ESSAY TIPS

• Structural / theatrical devices used pt1

  Stage directions

  Delayed decoding - miller slowly reveals the apple tree breaking and the significance of the 'jailhouse' that Keller is untroubled by - moral ambiguity.

  Pace - short and fast scenes

  Comic relief + tension building = scenes with Burt, Franks star sign discussion

  Action
• Structural / theatrical devices used pt2

  Effective entrances / exits

  Denouement (the final resolustion of the intricacies of a plot) - the final gunshot signilling the end of K's life

  Exposition - Keller + Kate = 'mother' suggests she is an archetypal character.

  The construction of three acts

  Tragedy

  Lighting

  Monologues

  Staging

  Build up of each act
• what are the big ideas of the play?

  Ibsen's idea of the 'return of the past'

  Greek Tragedy

  Human relationships and obligations
• Introduction: In Arthur Millers post war, domestic realist tragedy of the 'common man' Miller uses the bourgeois Keller family to explore...
• Introduction structure:

  Thesis / AO1, AO3, tragedy terminology, establish three paragraphs.
• 3 idea paragraphs, half extract half wider play.
• One larger extract paragraph, two equal (to extract) wider play paragraph.
• Paragraph structure:

  Topic sentence

  Extract AO2, AO3, back to AO2 (4 quotes min)

  Wider play AO2, AO3, back to AO2 (4 quotes min)

  Close with topic sentence again.
• Embed quotations with precise terminology