For many people, a personal style becomes not only something they use, but something they live by and don’t stray far from. Authors writing styles are no different. Specifically Arthur Miller and Edgar Allen Poe. Both of these authors writing styles involve using characters to display fear through their writing. However, the difference lies within how each author uses those characters. Miller uses his characters in a way that creates a type of fear that never goes away, it sticks with the reader until the end of time, whereas Poe uses his characters to create a fear that builds up and then hits the reader all at one point.
In the Crucible, Arthur Miller creates fear through his characters, specifically by giving unreliable characters, like judge Danforth, more power than they can handle. Miller does a great job displaying this toward the end of Act three when Danforth believes Abigail’s accusation of a yellow bird on the ceiling. In the story, Danforth states “What is it child?” and when Proctor denies there being a bird Danforth exclaims “Be quiet”! These lines spoken by Danforth show fear because it shows how when one person has power they can make the decision however they want, whether it’s the way we want them to or not. This shows the reality that one person could …show more content…
One of the best examples Poe gives from the play can be found toward the end when the anonymous narrator exclaims “Leave my loneliness unbroken—quit the bust above my door!/Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!/Quoth the Raven “Nevermore”. The reason these lines create fear is because the narrator feels he can never leave through the chamber door because the raven will keep reminding him of his greatest fears of his lost loved