What is the symbolic significance of Warings? Warings is the house that Mr Hooper currently owns in the book I’m the King of the Castle. Warings is a very symbolic place and represents many different things. Some of these include: Hooper’s power‚ Social Class and Isolation‚ all of these I will be mentioning. Warings represents Isolation a great deal in the book. This becomes apparent very early on in the book as it is described as "some distance from any other house." This shows the reader prematurely
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Arthur Miller’s historical play‚ “The Crucible” follows the story of the Salem witch trials. One of the main conflicts of the play was John Proctor’s affair with Abigail Williams‚ an affair which set off the witch trials. While Abigail has many obvious flaws and may be defended‚ her role and the severity of her actions cannot be overlooked. Abigail may not deserve the entirety of the blame‚ she most certainly deserves the consequences of her actions. Abigail fell in love with John during their
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Explore the ways in which Miller makes this a powerful and disturbing moment in the play. Miller makes this meeting between Alfieri and Eddie powerful and disturbing in many ways‚ mainly with the many climaxes when we feel Eddie is going to explode with anger and frustration but Alfieri calms him down with his appeasing words. This extract is a very gripping part of the play because it helps us understand both characters in different lights. The quotation‚ ‘Eddie‚ I want you to listen to me‚’
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Explain How Arthur Miller Uses Act Three As A Dramatic Device To Expose The Rivalries Which Exist In Salem. In 1952‚ Arthur Miller wrote a play entitled‚ ‘The Crucible’. The play is centred on the witch trials that actually took place in Salem‚ Massachusetts during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote about the event as an allegory for McCarthyism which occurred in the United States in the 1950s. McCarthyism was a time of great anti-communist suspicion in the late 1940s and 1950s. The key connections
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How does Miller build tension in Act 1 in A View from the Bridge? The play A View from the Bridge was written by American playwright Arthur Miler in the early 1950’s. The play is set in Red Hook‚ Brooklyn. This is where the ports are near the Brooklyn Bridge that is the gateway to Manhattan. The play is centred on an Italian-American longshoreman– Eddie Carbone. Eddie lives with his wife Beatrice and his niece Catherine who he has developed improper feelings for‚ however his feelings are repressed
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Fear of the superstition of witchery drove the town of Salem into mayhem causing them to hang many of their own‚ whom they feared were witches. This is evident when the people of Salem fear the "workings of the devil" and become suspicious that anything out of the ordinary is witchery led by the devil . Imaginations flared as stories were told of Betty (Parris’s niece) flying‚ even though she was only pretending to be witched. Because of the superstition of witchcraft many people became hysterical
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Arthur Miller uses a number of devices in order to dramatise the conflict between John and Elizabeth. The device that is most apart to the audience is the staging. Miller very effectively uses this to physically show that there is a deep rift running through their relationship‚ and home. The large and detailed opening stage direction shows that he has put a lot of thought into how he wanted to portray his feelings. The opening directions describe the house as “low‚ dark... and empty”. This is symbolic
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always offering Willy escape. My chosen episode is Willy’s final visit to Charley. Within this scene Miller not only brings home Willy’s failure as a salesman and father‚ but the devastating effect of capitalism on the common man. The comparison between Charley and Willy makes the play’s key moments sting even more with the realisation of their unfairness and inevitability. Within this scene Miller plays with the parallels between the two men‚ brutally juxtaposing them by playing Willy’s desperate
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How does Arthur Miller create drama and tension in Act 1 of ‘The Crucible’? The Crucible is a play‚ which explores the witch- hunting hysteria that happened in Salem 1692. Miller uses this “organized mass-hysteria”[1] to comment on his own similar experience during the 1950s. Through “The Crucible”‚ Miller is able to draw an analogy between the hysteria of the Salem witch-trails and its modern parallel of the anti communist ‘witch-hunts’ which occurred due to the HUAC-House of un-American Committee
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How does Miller present the character of Gellburg in the opening 3 pages of the play? AO1- 10 AO2- 10 AO4- 5 Kristallnacht‚ 1938- Nazi’s in Germany smash the windows of Jewish shops and set alight synagogues following the assassination of a German diplomat‚ Ernst Vom Rath. At the same time a Jewish mother and wife living in Brooklyn loses her ability to walk. I believe Arthur Miller uses the play to examine how situations‚ exploitation and her paralysed state to be a reflection of each other
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