The Dramatic Nature of Act Three of Arthur Miller's The Crucible

The Dramatic Nature of Act Three of Arthur Miller's The Crucible

Of the crucible.disscuss how the plays stage directions,

Speech, plot development and character actions or

Development contribute to the drama and tension

Of the act

The dramatic nature of act 3 in the crucible goes up and down, there

are many ways in which the stage directions, speech, plot development

and character development help to raise and lower the tension of the

act. The writer shows how these things have an affect on the audience

and how they feel about the play.

Act 3 starts with voices off stage, there is no visual. The audience

can hear Hathorne, Martha Corey, Danforth and Giles. The tension rises

as you cannot see the actors, but can only hear the speech. The stage

direction is off stage (a roaring goes up from the people) this makes

the audience think, what will happen next. In the speech some

repetition and rhetorical questions are used to make the audience feel

sympathy, anger or worry.

"Danforth: (mystified): Books? What Books?"

"Hathorne: This is contempt sir, contempt!

The tension is brought down as Giles, Francis and proctor try to

reason with the judge. Giles talks about the judge's father and an old

case, that he took. This calms down the audience as the people on

stage are only talking quietly.

Tension rises as Giles Corey partially gives evidence against Thomas

Putnam also showing how much he hates Putnam "Giles (clenching his

fist): a fart on Thomas Putnam is what I say to that. Then the plot

develops by making this end with Giles not giving the name and then he

goes to jail threatening to cut Putnam's throat. He th...

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... the tension by saying

proctor signed himself to the devil. Everyone expect hale believe her.

So in the plot hale disagrees with the proceedings and quits the

court.

Hale: I denounce these proceedings I quit this court (he slams the

door shut behind him)

Hale develops as a character because he realises his mistakes.

The scene ends with tension because of the chaos and hysteria when

proctor is shouting they will all burn together and hale quits the

court. We can see in this scene how much proctor has developed because

at the beginning of the movies he is a strict and powerful character,

but by the end he is more religious and in touch with his feelings.

In conclusion the stage directions and speech are more effective of

creating tension and dramatic nature than plot development and

character development.