The setting of the play is an important ‘force of theatre’. Miller’s use of stagecraft plays a major role in expressing the tension, and distraught emotion throughout the drama. The setting of each act is spare and sombre, yet effectively portrays the Puritan lifestyle and contributes to the anxiety of the plot.

Act One is set in a small upstairs bedroom, in the home of Reverend Parris. Like the room, the only window is small and barred, symbolising no escape from the future events, and adding to the over crowded, claustrophobic feeling, of a

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