Dramatic Conventions

Play writes use dramatic conventions frequently in their work. American author Authur Miller and Russian author, Anton Chekhov are masters of illustrating these. Miller and Chekvoc use dramatic conventions of aside, conflict, and authentic dialog in their plays The Crucible and The Brute.
Miller uses authentic dialog in The Crucible. For example in this one particular scene Mr. Proctor tells Reverend Hale about Abigail and the other girls dancing in the woods at night. It is thought that the girls are bewitched. However Proctor tells Hale that “the children’s sickness ha[s] naught to do with witchcraft” (857). Miller uses the word “naught: instead of the modern word “nothing” because he wants to set the time period of the trials of 1692 to make the setting more believable to the reader. In another scene Mary Warren makes a gift for Mrs. Proctor while she had been sitting in court for a long time. Mrs. Proctor looks at Mary’s gift and says “why, thank you,...