I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 1. Abigail expresses her deep and obsessive love for Proctor and her hatred of Salem and the "lying lessons" she was taught by the Puritans. The metaphor "took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart" refers to Abigail’s sexual awakening with the married Proctor and her discovery of the hypocricy of Salem culture. Desperate to rekindle their affair, she pleads with her reluctant ex-lover to not "tear the light out of my eyes." That "light" is a metaphor for the love and lust they shared.