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The Crucible - Use Of Language

 


             Miller also uses characters such as Proctor to heighten the tension at the end of each act. Proctor being the main protagonist is involved in the most emotional and dramatic scenes uses heightened and poetic language to mark his most important speeches, giving them greater impact.
             Proctor: " and there's your first marvel you have made your magic now-.
             Abigail: " and now you bid me tear the light from my eyes-.
             Elizabeth Proctor: "It is a mouse no more she raises her chin up like the daughter of a prince-.
             At the end of Act 2, 3 and 4 Proctor is the one person who tries to show the truth to the people of Salem. Each cat ends with high emotional drama as Proctor struggles to be heard. There is a mass of emotive language used as Proctor condemns those who wont listen - Proctor: "God is dead!" - shows the extent of his anguish if he is prepared to condemn the foundations of the their entire society.
             Proctor: " I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face you know all you black hearts that this be fraud - God condemns our kind we will burn!".
             These speeches further increase Proctor's status as the hero of the play as well as increasing the anguish and tension built up by seeing the hero of the play systematically destroyed by the court.
             Proctor: "You are pulling down Heaven and raising up a whore.".
             "Damn the village. I confess to God- .
             Miller not only uses this type if emotive language to create tension but also exploits the use of questions within the play to create hysteria. Question in this play are used to accuse not to extract information. The questions cease to be innocent but become veiled threats - an everyday reminder that anyone can effectively have you hanged with one accusation. Questions become a devise to promote fear and imply guilt or evil; with this fact Miller can engineer the characters" reaction to certain questions to successful dramatic effect. .
             Danforth: "And do you know that near to four hundred are in the jails from Marblehead to Lynn, and upon my signature?".


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