Arthur Miller writes about the tragic results of human failings in his play‚ The Crucible. He presents characters from the past and infuses them with renewed vitality and color. Miller demonstrates the horrifying results of succumbing to personal motives and flaws as he writes the painful story of the Salem witch trials. Not only do the trials stem from human failings but also from neglect of moral and religious considerations of that time. Characters begin to overlook Puritan values of thrift
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People are influenced by opinions. It is either their own or societal perspectives that will affect their actions. Arthur Miller’s‚ The Crucible‚ displays a character that shows the difficulty of extreme scrutiny from societal and personal perspectives. The character‚ John Proctor‚ struggles with opinions from society. He also struggles with the difficulty of his own opinions. He struggles to find himself and what will make him happy throughout the play‚ but with the help of his own opinion‚ he
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In this response‚ I intend to discuss Arthur Streeton’s Fire’s On‚ a 183.8 x 122.5cm oil on canvas painting‚ produced in 1891 in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales‚ Australia. Fire’s On depicts the steep “walls of rock” “crowned” with “bronze green” “gums” and the “crest mouth” that he encountered on his journey through the Blue Mountains. Streeton created this painting to justly portray the rough‚ “glor[ious]”‚ unsung landscape of Australia‚ namely its “great‚ gold plains” and “hot‚ trying winds”
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life lessons. Throughout this piece we encounter countless acts of failure‚ acts that‚ unlike others‚ Willy refuses to admit to. The main character‚ Willy‚ has a huge sense of pride‚ it seems to dictate most of his life. Pride plays a large role in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. It is Willy’s exaggerated sense of pride that becomes his biggest obstacle. Pride is what stops him from achieving something he can truly be proud of‚ yet
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Tragedy and the Common Man by Arthur Miller In this age few tragedies are written. It has often been held that the lack is due to a paucity of heroes among us‚ or else that modern man has had the blood drawn out of his organs of belief by the skepticism of science‚ and the heroic attack on life cannot feed on an attitude of reserve and circumspection. For one reason or another‚ we are often held to be below tragedy-or tragedy above us. The inevitable conclusion is‚ of course‚ that the tragic mode
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At the end of the Cold War‚ a new phenomenon arose characterized by massive intensification of economic‚ political‚ social and cultural linkages across borders and continents. People call it many different names to the confusion of the common men and women. Some spoke of liberalization‚ while others started a discourse on internationalization-all these refer to rapid and large-scale changes in global trends that have significantly altered traditional views‚ standards and even practices. The good
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income figures. This means that 36.5 million people just in America either were unemployed or lived off food stamps or were unable to get a full time job. It is very difficult to live like this‚ as the nation saw illustrated in “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller. Willy Loman‚ the protagonist‚ struggled with finances and couldn’t live a standard life. Without money‚ he couldn’t pay his household necessities like the refrigerator and this caused him great stress‚ which then led to bad decisions. Willy
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may seem harmless‚ but it can be very destructive. The citizens of Salem made judgments on their neighbors‚ forming opinions that they might be witches. Those solitary judgments led to many peoples’ deaths‚ their judgment of witchcraft were wrong. Arthur Miller gives people some insight into the Salem witch trials in his play‚ The Crucible‚ which shows how the peoples’ poor judgment led to hysteria and tragedy in the community of Salem. It also shows how the people changed because of this witch scare
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For one‚ a failure to one can be seen as a success to another. It can be through a job‚ your family‚ or through financial success. In the book Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller‚ the author brings up the topic of failure multiple times. Many of these failures are demonstrated through the struggles of the main character‚ Willy. Though the audience never actually can look into the main character’s mind‚ one can clearly
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IV/ Written work: 2. Waiting for the Shop to Open Waiting for the shop to open (1943) is a painting by L. S. Lowry. Laurence Stephen Lowry was an English painter and became well-known for his oil paintings of industrial and urban landscapes of the North of England in the mid-20th century. The scene of the painting takes place in a street which is in front of a greengrocer’s shop called “fish and fruit”. Furthermore‚ the number of the street‚ 117‚ on the door’s shop was the same as Lowry’s house:
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