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    Joe Keller A Sociopath

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    main character that is a father and nothing more worthy. The Joe Keller in this story is no tragic hero as the author and many readers would like to think, he is nothing near the sort of anything even slightly heroic. He is a truly deceitful sociopath to his society and his family. Joe Keller, head of the Keller family, runs a factory that produces aircraft parts in post-WWII America. Due to his factory’s contributions during the war, Joe holds a prominent platter of respect from his town. He comes

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    Not all heroes wear capes, and not all heroes make the right choices. In the drama All My Sons by Arthur Miller, Joe Keller does not play a true hero but a tragic one. Every hero has a flaw and for Joe Keller, family is more important than being a moral person, causing his own downfall. Joe Keller, a well-respected business man, father, and a family pleaser; held his head up high and felt he was on top of a totem pole. He changed his business from a washing machine company into a multi-million dollar

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    Miller claims his characters are tragic heroes, Joe Keller from All My Sons is not a tragic hero because he is not pre-eminently great, he invokes no sense of pity in the audience, and he dies at the end of the story. Joe Keller starts of the story with quite a bit of money and a factory but he

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    which Joe Keller, an average middle-class father and husband, wants to achieve. Keller is faced with a tough situation that, in the end, will determine his fate. Overcome with greed, his fight for money and prosperity causes Joe Keller to fall short of his morals and values. Joe chooses greed over the morally correct decision, and, as a result, he hurts not only twenty-one pilots, but his family, and himself. Keller’s son, Larry, commits suicide because of his father's actions. Joe Keller realizes

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    There is nothing ruthless about Joe, no hint of the robber baron in his make up , his ambitions are small a comfortable home for his family, a successful business to pass on to his sons, but he is not completely fastidious in achieving his goals. Joe Keller is the most important character in the play, All My Sons. Miller who wrote All My Sons with human understanding but moral sinew as well as dramaturgy summarised his theme, John Gossner says as, "the responsibility of man to society or the responsibility

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    The two suicides of the play are similar in the fact that both Joe Keller and Larry Keller killed themselves because of the same pain and problem that happened during the war. Joe committed suicide in an attempt to get rid of his problems and perhaps himself because he hated himself for not realizing that he has a bigger duty to the world. Joe did everything in his life for the sake of his family’s happiness and created a principle in his life that nothing is more significant in his life than his

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    general vision in ‘All My Sons’ by Arthur Miller is neither wholly optimistic nor pessimistic. For example from the opening, you could say the view is rather optimistic. Joe, Kate and Chris apart from missing Larry seem to be reasonably happy. As Keller’s secret begins to unravel this changes drastically. It is a pleasant Sunday, Keller is reading the paper, and he plays jail with one of the neighbourhood kids Bert. We later find out that this is a way to charm the community into ignoring his past crime

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    too late to change anything, and results in death. Both Joe and Chris Keller constitute as being tragic characters of All My Sons because they both make very tragic mistakes and are driven by the disastrous events that begin before the play. Joe Keller can be described as being tragic because his whole life was dedicated to his family and their well being but all his plans were undone by one fatally flawed

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    Brian Sandoval 11/11/17 Mr. Amoroso AP Literature Their Eyes Were Watching God LAP Topic 4 To find the elusive and coveted treasure of love, a dauntless expedition is untaken into life’s catacombs, scouring through the tunnels and evading the traps that lurk in the shadowy corners. This journey can’t be completed without sorrow and suffering yet the marring of the soul from the journey can break a person’s resolve, ultimately believing that the treasure they once sought was merely

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    instantly turned around to the sound of another familiar voice; Joe West had arrived while Vibe was in trance and was now running toward his position, his voice

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