preview

Analysis Of Frank 's ' The Crucible '

Decent Essays

Frank drunkenly dashes out of the bar and into a wooden building. In his exhausted stupor, Frank collapses against a pile of wood as he tries to recuperate both his mental and physical composure. Free of the conspirators in the bar and of Joe’s pursuit, Frank acquiesced a rare moment of introspection when finally alone and away from his assailants. But as he regains composure, his surroundings consume him. The wood building brings Frank back into his prison cabin from the war, and Frank’s mental bulwark fails to shield him from the the humiliation from the bar as the past infuses with the present. The seedy lawyer’s words seep into his mind as a disjointed auditory flashback is heard, condemning Frank to be the coward who informed on his men. But as the flashbacks intensify, Frank is doomed to relive the slaughter of his men. Conversations from the camp materialize as he walks down one of San Francisco’s subway tunnels. The audience is privileged to see that the tunnel is clean, empty, and well lit from a deep focus shot, but Frank believes he is in the escape tunnel in Germany from the camp. A low angle close up shot reveals Frank’s hazy, dreamlike trance where his flashbacks viciously ponders the past. The voice of Joe rouses the men to escape through their tunnel that night, but Frank beckons his men to stay. “Don’t do it, Joe, don’t do it.” His pleas are wasted against the unwavering resolve of his desperate men, as the escape invokes almost certain death. The low angle

Get Access