A Stylistic Analysis of Positive Temptation and Positive Intimidation in William Gibson's Play "The Miracle Worker"

Abstract

Temptation and intimidation in almost all of many literary texts are two powerful forces and central to nature and interaction of relationships, conflicts, and decisions that characters face. Temptation may present itself in persuasive form, emotional satisfaction, promising the pleasing reward, or transformation. However, intimidation operates through an authoritative person, instilling fear or creating pressure to ensure obedience and control. Thus, these forces underscore the complex nature of human motivation. Thus, this study examines the stylistic phonological, syntactic and semantic and graphological devices of temptation and intimidation in William Gibson's Play "The Miracle Worker" and finds out the functions the stylistic phonological, syntactic, semantic and graphological devices carry out in "The Miracle Worker".  The study hypothesises that "The Miracle Worker" uses different stylistic devices on different linguistic levels. And Stylistic devices used are functionally equivalent i, e, stylistically equivalent. Also, the stylistic functions of positive temptation and positive intimidation used are quite different. And the play uses the same frequency of positive temptation and positive intimidation stylistic devices. The findings of the analysis validate the first, third, and fourth hypotheses and refute the second, fourth one. Consequently, among the conclusions the study comes up with is that there are striking similarities and differences regarding the stylistic devices, their functions in different types of "The Miracle Worker" of positive temptation and positive intimidation.