If Elizabeth Proctor were to deliver a monologue, I think that she would talk either about her ambivalence toward her husband in Act II or about her own guilt in Act IV. In Act II, Elizabeth seems to want to move beyond her distrust of her husband John, distrust that was formed as a result of his extramarital affair with Abigail Williams. She is eager to please him, as we see with the stew she's...
If Elizabeth Proctor were to deliver a monologue, I think that she would talk either about her ambivalence toward her husband in Act II or about her own guilt in Act IV. In Act II, Elizabeth seems to want to move beyond her distrust of her husband John, distrust that was formed as a result of his extramarital affair with Abigail Williams. She is eager to please him, as we see with the stew she's carefully prepared, but she is also struggling to forgive him; when he kisses her, she merely "receives it," discouraging him a great deal. Elizabeth seems to feel emotionally torn, and so this would likely appear in such a monologue.
Further, in Act IV, Elizabeth admits to John that she feels some guilt, some responsibility for the affair he had. She says, "I have read my heart this three month, John. I have sins of my own to count. It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery." One can imagine Elizabeth, in her prison cell, reflecting on her own role in John's affair, and so this information would likely come up in a monologue as well.
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