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Language Analysis

Language Analysis. Linguistic Devices. Imperatives – command words Proctor: You’re coming to the court with me, Mary. You will tell it in the court . Linguistic Devices. Imperatives – command words Proctor: You’re coming to the court with me, Mary. You will tell it in the court .

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Language Analysis

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  1. Language Analysis

  2. Linguistic Devices • Imperatives – command words • Proctor: You’re coming to the court with me, Mary. You will tell it in the court.

  3. Linguistic Devices • Imperatives – command words • Proctor: You’re coming to the court with me, Mary. You will tell it in the court.

  4. double negatives, changing verb tenses • He cannot discover no medicine for it in his books’; • I know you have not opened with me’; • ‘Seeing I do live so closely with you, they dismissed it’; • ‘I am thirty-three time in court in my life’; • ‘He give me nine pound damages’;

  5. Use of Similes and Metaphors • ‘There be no blush about my name, Abigail reassures her uncle • Judge Danforth tells the children, A very augur bit [a corkscrew-like tool] will now be turned into your souls until your honesty is proved’. • ‘My daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the forest’

  6. Language varied by Miller to present different characters and their roles in society. • Judge Danforth uses elaborate phrases compared to the villagers. • Giles Corey is blunt, demonstrating his blunt nature.

  7. John Proctor uses some of the most poetic lines in the play. • Proctor: (with a cry of his whole soul) Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name! Heightens the climax of the speech and the agony in which Proctor sees the world around him.

  8. Structure • Act 1: an overture of the events • Act 2: Contrast to first act. Opens quietly. Ends in slight climax of Elizabeth’s arrest. • Act 3: No actual trial scene. We hear a snippet of the scene, in which an actual quote of the real scene is used. • Act 4: Isolation of the people convicted and the isolation of John Proctor – highlights the inability of the society to realise the error of judgment they have made. Highlights to the reader/audience how Proctor is to die for his moral judgement and die a martyr.

  9. Language Analysis • Parris, his eyes going wide: No - no. There be no unnatural cause here. Tell him I have sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly, and Mr. Hale will surely confirm that. Let him look to medicine and put out all thought of unnatural causes here. There be none. • What can this demonstrate about Parris and how does the language support ideas?

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