Keller Act 3 SuperQuotations

“I don’t like him mixing in so much.” [1]

Keller’s capitalist mindset interlinked with his paranoia which entails his guilt. [1]

“I’m askin’ you. What am I, a stranger? I thought I had a family here. What happened to my family?” [1]

Dyadic repetition of interrogatives shows how Joe is trying to evoke sympathy as well as it showing his despair; which ties into the use of the elision being used so he can present himself as unintelligent and harmless. [1]

“I’m askin’ you. What am I, a stranger? I thought I had a family here. What happened to my family?” [2]

Shows Keller’s extreme views around the powerful importance of family as well as presenting his integrated capitalist ideologies with the notion that strangers are unimportant. [2]

“You have no strength. The minute there’s trouble you have no strength” [1]

Highlights the underlying resentment Keller has for his wife(linking to the theory that Kate pushed Keller to do what he did) . Syntactic Parallelism. [1]

“Then what do I do? Tell me, talk to me, what do I do?” [1]

Interrogatives depict the defensive nature of Keller to the audience; He’s heavily contradicting himself when he said Mother has ‘no strength’ as he still seeks her assistance which further reveals to the audience how much he relies on mother. [1]

“How can I pay?” [1]

Reinstates his materialistic ideologies. [1]

“He would forgive me! For what?” [1]

Exclamative highlights his emotive state as well as depicting his lack of remorse and showing how he hasn’t had a character shift. [1]

“I should’ve put him out when he was 10 like I was put out, and make him earn his keep.” [1]

Allows the audience to view the origins of Keller in terms of him being brought up upon strong capitalist values that mirror the American dream; there’s a sense of jealousy that Keller possesses in comparison to his upbringing compared to his children’s. [1]

“Because I’m his Father and he’s my son.” [1]

Tautological statement used to further incline the audience to understand the extent of Keller’s family values and his pure devotion to his family that he expects to be reciprocated. [1]

“if there’s something bigger than that I’ll put a bullet in my head” [1]

Heavily proleptic to the forthcoming events which is a mild use of Chekov’s gun as it subconsciously inclines the audience to anticipate a tragic event as well as further depicting Keller’s only passion to be his family. [1]

“had a forty-foot front, it ended at the building line.” [1]

Further symbolisation of the isolation of the house and rejection of communal values which reflects Keller’s capitalism. (secrecy-poplar trees) [1]

“Is that where I belong?” [1]

Shows Keller’s manipulation as well as Miller highlighting the extreme social norms that someone who did something as serious as Keller isn’t expected to go to jail. [1]

“It’s dollars and cents, nickels and dimes; war and peace, it’s nickels and dimes, what’s clean?” [1]

Compares such a large concept of ‘war and peace’ to capitalism to highlight how far capitalism is ingrained in society. [1]

“It’s dollars and cents, nickels and dimes; war and peace, it’s nickels and dimes, what’s clean?” [2]

emphasis on ‘nickels and dimes’ has the negative connotations of dirty change which shows how the capitalist dream is built on dirty finances; also plays into the semantic field of dirt which runs throughout the play. [2]

“Half the Goddam country is gotta go if I go!” [1]

Highlights the mass war profiteering that took place and the overall injustice that Keller seems to understand. [1]

“I can’t sleep here” [1]

Volta in terms of a sudden rush of guilt from Joe (sleep symbolises peace) which shows how it took his family to turn on him for the remorse to be evoked (or the worry of going to jail) [1]

“But I think to him they were all my sons” [1]

Double mitigated to present the realisation of hamartia

anagnorisis and eponymous [1]