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    To achieve a goal is not easy which people have to face the challenges and difficulty on their life. In the play “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, the major theme of this play is about American Dream and the interpretation about dream includes memories, confliction, and arguments of Willy Loman. Willy Loman who is the main character in this play has to face difficulty to achieve the America dream like others. However, the reality is often different to the imagination, so that Willy Loman…

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    The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, tells the story about a tangle of lies, misunderstandings, and deaths in the town of Salem during the time of witch trials. In the story, Abigail Williams along with a group of girls who follow her, between they Mary Warren, are responsible for falsely accusing the vast majority of people in the town of alleged relationships with the Devil, an act that the highest authorities believe. In this occasion, Miller treats topics such as integrity, revenge, guilt…

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    lie and sign myself to lies! I have given you my soul.." (Miller 133). The significance behind this line is that Proctor wants to save his good name for his family. John Proctor knows that it is okay to die because he believes then that the judges will feel guilty about it afterwards. Also Proctor knows that he did absolutely nothing wrong, but he is such a good man that he will risk his life for the others. In the final sentence Miller makes a statement about integrity. He believes that…

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    With very little investigation, one may think “The Lightning-Rod Man,” written in 1853 by Herman Melville, is a simple story about a man selling lightning rods who hopes people’s desire to stay safe during a storm and the closeness of the storm will help him in trying convince people to buy his product. Upon further investigation, I do not believe Melville meant for this story to just have one simple meaning. The complex style of writing leave many readers looking for more on what Melville means…

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    Itself Fear is defined as a strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the characters experience constant and irrational accusations of witchcraft in their Puritan society. Through The Crucible, Miller creates an allegory, comparing the Salem witch trials to the Red Scare, emphasizing the downfalls of mass hysteria. During the Red Scare, the fear of communism in America swayed people to support Joseph McCarthy in the hunt for communists spies.…

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    living; that way of life gets stepped on and those who practice it feel the ruining effects. Arthur Miller tells a story of Willy Loman, a salesman in New York, who yearned for a simple country life. He travels around cities with his suitcases to sell stuff but he never actually reaches his life goals. As the years went on, the pace of the city sped up and almost everyone held modernized attitudes. Miller emphasizes how the rural way of life is lost amidst the modern commercialism. This is…

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    Big Fish Film Analysis

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    The movie Big Fish was written by Daniel Wallace and John August and directed by Tim Burton. This film tells the tale of father and son and their struggle to make amends from earlier events in their life. Will, the son, is upset with his father, Edward, because he is unable to establish which of his famous stories are fantasy and which are a reality. Nearing the end of the movie Will discovers that sometimes it does not always matter what is real or fake as long as the intentions behind it have…

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    For The Brothers This is for the brothers who go to work every day; No pimping sagging or bragging, just striving to live a life worth having. We give props to the rich and celebrity dads, now lets honor the men of the working class. Not living the High Life or part of a High Light But being the farther, his kids wanna be like. This is for those brothers The ones dong all they can, to show young boys, what it means to be a man, That it's not all about the flash and the cash but the legacy you…

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    Some others who are tested by intense moments and wavered. When proctor attempts in a last desperate move to save his Elizabeth from false accusations of witchcraft he resorts to summon his servant Mary Warren to the court, to reveal the truth about the girl's dancing in the woods and Abigail's lies, but when she sees the intensity and the escalating of the accusations she is overtaken by fear ( Porter 188 ). What adds to Mary's fear is that her confession only serves to increase…

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    Fred Ribkoff Guilt

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    In order to have guilt, one must feel guilt. It is evident that Willy feels guilty for his wrongful actions towards Linda when he tells Biff about the other woman and says "she's nothing to me, Biff. I was lonely, I was terribly lonely." (Miller 95). This, alone, displays how Willy understand that he is guilty. The fact that Willy attempts to justify his actions, shows that he knows what he has done wrong and he tries to make himself feel better by justifying the means of the situation. He…

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