How Does Miller Use Representations of Speech and Other Dramatic Techniques to Create Conflict in This Extract and in One Other Episode Elsewhere in the Play?

How does Miller use representations of speech and other dramatic techniques to create conflict in this extract and in one other episode elsewhere in the play? (30 marks)

In this extract George is trying to convince Ann and Chris that Keller is guilty and that Steve (George and Ann’s father) is an innocent man who was framed for the killing of 21 pilots. George is hysterical as both Ann and Chris rubbish his claims and it is evident that he is desperate to make them see that Keller has been lying all these years. Chris is strongly dismissive to what George is saying. This is highlighted through his annoyance and frustration as he repeatedly refuses to believe that his father is guilty because in his eyes his father is a good man who would never do something like that. This causes conflict to arise between Chris and George as they both fight to show their father is an innocent man. Ann is shaken up by what George is saying and she tries to calm George down. Ann is torn between the two people she loves dearly, Chris and George. Miller uses many use representations of speech and other dramatic techniques to create conflict in this extract in many different ways. Miller also creates conflict in another episode of the play between Mother and Chris due to Mother’s franticness as she is determined to show that Larry is alive which Chris completely disagrees with.

Miller creates conflict between Chris and George as Chris is adamant that his father is not a guilty man and he tries to stop George with aggression. Chris’s aggressiveness with George implies to the audience of the close relationship that Chris has with Keller as Chris stands up for his father and supports him. The stage directions of Chris pushing George ‘whirling him around’ suggests how Chris is forcefully trying to remove George from the house so Keller will not be disturbed which hints at how he does not want his father to be troubled. The verb ‘whirling’ implies to the audience that Chris is trying to...