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Death of a Salesman was performed by the first time in 1949 and since then it has been considered one of the most important of American plays. It was awarded in 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. The play is a challenge to the American dream which since the Civil War ( and to be more precise since 1900) has become the dream of business success. Horatio Alger’s characters and “from rags to riches” narration of his stories rooted the myth of success in American character and

deception of a generation who has no answers. It refuses the safe scheme of realist tradition offering an alternative object that doesn’t explain what it represents but hints another beauty and a different order for those who will never die. Postmodernist is a depthless response to the inevitable. It is not interested in offering solution because postmodernism doesn’t have any. It doesn’t solve the tragedy it takes it for granted, it has learnt how to live with natural disasters and the thread of

The novel The Joy Luck Club(1989) which written by Amy Tan has got a big success at that time, in the novel, it has vividly shown the difficult relationship between mothers and daughters and the life of the immigrant families. After that, the novel The Joy Luck Club has been remade the same name movie and released in 1993, which also got big succeed in this movie version. In comparison research on an individual’s preference, more audiences will prefer the movie version, because the tone, background

In the play the crucible miller writes about these girls and how they are in the woods dancing and summoning the devil, but they also somewhat commit witchcraft but once they got caught in the woods and committing witchcraft they blame it on other innocent people saying that they were the one's who were committing witchcraft. That same day in court when the people who were blamed for committing witchcraft were trying to tell the court that it wasn't them and they would never do that the court didn't

In the book, The Crucible, Arthur Miller writes about the Salem witch trials in the town of Salem in 1692. The plot of this story revolves around a group of girls who obtain all of the power, and are the main accusers of those who have committed witchcraft. This story shows how important choices are, because the people who were tried in court had the decision of making a false confession or to be hanged. These are vital choices, and how one responded is very important. Miller suggests that positive

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, was a historical play written about the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692-93. The Salem witch trials created mass hysteria throughout the entire village of Salem, which was also mainly inhabited by Puritans. Puritans had a set ideal of firm beliefs that managed how they lived. Essentially, they were living as an elect, which meant they (referring to the Puritans) had a place in heaven for the righteous acts they have

The Salem Witch Trials are a big part of history that is still hard to unravel today. These trials occurred in 1692, when a few teenage girls admitted to being possessed with the devil and blamed other local residents with committing Witchcraft (“Salem Witch Trials”). The accusations all started with a young girl named Abigail Williams. She believed that if she blamed other people, she would not be punished for the things she did. As a result, many other girls followed her lead and named innocent

Built by the british in 1758 while the french and indian war on the only dry and flat ground in the area. The fort had fell into unrepairable when the war widened in 1776. Resuming on 1777 general leger tried to intimadate the forts occupants by parading his troops in front of the fort. When this didnt work he sent a truce flag bearing a proclamation authored by general burgoyn. Gansevoort refused to respond. After that he began to siege all operations. encamping the regulars and artillery on a

be known as the Boston Tea Party. But it was his ride on April 18, 1775, that put his name into history, especially after it was remember later by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. At 10 that night Revere rode to Lexington warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the approaching British. The Battle at Lexington came after, and that brought the American Revolution. During the war, Revere made many different hats. He manufactured gunpowder and cannon for the Continental Army, printed the country's first

The Aftermath and Acts That Followed the Boston Tea Party Karla Valeria Gonzalez Formatted Rough Draft Mr. Isaac G. Pietrzak U.S. History 1301 November 4, 2016 On the Thursday of December 16th of the year 1773, several men began to dump what is now worth over a million dollars of British tea into the Boston Harbor. This later became known as the famous Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was the initial cause of the American Revolution and the freedom America has gained