You’ll tear it free – when you come to know that I will be your only wife, or no wife at all! She has an arrow in you yet, John Proctor, and you know it well!
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 2. Elizabeth Proctor uses allusion and metaphor when she tells her husband that Abigail still has a hold over his heart. The arrow is a reference to the Greek mythological love god Cupid’s arrow, shot at lovers to inspire love. Despite John’s infidelity Elizabeth still clearly loves him and gives him the choice of being with her or Abigail.