How Does Miller Use Representation of Speech and Other Dramatic Techniques to Explore Ideas About Guilt in the Following Extract and One Other Episode in the Play?

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How does Miller use representation of speech and other dramatic techniques to explore ideas about guilt in the following extract and one other episode in the play? Page 30 ‘Murderers!’ to pages 32 ‘…now cut it out’ This extract occurs towards the end of Act one, before we meet George. The Kellers and Ann are talking about Steve Deever. The primary area of ideas about guilt happens when Joe Keller defends Steve from his own daughter Ann. The audience gets the sense of guilt from Joe when he talks about Steve Deever in prison. Joe says to Ann: ‘And the next time you write him I like you to tell him what I said.’ Joe Keller is quite selfish here, and trying to make him sound like the bigger man by letting him have a job when Steve gets back out of prison. However, there is repressed guilt behind this imperative as he is the one who got Steve sent to prison by lying. ‘Write him’ is an example of ellipsis; this can infer a hint of an accent and ordering the Ann must write to her father for his benefit. When Joe Keller gets back home from the court case, Miller has created the idea of guilt here by telling Joe’s ordeal when he got home. ‘There was a court paper in my pocket to prove I wasn’t.’ This declarative is stating that just because he had the paper to say he wasn’t guilty meant he wasn’t. However, Joe knew he wasn’t so he had it in his pocket. ‘Guilty as hell,’ as Joe knew he was guilty and lying he had to feel the paper I his pocket to reassure himself. ‘Court paper’ means it is official and no one can disprove the law. When Ann tells Joe that she never writes to her Dad, Joe is to blame for that and feels guilty. Ann to Joe ‘No, I’ve never written to him.’ This shows Ann’s loyalty to the Keller family and goes against Joes thoughts of the Deever family. To which Joe replies ‘What the hell kinda talk is that?’ This interrogative has the idiom ‘hell’ in it

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