Spare me! You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’. Learn charity, woman. I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart. I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 2. John Proctor feels that he is being constantly judged and questioned by his wife Elizabeth over his affair with Abigail. She struggles with forgiving and trusting him. He desperately wants forgiveness and uses personification to describe her continuing coldness towards him – "an everlasting funeral marches round your heart." Whenever he arrives home, he feels like he is stepping into a courtroom and being judged for lies. This is foreshadowing of John’s court appearance in Act 3.