Whatever you will do, it is a good man does it. I have read my own heart this three month, John. I have sins of my own to count. It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery…I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, no honest love could come to me! Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I should say my love. It were a cold house I kept!
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 4. As John Proctor agonizes over whether to make falsely confess to witchcraft to save his life, Elizabeth makes her own confession. Describing him as a good man, she admits to being partly to blame for his affair with Abigail by being a cold wife who didn’t know how to love. She uses personification when she describes how "suspicion kissed" her husband when she did. By accepting her owns faults and his goodness, she is finally forgiving John for his infidelity. Elizabeth also uses a metaphor when she decribes how she "read my own heart" like you read a book.