Show how the playwright creates tension and how this increases your appreciation of any aspect of the play. Arthur Miller’s modern tragedy Death of a Salesman is rife with tension regarding the protagonist‚ Willy Loman‚ a salesman eluded and deluded by the American Dream. The play follows Miller’s reworking of the Aristotelian hero in the final twenty-four hours of his life. Willy’s obsession with his Dream and all associated with it – personal attractiveness‚ business success and family success
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“... gave me the impression of someone crouching to way lay me.” Not knowing what it is‚ it builds tension rapidly as he advances towards it. Here the author instigates an anti-climax releasing us slightly from the tension. The author relieves the reader by revealing that it is only a statue. Statues in the dark are classic elements to a ghost story. Often in human form they make you feel as though you are being
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Henrik Ibsen’s "A Doll’s House" shows how two women who went to school together many years previous have led totally different lives. Nora is married‚ has three children and everything she wants or needs. Her husband Torvald treats her like a doll‚ indulging her every whim and calling her pet names‚ such as "singing lark"‚ "little squirrel" and "little spendthrift". He pats her on the head much as one would a small child. Nora is sensible and completely unaware of her own worth until the last act
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In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ dramatic irony is used to garner sympathy and antipathy from the audience‚ which further develops the characters‚ conflict‚ and theme of the story. This is seen when the ghost of Hamlet Sr. tells Hamlet Jr. that “the serpent that did sting [his] father’s life/Now wears his [father’s] crown.” (I.v.39-40). This creates dramatic irony because the audience knows that Claudius killed Hamlet Sr. while the majority of the characters still believe that Hamlet Sr. was bitten by a
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River in St. Petersburg‚ Missouri. In the novel‚ there are two points in which the tension is the highest. One happens to be when Huck is trying to escape his drunken father in the log cabin where he has him trapped. Another high tension part is when Sherburn gets on his roof protesting with a gun while an angry mob outside of his house is seemingly ready to lynch him. A good example of a part that has low tension is when
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collide with each other‚ creating conflicts that are a constant part of today’s culture. Although it gives examples of many different races conflicting‚ it appears that the main focus is between blacks and whites. Crash reinforces the idea of racial tension between blacks and whites‚ which influences the viewer to believe that conflict between races is continuously occurring. However‚ it then breaks down the barriers of these stereotypical relationships to show that blacks and whites can exist in harmony
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Dramatic Interpretation Mick Harte Was Here Umm‚ Just let me say‚ right off the bat‚ this isn’t the kind of book where you meet the main character and you get to like him real well and then he dies at the end‚ ’cause I hate those kinds of stories. See‚ I don’t want to make you cry. I just want to tell you about Mick. But I thought you should know right up front that‚ well he’s not here anymore. I just thought that it’d be fair to you. Intro: So‚ it was an accident. And I mean
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The Ancients versus Modern Playwrights: | Dryden in his essay‚ An Essay on Dramatic Poesy‚ vindicated the Moderns. The case for the ‘Ancients’ is presented by Crites. In the controversy Dryden takes no extreme position and is sensible enough to give the Ancients their respect. Through his wit and shrewd analysis‚ he removes the difficulty which had confused the issue. He makes us see the achievement of the Ancients and the gratitude of the Moderns to them. Thus‚ he presents the comparative merits
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Passage-based essay 2. The moment in which Elizabeth tells a lie in order to save her husband’s life‚ indicates dramatic irony. The playwright makes this happen when first John Proctor calls Abigail’s a whore and‚ in spite of the humiliation he felt‚ revealed his affair with her. As Danforth cannot believe the seventeen year-old girl is actually a “whore”‚ he asks Goody Proctor to come up to test the truth of this charge. Before she enters the court‚ John swears Elizabeth is an extremely honest
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used to always make me feel like I was little child that Is unable to do anything for herself. Torvald I am able to do many things for myself‚ for the children‚ the house and even you. Torvald when I left the house I barley had enough money to get through the first week. But with my hard work and commitment I was able to work as a house manager for two years. I made enough money to start buying tools to make little decorations which I showed to the lady and gentlemen I worked for and they paid me
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