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- 1TensionA state of worry,nervousness, unfriendliness
- 2When writing about tension, how can you describe a tense situation?– Avoiding eye contact
– Silence
– Time feels like it is moving slowly.
– People moving awkwardly or uncomfortably. - 3What methods in your writing should you include to show tension?– Sound vs silence: Having there be almost complete silence with just one person talking, or
one bit of noise can help create tension. Example: ‘It was silent outside. Carlson’s footsteps
died away. The silence came into the room. And the silence lasted.’
– Juxtaposition of character actions: If one or more character is moving and one or more is
still, this can create something uncomfortable - 4What methods in your writing should you include to show tension?– Short sentences focus the reader’s attention on one particular thing.
– Longer sentences: 1. Enable the writer to add description to create a detailed impression.
2. Can use listing to show that a lot of things are happening at once. - 5What methods in your writing should you include to show tension?Light imagery
● Descriptions of light in literature are used to depict goodness, hope, life and beauty, so will
decrease the tension within a description.
● Darkness in literature is used to convey evil, death and the unknown, so can be used to increase
tension as it foreshadows ominous events. - 6PolysyndetonListing using the same conjunctions (for example ‘and’) between each item on the
list.
○ Can be used to slow the pace and focus on a number of things happening at once.
○ Example: ‘Her feet battered on the hay and she writhed to be free; and from under
Lennie's hand came a muffled screaming - 7AsyndetonUsing commas to separate items, but no conjunctions.
○ Can be used to emphasise a faster pace.
○ Example: ‘Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale
eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders.’ - 8AnaphoraThe repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases or
clauses.
○ Allows writers to emphasise or reinforce meaning.
○ Example: It was silent outside. The silence came into the room. And the silence lasted. - 9Eddie works hard to support his family and has a proud sense of personal honour. At the beginning of the play, he is a respected, well-liked member of his community. He takes in two illegal immigrants and Louis responds with ‘you got a lot of credit coming to you.’Miller zooms in on a conversation between Louis and Eddie to focus on how he is highly
respected, like any tragic hero they need to start in a place of respect before the audience
witness their hamartia consuming them. - 10When Rodolpho arrives in the household, Eddie struggles to defend the family’s reputation, “I’m ashamed. Paper Doll they call him. Blondie now.”The reputation of a family was imperative to
the man’s idea of honour. It was vital that the man of the house would defend their ‘name’ and,
therefore, their reputation. Eddie’s short sentences imply how he is trying to hide his anger and
disrespect that he feels Rodolpho has caused his family. - 11Eddie wants something that nature won’t allow. He wants time to stop. He tries whatever he can to stop the relationship between Catherine and Roldolpho.His toxic masculinity also stops him from trying to understand the connecton Catherine and
Rodolpho have, in is his deseparte state he visits a lawyer, pleading that ‘there must be
some kinda law’ against men who are potentially homosexual. By Eddie pleading with Alfieri
he uses the modal verb ‘must’ to persuade him that there has to be a solution to Rodolfo. - 12Toxic masculinity views aggression and violence as a sign of power and the main grounds to decide whether someone is worthy of respect.Eddie tries to assert his dominance of Rodolpho with
his pugnacious behaviour when trying to teach him to box, because Rodolpho is not as ‘strong’ as
Eddie, he sees this as a means of submission from Rodolpho, consequently toxic masculinity
contributes to Eddie's downfall. - 13A pivotal moment for Eddie’s downfall is when he kisses Catherine and then Rodolpho, he becomes apoplectic and desperate to show Catherine Rodlopho’s true intentions.With disgust, he calls
Rodolpho a "thing," but Eddie is the one who has acted outside social norms by kissing his own
niece and a male family member, he has been so completely consumed by his hamartia (Catherine)
that he will go to ridiculous lengths to keep her near him. - 14This builds Eddie’s denial towards losing Catherine.He is so focused on her that ‘his eyes
[become] like tunnels’ leaving himself consumed by what he can do to ‘save’ Catherine. - 15Towards the end of the play, Eddie feels he has no other option but to call immigration, he goes against his personal honour and is aware that if he is found out he will lose all respect from his community.Miller mirrors this event earlier in the play through Vinny, so that the audience knows
that Eddie is aware of his actions and the consequences it will bring. - 16Eddie's hubris is at its highest point when he loses the respect of his community and family when they find out about him calling immigration.He is so overly defensive and concerned about his own
honour that he will stop at nothing to restore his position in society. - 17Eddie becomes pugnacious towards Marco repeating that he ‘wants his name back’ and that Marco has wiped the neighbourhood with his name ‘like a dirty rag.’Eddie’s apoplectic nature becomes
stronger through his use of the verb ‘want’ it is almost childlike, Eddie can’t get his own way so
must resort to a defensive ‘no backing down mode’. The simile also emphasises that Eddie is in
denial about his actions, as he knows that he is now the ‘dirt’ in the community for breaking his
code of honour. - 18This poignant ending strikes a sorrowful note in the audience because the punishment of death for the crime of betrayal seems too severe, therefore the audience reflects on Eddie and potentially their own actions.By the end of the play, Miller has cleverly shown the audience what honour and denial can do to a
man; he can lose everything if he does not ‘settle for half’. - 19—
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