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    extract‚ that Jekyll has only been experimenting with science produces dramatic tension. Throughout the extract‚ Jekyll confesses that he can only speak ’by theory alone’ regarding his attempts to create the potions to transform himself into Hyde. This represents his constant uncertainty about the results of his experiments. Therefore if even Jekyll‚ the man performing the experiments‚ is uncertain of the results‚ dramatic tension is caused for the reader to discover the results of the experiment. Jekyll

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    Steinbeck creates tension when he writes about a clash or an awkward moment. You get this feeling at the pit of your stomach‚ burning with curiosity‚ fear and excitement‚ all these emotions mixed together. As a writer‚ Steinbeck creates tension because he can use tension in the form of conflict or a disagreement‚ and to make his story a page-tuner. When you meet tension in a book‚ it makes your heart beat faster; it makes your palms sweat‚ and produce headaches. But you ignore all that pain and all

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    significant imagery to show the isolation and importance of the situation. There is a certain tension in the air when the two old friends reconnect after their falling out. They are alone in the middle of nowhere: “Victor looked around the desert‚ sniffed the air‚ felt the emptiness and loneliness” (159). Alexie uses imagery to encapsulate the situation that the two young men are in. To help the reader feel the tension of the isolated experience‚ imagery is used to describe the spacious and lonely desert

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    Miller’s play The Crucible there are reactions to the actions that we caused. Throughout Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible‚ based on the Salem Witch Trials‚ the reader follows the atrocious actions of Abigail William in order to illustrate that actions have consequences‚ good or bad. In the beginning of The CrucibleAbigail‚ one of the girls that went around accusing people of being witches‚ had a stranglehold on the rest of the girls that danced with her at the forest. Abigail forced the girls “to

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    Miller’s The Crucible‚ Abigail’s decisions are made from an intricate weave of mixed emotions driven by the tortured mind of a 17 year old girl. It is those decisions‚ those choices she makes that destroy the town of Salem. While in the beginning she is the victim of unfair and cruel circumstances‚ her choices such as witchcraft‚ manipulation‚ and blackmail lead to her descent down to a lowly villain who cares for nothing other than what she wants. The Crucible‚ while a story of how hysteria and

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    English Controlled Assessment Draft: Conflict in the Crucible The play I am studying for this essay is called “The Crucible” and I will be focusing on Act 1 of the book. The question I will be answering is what’s the most powerful type of conflict in the opening act of the crucible? The word conflict means a state of disharmony‚ opposition and or fighting. The conflict portrayed in the Crucible is often described as tools used to describe events in Millers time period. For example‚ witchcraft doesn’t

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    Analysis of Abigail Williams Abigail Williams displays the most influence in the ongoing which trials of Salem in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Abigail manipulates others‚ display vanity throughout the story‚ and is obviously a deluded young girl in love with an older‚ married man who does not return her affections anymore. Her false accusations of witchcraft in Salem‚ sparked great chaos‚ and only so that she could force her lover into marrying her. Her actions are the foundation of every death

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    situation happened in the play The Crucible. Abigail Williams is a girl in the play. She is responsible for the blaming that started the witch trials in The Crucible. The person who is at fault in condemning the people to death is Judge Danforth. Abigail is the reason that the mess of the witch trials got started in The Crucible. In the first act of the play after Tituba confessed to committing witchcraft‚ Abigail started to blame other people for using witchcraft. Abigail started the her first accusations

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    Secondly‚ the strife theme is very powerful in this music as it shows the tension between the two families and its impact on Romeo and Juliet. Tchaikovsky presents the theme of strife with ‘agitation’ and angry rhythms in woodwind along with racing scales in strings. His choice of dynamics such as crescendo reinforces the tension and solemn mood between the families and as a result‚ the audience can feel the feud escalating due to the growing force of chords and the sudden changes in dynamics. Moreover

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    Bertelsen English Ⅲ 10/8/17 Abigail the Witch What do you think of when you hear the word despicable? Maybe you think of terrible and disgusting things that nobody would ever do. Whilst definitely not being the most admirable‚ Abigail Williams is the most despicable character in the play because she tries to get a woman executed to prove a point to John Proctor. She is the total embodiment of despicable and everything that it relates to. First of all‚ the way she acts is totally irrational and immature

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