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    only for a visit, but Biff does not prove to show any success, and Willy is very disappointed with him. In order to understand the play Death of a Salesman you have to understand how Arthur Miller wrote his plays, he used dramatic elements in all of his plays, such as stage settings, lighting, and sound. Arthur Miller was born on October 17th, 1915 and died on February 10th 2005, during the seven decades he wrote some of the most profound plays known to literature. He wrote the plays Death of a Salesman

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    American playwright Arthur Miller once said “Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.” Hysteria can thrive only because people benefit from it. It suspends the rules of daily life and allows the acting out of every dark desire and hateful urge under the cover of righteousness. Hysteria is an uncontrolled fear complemented with excessive

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    and they find it hard to adapt to what happens around them. Being stubborn can also lead you to get into some big trouble if you do not compromise sometimes. In all honesty, I am a stubborn person and hate to compromise, but I will if I have to. In Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is unbelievably stubborn and definitely delusional. Constantly, Willy is hallucinating about things that have already happened, or things that never even could have happened. Although, Biff, Willy’s

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    author Arthur Miller depicts a group of girls lead by Abigail Williams, who are going around the town of Salem accusing people of witchcraft. Many people in the town are living in fear of being accused because Abigail and the girls prosecute anyone they desire. After being prosecuted, some people choose to join the girl’s side and shift the blame to someone else. A group mentality is created in the society, leading people to become followers, controlled by Abigail. Throughout the story, Miller demonstrates

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    The Crucible Author's Purpose: Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible to inform people about the cruel times in Salem, Massachusetts. To show how people turned on each other, accused people of being witches just to gain their land or just because they didn't like them. Miller could also connect to this story because people were accusing him of Mccarthyism, and he was not a communist, which was like the people of Salem accusing people of witchcraft and they were not witches. Character Motivation:

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    Guilty Conscience “Death of a Salesman” by American playwright Arthur Miller is a drama that resonates with the majority of viewers and readers of the play. Miller eloquently illustrates the drama and complex dynamics of the Loman family. The Loman’s consist of Willy and Linda Loman as well as their two sons Biff and Happy. Specifically, “Death of a Salesman” focusses on Willy and his oldest son Biff. Willy, now an old man has deteriorated into a miserable and senile man. Willy Loman’s character

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    The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a very engaging and interesting play. It tells the story of the witch trials which occurred in Salem Massachusetts in 1692. The play shares the story of a community trying to fight off the witchcraft that is affecting their children. The play is full of lies, deceit, blame, and morality. The play starts off with reverend parris kneeling over his daughter's bed. She is believed to be bewitched. Reverend Parris goes on to interrogate Abigail Williams, his niece,

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    Fear is something that does not want to experience again. Someone can use the fear to creat the superstition because the fear will become more and more afraid that someone will take it as the true thing, but the most afraid thing is the heart. Arthur Miller who wrote 《The Crucible》told us that human hearts are the most terrible fear because the human hearts are incomprehensible and are not what they were in old days so that there appears superstition and the superstition confuses the human hearts

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    People often lie if they must choose between telling the truth which would ruin their lives or lie and accuse others to save oneself. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller emphasizes mass hysteria caused by people accusing innocent people to save oneself from death. Even though the Salem witch trials and the McCarthyism era took place in different time periods, they both show the reoccurring theme of chaos caused by lying and accusing others to save oneself. The Crucible, which illustrates the time during

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    Decaying Morals Terror swiftly invades the town of Salem in Arthur Miller’s book The Crucible as accusations and fear play with the minds of the bewildered and ignorant citizens. Because Abigail and the girls fear that they will be hung, they say what they did, which was dancing in the forest, was against their will, saying they were bewitched by others. Abigail and the girls then go on accusing almost everyone in the town. Arthur Miller reveals that fear and hysteria can destroy relationships and

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