The fourth wall is how play writes speak directly to an audience without speaking to them. The fourth wall is how play writes speak directly to an audience without speaking to them.
B.funnel: In play writing the narrator or characters may address what they are saying directly to the audience. When they do this they themselves notice that they are fictional. One particular use of the fourth wall is in Author Millers play The Crucible. In the crucible Aurthor Miller uses the forth wall to describe mass hysteria in the 20th century. In The Crucible, Miller breaks the forth wall by speaking directly to the audience. The fourth wall, which is used in the Crucible, is when the author or character directs what they are saying to the audience, "The
