Trace the development of dramatic tension in this scene from the apparently innocuous conversation around the meal table to the closing tableau of the chair lifting episode which concludes the act This scene is the last in act one and is an important scene for building up drama and tension between the characters. Even the positioning of the scene helps the drama‚ by putting it at the end of act 1‚ where in the theatre there would be an interval‚ it leaves the audience with a cliff
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The play‚ The Crucible’‚ illustrates how people react to mass hysteria created by a person or group of people‚ as people did during the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s and the Salem witch hunts of 1962. Many Americans were wrongly accused of being Communist sympathizers. The activities of the House of Un-American Activities Committee began to be linked with the witchcraft trials that had taken place in the town of Salem. This provided Miller with the catalyst to write The Crucible’. Without the knowledge
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English 10‚ essay The Crucible‚ option 2 In “The Crucible”‚ Arthur Miller uses dramatic irony to create anxiety‚ frustration and to demonstrate the tension between the people about the lies of witchcraft in Salem. I. The author creates tension in the story by using Abigail who accuses innocent people of witchery. 1.) Abigail wants Elizabeth to get hanged so she can be back with John again. 2.) Abigail turns herself against Mary Warren after she confessed in court. II. The author creates
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Arthur Miller‚ a great playwright of his time‚ wrote The Crucible. The Crucible‚ a 1953 play‚ was written at the time of the Red Scare in America. The author was accused of being a communist during this period of time and wrote the play to show how out of proportion the government was while the Red Scare was commencing. Miller used various forms of satire to show his feeling towards this ordeal in the play. The forms of satire were used to compare the Salem Witch Trials to the Red Scare. His drama
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There are some things worth dying for‚ and in The Crucible that is just what John Proctor did. Proctor’s wife was sent to prison because his mistress Abigail convicted his wife of witchcraft. The Crucible is based in Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1692 through 1693 during the Salem Witch Trials. This was a very strict and troubled time for not only women‚ but men also. People had to beware of who they crossed‚ because anyone would throw them under the bus. Today‚ we face some of the same situations they
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himself. The play is set in spring 1912 in the dining room of the Birlings house in Brumley‚ just before the First World War. It was first performed 1 October 1946 to an audience who had just lived through the Second World War. Priestley uses dramatic tension through the play to make it interesting and full of suspense for his audience. Mrs Birling’s interrogation begins half way through Act Two. So far in the play Inspector Goole entered the Birling Household in Act one whilst they were having a
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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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When the Crucible was set in 1692‚ many actions that people did and the words they said lead to conflict between them which builds throughout the scene to a dramatic point which then leads to tension during the play between the characters and then leads to tension in the audience. The main characters that illustrate tension are John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor (husband and wife) as they are both in an awkward position as John’s actions in the past had affected Elizabeth and still did in this moment
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Abigail could no longer take it; two months have gone by without her John. After the arrest of John Proctor‚ Abigail was left with nothing. He was the only reason she was doing all this for‚ but now soon he would be hanged. Reverend Hale already suspected of her; she would be next. In order to save herself she has to leave Salem‚ but she couldn’t go alone‚ Mercy Lewis had to go with her. Abigail convinced Mercy Lewis that if she didn’t go she would soon be arrested and hanged. Between the two of
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Priestley create dramatic tension at the end of act two? Events throughout the Act lead to the dramatic tension at the end of act two such as the gradual build up towards the shock of Eric as the father of Eva’s unborn child; Mrs Birling’s swift change form outright confidence to devastation at the end of act two and Eric’s entrance just as Mrs Birling has claimed that the father of Eva’s unborn child should take sole responsibility for the suicide. Priestley creates this dramatic tension at the end
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