What poetic devices does Miller use to convey the overwhelming emotion of the meeting between Elizabeth and Proctor in Act IV? This scene is found on pages 58-60. When in your life have you been overwhelmed with emotion?
In the meeting between Elizabeth and Proctor in Act IV their are many emotions being conveyed in such a short period of time. Miller tries to express these emotions thru metephores. For example when the two of them are discussing those that are standing trial for witch craft, Proctor asks about gils and elizabeth says "Great stones they lay upon his chest until he pleaded aye or ney. Whit a tender smile for the old man: they say he give them but two words. "more weight," he say. And died." (miller, 59.4.).
In my life i was overwhelmed with emotion when i was younger and i had to go to a funneral. It was the first one i had been too and unfortunnetly it wouldnt be the last. Standing at the coughfen with a lifeless stare in the inevidable i was ,as if it were punched into my head, hit with every emotion. I was happy their suffering was over, mad they left, sad the were gone, ect.
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