- much Exclamatory Sentences: the burst of emotion and internal tension from Proctor in protecting his own name, including sense of justice, deperation, and also the fear of death
- incomplete sentences: Danforth’s words are often interrupted, -> Act of protest, Proctor has a stronger strength in the dialogue, showing Proctor’s excitement and Danforth’s shame in forcing Proctor to confess.
- reversal: Proctor became the one in power, instead of being interrupted when stating truth
- Allusion: Proctor directly mentioned God, rejecting to put his name upon the church, to demonstrate his piety and the determination to protect his name(his reputation)
- Repetition: “You will not, …, you will not” shows Proctor’s strong stance to reject the control from Danforth to help Danforth maintain his authenticity.
- Rhetorical question: Proctor stated the reason why he wanted to protect his name(reputation), not wanting his offsprings suffer from his bad reputation
- stage direction: the drums symbolizes the consequence of the protest against authority
- Allusion and Allegory: the ultimate judgement after people die, by the hand of God.
- stage direction and simile: Parris was controled by Danforth to try to convince Proctor. Convincing was an act of strategy for himself instead of sympathy towards Proctor.
- many:
- Reptittion of structure “Because” and similar meaning: strengthen idea and determination
- Rhetorical question
- stage direction: auditory imagery to demonstrate Proctor’s deperation
- many:
- Allusion: ‘Give them no tear…’ act of Jesus
- 3
- stage direction: sacrafice everything for Proctor’s belief (connection to [[UWC/Eng/Advertisement/Nike|Nike]])
-> Internal Tension(Proctor) + External Tension(Proctor and Danforth)
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Connected global issue
fought/protest against strong power for sense of justice or personal belief by the cost of their career and even life
Division: 1. resisting power center or social trend (for social change) 2. achieve of personal belief 3. sacrafice ‘everything’ for certain goal