How does Steinbeck create a sense of drama in this section of the novel? This section of the novel is about the fight between Curley and Lennie; it is dramatic because it is unfair on the both of them‚ Lennie because he didn’t do anything wrong and Curley because Lennie is a lot stronger. Steinbeck creates the drama by using things like imagery for example when he says “flopping like a fish”. The tension between the characters in this section makes the fight inevitable (it is definitely going to
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Explain How Arthur Miller Uses Act Three As A Dramatic Device To Expose The Rivalries Which Exist In Salem. In 1952‚ Arthur Miller wrote a play entitled‚ ‘The Crucible’. The play is centred on the witch trials that actually took place in Salem‚ Massachusetts during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote about the event as an allegory for McCarthyism which occurred in the United States in the 1950s. McCarthyism was a time of great anti-communist suspicion in the late 1940s and 1950s. The key connections
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LEVEL 3 How to write a Film Review Credits (first page only): Title‚ year‚ genre‚ director‚ (screenwriter)‚ music or soundtrack‚ main actors. Credits: Summary of the plot (synopsis): Only a brief summary of the film‚ around ½ to ¾ page. Make sure that your summary makes sense to a reader who does not know the movie. Do not refer to specific scenes and do not try to explain everything. You must also include the following items‚ but not as different parts (they should be included
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How does Miller create tension in Act 1? Miller creates tension in Act 1 of A View from the Bridge using several techniques. A View from the Bridge is set in Red Hook‚ in Brooklyn‚ which was a poverty-stricken slum. Also‚ Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman‚ and longshoremen were not well paid. The fact that poverty in this area is so large creates tension and from the beginning of the play we feel this tension. Alfieri is the first character we are introduced to in this play. Alfieri’s speech at the
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How does Arthur Miller create drama and tension in Act 1 of ‘The Crucible’? The Crucible is a play‚ which explores the witch- hunting hysteria that happened in Salem 1692. Miller uses this “organized mass-hysteria”[1] to comment on his own similar experience during the 1950s. Through “The Crucible”‚ Miller is able to draw an analogy between the hysteria of the Salem witch-trails and its modern parallel of the anti communist ‘witch-hunts’ which occurred due to the HUAC-House of un-American Committee
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marriage. Gothic horror combines the elements of horror and romance into its own style‚ the style includes different aspects that normally re-occur in the genre; A darkened atmosphere and a rickety old house which gives home to a sinister villain that creates havoc for a certain victim of their choice. In this instance the narrator is the villain wrecked my madness and distress and the victim which is an old man who is wanted dead for his “Evil” “vulture” eye that torments the narrator .This end with
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grave-digging and murder in many of his works‚ which were the acute reflection of Victorian society’s foremost fears. One of the main assets of his work‚ however‚ was his ability to build intense suspense. By using a variety of techniques‚ Poe was able to create tension and mystery in his short stories. In this essay I will aim to describe his myriad methods. Poe employs excessively detailed descriptions and repetition to delay the reader’s arrival at the final climax; he did this because he wanted to give time
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How does the director Stephen Spielberg use filmic techniques to build suspense and tension in the opening sequence of the film ‘Jaws’? The 1975 summer blockbuster ‘Jaws’ based on the best selling novel by Peter Benchley The film opens with a chilling black screen and the non-digetic sound of little bubbles popping in the distance. This automatically gives the impression that the audience is underwater. The black screen also makes the audience feel nervous about what is happening around us
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Act Three of Arthur Miller’s script The Crucible opens with a very hostile‚ tense and desperate mood due to the Salem Witch Trials being in full swing. Hathorne is questioning the wife of Giles Corey‚ Martha‚ about whether or not she is aligned with the Devil and one of his witches until Giles comes barging in “roaring to the court” that he has “evidence” for them to see until he is eventually “removed by the court marshal” (83-84). Giles is angered and furious that his wife is being put on trial
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For my final project‚ I choose to watch Jaws directed by Steven Spielberg‚ 1975. Jaws is set on Amity Island known as a popular summer tourist destination. As the town prepares for its annual Fourth of July parade‚ a shark lurks in the waters threating the town’s main source of summer income. After multiple shark attacks‚ three men take it upon themselves to catch the great white shark that has plans on ruining the summer. At the opening shot we find a group of kids siting on the beach with a bomb
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