Crucible · 2014Five short beats move from a shared story to an open threat, each one louder than the last. - B29 lines
I look for John Proctor
Abigail's OutburstThe Crucible · 2014She builds from a single claim to a full accusation, letting every sentence carry more heat. - C14 lines
Where is my wood?
Parris Demands FirewoodThe Crucible · 2014A single question builds into self-pity, so a demand for wood sounds like persecution. - C14 lines
I want a mark of confidence, is all!
Parris Claims His RankThe Crucible · 2014He turns fear of dismissal into a claim that his office is above contradiction. - B25 lines
From out my forest by the riverside.
Putnam Claims the LandThe Crucible · 2014Five short beats push from where the timber came to who owns the ground, each louder than the last. - B24 lines
No, no. Now let me instruct you.
Hale Sets His TermsThe Crucible · 2014He rejects superstition, insists on evidence, then locks them into accepting a clean result. - B25 lines
Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated.
Hale's Exorcism SpeechThe Crucible · 2014The list builds an unseen cosmos, then lands on a vow to crush the Devil. - B25 lines
Does someone afflict you, child?
Hale Questions the ChildThe Crucible · 2014He lowers his voice and names birds and beasts, drawing the child toward confession. - B14 lines
She sends her spirit on me in church;
Abigail's AccusationThe Crucible · 2014Four short clauses pile up spirit, prayer and blood until the charge sounds rehearsed. - B18 lines
I want to open myself!
Tituba's ConfessionThe Crucible · 2014Eight short lines turn confession into prayer, brightening as she lists what she did. - B211 lines
Thou shalt not kill.
Reciting the CommandmentsThe Crucible · 2014He recites the laws one by one, and the very one he broke is the one he misses. - B25 lines
Why do you never wonder if Parris be Is the accuser always holy now?
Proctor's OutburstThe Crucible · 2014He moves from question to charge to verdict in one breath, naming revenge as the real law. - B29 lines
It is a providence,
Proctor's SpeechThe Crucible · 2014He turns ruin into providence and cold wind, building pressure through short, breaking lines. - B25 lines
I cannot.
Mary's BreakdownThe Crucible · 2014The same refusal is repeated five times, growing louder until she breaks. - B24 lines
I never had no wife that be so taken with and I thought to find the cause of it, d’y’see,
Corey on His WifeThe Crucible · 2014He slides from explaining his wife to admitting he cut off all goodwill with her. - B25 lines
I tell you straight, Mister - I have seen marvels in this court.
Proctor on What He Has SeenThe Crucible · 2014He moves from plain speech to what he has witnessed, slowly exposing the whole trial. - B25 lines
I have the best, sir -
Corey on His Own CasesThe Crucible · 2014He turns a lifetime of lawsuits into proof that he knows his rights. - B25 lines
No, old man, you have not hurt these people if But you must understand,
Danforth on the AgeThe Crucible · 2014He builds the trial into a sunrise that separates light from dusk. - B24 lines
She claims as well that none of you have Now, children, this is a court of law.
Danforth on Law and BibleThe Crucible · 2014He stacks law, Bible and death penalty into one solemn warning. - B29 lines
I wish you had some evil in you that you might
Proctor's ConfessionThe Crucible · 2014He moves from a truth about reputation to his own guilt, giving himself away line by line. - B26 lines
I have seen my blood running out!
Abigail's OutburstThe Crucible · 2014She casts herself as the wounded one, and the short lines keep tightening the pressure. - B24 lines
A fire, a fire is burning!
Proctor's courtroom outburstThe Crucible · 2014It builds from fire to the devil's face and drags the judges into the same flames. - B213 lines
Now hear me, and beguile yourselves no more.
Danforth refuses to postponeThe Crucible · 2014It seizes the floor, then builds a wall of law without yielding an inch. - B24 lines
I come to do the Devil's work.
Hale's confessionThe Crucible · 2014A few short lines turn him into the devil's helper and end with blood on his head. - C17 lines
I came into this village
Hale's confession speechThe Crucible · 2014He turns his own failure into a warning, building regret line by line. - B27 lines
He would not answer aye or nay to his indictment;
The tale of Giles CoreyThe Crucible · 2014She lays out the law clause by clause, and the calm makes the death land harder.