the tragedy The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ a tragic hero dies a good man when brought to trial over nothing more than child’s play and dishonesty. John Proctor is an honest‚ upright‚ and blunt-spoken man because he fought for what is right and found forgiveness in his fatal flaw. Although he exhibits these traits throughout the story‚ John dies a dynamic character. Throughout the story‚ John expresses qualities of an honest man by defending his wife Elizabeth when she is accused of hurting Abigail
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Small White Old Coward In the short story “Big Black Good Man” by Richard Wright at a dock side hotel in Copenhagen‚ Denmark during the late 1950’s‚ our two protagonists meet. Olaf Jensen‚ a white old man just on the verge of 60‚ is the night porter. With a long night ahead‚ Olaf sits down behind his desk‚ as he’s loosening his shoelaces‚ Jim‚ a giant African-American man at six and a half feet tall‚ walks through the door to strike fear into Olaf’s life. Although Olaf is certainly surprised
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Young Goodman Brown is one of Hawthorne’s most significant short stories in which his preoccupation with the effects of guilt and sin are combined with a continued emphasis on symbolism and allegory. The story is an allegorical journey of a newlywed man who is walking toward spiritual crises‚ hand in hand with the devil himself. Set in Salem about the time of the Salem witchcraft trials‚ it provides the backdrop to a weird journey into the dark forest and the darkness of human heart as well. All the
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Young Goodman Brown By Nathaniel Hawthorne In his deep and particularly dark short story‚ Young Goodman Brown‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne explores a very real but uncomfortably thought of side of the human spirit. Set in the real town of Salem‚ Massachusetts where the historic Salem witch trials took place‚ this story looks into the depths of the spiritual battle being waged for the hearts and minds of humans. While at first glance the story is about a man’s surreal late-night
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Why is he called the misfit? His reasoning for calling himself the misfit is based on his encounter with the justice system. Supposedly‚ there were papers for his arrest-that he never saw-and then was told by the head doctor he killed his father. However‚ he claimed he had no recollection of such actions. He believes that actions are considered wrong only because other people say that they are wrong‚ and he must have done something bad because they have papers. He stated that he could not fit what
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having the amount of discrimination that it does‚ adding another way to subliminally segregate people would only make it worse. This question‚ “If we were able to exclude the eccentric‚ the different‚ the misfits‚ and the weak‚ what would happen to society?” is said as if the different‚ weak and misfits were not already excluded. Throughout all of history‚ the aforementioned of a community have been looked down upon by the rest of society. Even today the world struggles to accept these people. If this
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In a lot of ways‚ the Misfits can be described as painfully and “cringeworthily” misogynistic. Marilyn Monroe’s innocent blonde characterization in a world of a majority of men‚ but one‚ visually objectifying her would send the feminists of today’s time into a frenzy on Twitter. In some ways‚ the treatment of women seems self-aware from a writing standpoint. To the point where it’s so extreme‚ there’s no way it’s not used as a plot device. But for what purpose? I saw the treatment of women and Marilyn
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life where they will question if they are naturally a good or bad person. This is normal‚ for it is all a part of human nature for someone to determine their authentic propensity. The stories “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” by Leslie Marmon Silko‚ “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ “A Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright‚ “Hills Like White Elephants”‚ and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’ Conner by Ernest Hemingway all include
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with their society‚ the Maxson family is doing the exact opposite while Troy is ignoring the truth that society is accepting African-Americans as equal. We can see the main source of the negative outcomes of these plays coming from the role of the man in the household. While these two men have these flaws‚ these plays speak to the possibility being tragedies. Willy Loman as well as Troy Maxson each have their own flaws that complicate their households by tearing their family’s apart. Whereas both
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Embrace misfits? People in today’s society tend to be "normal" and have a place to "fit" into our society. However‚ there are those who are "abnormal" and do not "fit". In today’s social order‚ it is "normal" for those who "fit" and those who do not "fit" to co-exist. In the novel Brave New World‚ those who do not "fit" are cast out onto an island far away from civilization. Those who are cast out are referred to as misfits. Looking at Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World as a guide‚ should
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