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Crucible (1953) - legal system

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plea / ten thousand –> extreme reaction + desire for absolute power –> willingness to manipulate public

weeps –> McCarthy’s manipulation of language

accuser always holy –> secular audience + Brechtian device –> communist allegations within Red Scare critique

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Crucible (1953) - marriage

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court = house

and yet

judge

magistrate –> rejection of public pressure like Hollywood Ten

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Crucible (1953) - religion

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permission –> power

obedience –> McCarthy’s manipulation of language

diabolism –> direct questioning of hysteria and whether it is valid or just a scare tactic –> Brechtian device –> criticism of the Red Scare’s manipulation for personal agendas

I saw - link to “holy accuser” –> Brechtian device –> secular lens –> critical of HUAC trials + communist allegations

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Tempest (1611) - control over others

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born devil

mine

subjects

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Hag-Seed (2016) - control over others

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bus

natures

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Tempest (1611) - control over the mind

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indulgence

rarer

strength

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Hag-seed (2016) - control over the mind

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elements

ninth – link to Tempest and self-constructed prisons

fool

LJCPM

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Prufrock

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let… etherized

face

hair

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Hollow Men

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voices + jaw

twilight

stars

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Magi

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B/D

satisfactory

ease

alien

agony

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Rhapsody

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twisted

street lamp

smallpox

smells

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Preludes

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infinitely

(last but most important) time

soul (+ sparrows)

cab-horse

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ten thousand

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Danforth: “I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law”

violent imagery
aggressive tone
hyperbole

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judge

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“you will not judge me more, Elizabeth” vs “I cannot judge you John”

mirrored dialogue

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weeps

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Danforth: “Hang them high over the town! Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption”

high modality
manipulation of language
extrapolation

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accuser always holy

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Proctor: “Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God’s fingers?”

logos
rhetorical questions

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court = house

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Proctor: “as though I come into a court when I come into this house”

simile

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and yet

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[Elizabeth] “she doesn’t want friction, and yet she must”

diegesis reveals tension within the marriage because of the social expectation for a wife to be subservient that conflicts with Elizabeth’s own morals

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magistrate

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Elizabeth: “the magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man”

legal jargon

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obedience

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Parris: “there is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell is burning”

hellish imagery
manipulation of religious language

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I saw

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Abigail: “I want the light of God… I danced for the devil… I go back to Jesus… I saw Sarah Good with the Devil!”

religious lexis
manipulation of religious language

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born devil

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Prospero: “a born devil on whose nature \ nurture can never stick”

juxtaposition

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mine

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Caliban: “this island’s mine by Sycorax my mother”

personal pronoun

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subjects

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Caliban: “I am all the subjects that you have”

plural vs singular

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bus
prisoners: "Ain't gonna get on the back of the bus \ And you can give our land right back to us" historical allusion rap form
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natures
Sal: "who by their very natures cannot be educated... nature versus nurture" intertextuality juxtaposition
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indulgence
Prospero: "let your indulgence set me free" direct audience address metatheatre
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rarer
Prospero: "the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance" juxtaposition religious
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strength
Prospero: "the strength I have's mine own" personal pronouns
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elements
" "to the elements be free"... and finally she is" natural imagery
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ninth
"the ninth prison is the play itself" intertextuality metafictive
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fool
"Fool... it was imagination and wishful thinking, nothing but that. Resign yourself. He can’t resign himself" stream of consciousness tone
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let... etherized
"let us go then, you and I" vs "like a patient etherized upon a table" oscillation in narration (direct address vs morbid description)
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face
"prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet" allusion (Nietzche's masks) unnatural imagery?
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hair
"(They will say: "How his hair is growing thin!")" stream of consciousness
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time
"Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days" "morning comes to consciousness" "night" "four and five and six o'clock" fragmentation -- cyclical distortion of time across preludes
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infinitely
"The notion of some infinitely gentle \ Infinitely suffering thing. \ Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh" sudden change in tone from very emotive to sadistic and cold depicts the impossibility of grasping the ontological meaning of life
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sparrows
"sparrows in the gutters" natural vs urban imagery
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soul
"soul stretched tight across the skies that fade behind a city block" spiritual vs urban imagery link to Prufrock "evening is spread out against the sky"
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cab-horse
"lonely cab-horse... steams and stamps" amalgamation of natural and urban images to produce an unnatural hybrid pessimistic tone --> objective correlative
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voices
"Our dried voices... quiet and meaningless" "wind's singing more distant and more solemn than a fading star" motif Biblical allusion - star
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stars
"there are no eyes here in this valley of dying stars" synechdoche - symbolic - link to voices Biblical allusion to Psalm 23’s “Valley of the Shadow of Death” --> barren afterlife of modern society
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jaw
"broken jaw of our lost kingdoms" synechdoche - symbolic link to voices
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twilight
"death's twilight kingdom \ The hope only \ Of empty men" liminal imagery allusion to afterlife
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twisted
"Twists like a crooked pin" "A crowd of twisted things; A twisted branch upon the beach" "A broken spring in a factory yard, Rust that clings to the form" vignettes industrial images
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street lamp
"The street lamp sputtered, The street lamp muttered" link to voices in Hollow Men personification
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smallpox
"The moon has lost her memory. A washed-out smallpox cracks her face" subverts Romantic image natural imagery
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smells
"nocturnal smells" "female smells" "cocktail smells" motif olfactory imagery synechdoche?
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B/D
"Birth or Death" binary opposition -- downplays value of witnessing birth Biblical allusion
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ease
"We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here" link to Hollow Men biblical allusion
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satisfactory
"Finding the place; it was (you might say) satisfactory" low modality
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alien
"With an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death" plural gods vs God -- link to Eliot's conversion to Anglo-Catholicism
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agony
"hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death" image of labour
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plea
Danforth: "I will not receive a single plea for pardon or postponement. Them that will not confess will hang."
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permission
[Parris] "he felt insulted if someone rose to shut the door without first asking his permission" diegesis
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diabolism
Evidently we are not quite certain even now whether diabolism is holy and not to be scoffed at diegesis religious lexis used for political manipulation and hidden agendas

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