WWII is over and communists are taking over Europe, a young Arthur Miller is hard at work with two revolutionary plays on his mind. Death of a Salesman was the play that every blue collar worker could relate to; it detailed the hardships of a struggling salesman and his family that never seemed to make it in the hard world of business. The Crucible, written 4 years later, was the play that had people on the edge of their seats in the theater watching a thrilling witch hunt which took the lives of 19 innocent people. With both plays having major success Miller uses contrasting ideas on symbolism, characterization, and theme.
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He becomes disrespectful towards Linda and doesn’t press his kids to do the right thing. On page 65 Willy and Linda will be having a conversation with Biff about his future and Linda provides a valid argument about what Biff should move towards. Willy takes offence to this interjection since he views her as interrupting him and he storms off .This is how Willy will treat Linda throughout the play and it will start to rub off on his kids because that’s what they think is the proper thing to do. Happy passes from girl to girl just because he can and to keep his self-esteem high. Any normal person would see this as demoralizing to the women but not Happy. On page 25 Happy is talking to Biff about the girl that he just was with, but she had a significant other. This has no burden on happy since he “loves it” (25 DOS) and it impresses his friends that he can get any girl that he wants. Biff doesn’t have the same atrocious attitude towards women that Happy has but he is a thief and a liar as shown by his actions on the football team. One afternoon he stole a football from the locker room. Willy found out and he did nothing towards Biff in punishing him, but instead, he told Biff that the coach was likely to congratulate Biff for his show of initiative in hia strides to become better at football (29, 30). While Willy is letting his …show more content…
Once accused, the accused would be given two options: plead guilty to witchcraft and receive whippings, banishment, and sometimes execution or plead not guilty and be executed for lying to the court. These accusations were taken very seriously by the courts and without real evidence John Procter is the first to be accused, sentenced, and hung. Abigail William’s false claims of Witchcraft against John Proctor set the stage for a trial in a governmental court ruled by judge Dansforth. Mr. Danforth is a man of perfect faith and is the lead judge in order of sentencing the accused people to their punishment. With his heavy focus on uprooting the problem of witchcraft in his community he fails to execute his job of verifying the claims. John proctor is falsely imprisoned and hanged for these baseless claims brought by a jealous ex
Arthur Miller’s goal for creating the play Death of a Salesman was to relate with the emotions of the average American …show more content…
He becomes disrespectful towards Linda and doesn’t press his kids to do the right thing. On page 65 Willy and Linda will be having a conversation with Biff about his future and Linda provides a valid argument about what Biff should move towards. Willy takes offence to this interjection since he views her as interrupting him and he storms off .This is how Willy will treat Linda throughout the play and it will start to rub off on his kids because that’s what they think is the proper thing to do. Happy passes from girl to girl just because he can and to keep his self-esteem high. Any normal person would see this as demoralizing to the women but not Happy. On page 25 Happy is talking to Biff about the girl that he just was with, but she had a significant other. This has no burden on happy since he “loves it” (25 DOS) and it impresses his friends that he can get any girl that he wants. Biff doesn’t have the same atrocious attitude towards women that Happy has but he is a thief and a liar as shown by his actions on the football team. One afternoon he stole a football from the locker room. Willy found out and he did nothing towards Biff in punishing him, but instead, he told Biff that the coach was likely to congratulate Biff for his show of initiative in hia strides to become better at football (29, 30). While Willy is letting his …show more content…
Once accused, the accused would be given two options: plead guilty to witchcraft and receive whippings, banishment, and sometimes execution or plead not guilty and be executed for lying to the court. These accusations were taken very seriously by the courts and without real evidence John Procter is the first to be accused, sentenced, and hung. Abigail William’s false claims of Witchcraft against John Proctor set the stage for a trial in a governmental court ruled by judge Dansforth. Mr. Danforth is a man of perfect faith and is the lead judge in order of sentencing the accused people to their punishment. With his heavy focus on uprooting the problem of witchcraft in his community he fails to execute his job of verifying the claims. John proctor is falsely imprisoned and hanged for these baseless claims brought by a jealous ex