Mood In The Crucible

Referring to works by at least 2 writers, compose the means by which writers establish mood.

To truly understand a literary work, it is important to identify the overall atmosphere and mood of the text. Mood, the emotional perspective of the reader in a piece of literature, is so critical to the understanding of any work because mood evokes a certain feeling from the reader that the author wants the reader to feel. Mood provides an example of what the author wants the reader to take away from the piece of literature that he or she wrote. The purpose of mood is evident in the author of 1984 George Orwell and the author of The Crucible Arthur Miller. While portraying different moods to the reader, through character’s thoughts and actions, both authors Orwell and Miller are able to capture the mood of the literary work.
Orwell and Miller are similar in their ability to suggest mood through
Through character’s thoughts, the authors were able to capture differing moods, while through character’s actions, the authors were able to capture similar moods. The distinction between which moods were conveyed and which were not is evident through the techniques used. Character’s thoughts use language to convey the mood, and language can have many different interpretations and meanings, which provides explanation of why the moods felt through the same technique were different. On the other hand, character’s actions use events to convey the mood which can be seen as a more direct technique, which also provides explanation of why the moods felt in the two works were similar. These examples of mood provide reasoning of why it is always important to consider not only what the mood itself is but how the mood is conveyed. Mood allows the work to become personal to the audience, which is a unique trait that few other literary devices are able to