In the art of theatre‚ there are many times in which characters on stage are oblivious to the truth that the audience knows. These instances of dramatic irony can have a range of effects from tension to laugh out loud comedy. In his play The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde uses dramatic irony to create humor by creating problems for characters to solve‚ promoting reactions from characters‚ and tying these problem and reactions into the resolution. In The Importance of Being Earnest
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able of capturing the meaning of Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible. Set in Salem‚ Massachusetts during the witch trials‚ Miller depicts the town and the strong puritan values vested in its people. When accusations of witchcraft run ravage through the streets‚ such puritan purity is in question. The Crucible is a fitting title for Arthur Miller’s play.The English noun crucible symbolizes Salem‚ the trials and the resulting changes that occur. To start‚ a crucible being defined as a vessel that can
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Looking again at the end of act two‚ how does Priestley make the ending scene dramatically effective? At the end of act two‚ Priestley uses several techniques in order to make the scene dramatically effective. The carefully written script creates an atmosphere of suspense and tension. The techniques Priestly uses in the script are irony and the dismantling of the false sense of security amongst the characters and consequently the audience. Originally the characters feel secure because they feel
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In the book /The Crucible/ the author Arthur Miller portrays one of the main characters judge Danforth as a stern cold man of unfailing faith in his judicial powers. For not only did Miller establish Danforth as the man responsible for determining the fates of those accused‚ but Miller also establishes that it only takes a simple accu-sation for a person to be convicted of witch craft. Danforth is so confident in his power that he states‚ “A pure heart needs no lawyers” (Miller #). But is further
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Explore how Oscar Wilde Opens Act 2: Upon the opening of Act 2 in The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde sets out a rather peaceful looking scene‚ transporting his audience to Jack’s country estate in Hertfordshire. The act takes off in the Garden at the Manor House‚ described in the stage directions as ‘an old fashion one‚ full of roses’ with baskets and chairs set under a large yew tree. With the time of year being July‚ this all makes up for a somewhat simple Victorian summer setting
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In Ambrose Bierce’s “The Boarded Window”‚ the building of suspense and the use of a cliffhanger creates an uncomfortable mood for the reader. Bierce starts her short story having the narrator tell a tale about a man‚ Murlock‚ who lives in a cabin deep in the woods with his wife. Murlock’s wife soon gets very ill and dies. Bierce starts the suspense by having Murlock show little to no emotion when his spouse passes. Murlock didn’t grieve for his wife at the time of her death because despite the fact
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In order to create a hypothetical utopian society‚ Aldous Huxley projects the future progression of technology and bases the direction of his novel Brave New World on those predictions. He shows how social standards and beliefs can be changed‚ and how a few upgrades over a few decades can cause society to be nearly unrecognizable‚ vastly dissimilar‚ and frankly quite strange from an outside perspective. Huxley predicts that technological advances can lead to views on birth‚ sex‚ and relationships
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and to put into perspective of what if that actually happened. Creating suspense is difficult because you need to know the correct timing to add the twist into the topic. Some ways W.F. Harvey created suspense in “August Heat” was by foreshadowing‚ how he viewed things‚ and revealing the situation. W.F. Harvey had no hesitation by introducing the story with foreshadowing. “Penistone Road‚ Clapham‚ 20th August
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they were taught this within their households. However‚ they have no particular reasons of their own for this hatred‚ and because they were raised with this belief‚ it causes their behavior to even act more immaturely and have their actions riskier‚ as “what motivates one teenager to take
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ruthless‚ they are in some ways understandable. Miller slips in an interesting detail about Abigail’s childhood that gives us a clue as to where her mercilessness might stem from. When she was younger‚ Abigail witnessed both of her parents murder. She tells the other girls‚ "I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ head on the pillow next to mine" (I.119). It’s no surprise that a person exposed to such brutality at a young age might eventually act brutally herself. Her ruthless‚ manipulative tactics
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