Willy Loman. Willy is a man who is rather unmanly because of his weak and cowardly acts throughout the play‚ where he is surrounded by Linda his wife and his sons Biff and Happy. In a my opinion‚ this play is extremely well-written and it covers a large diversity of circumestances and issues in Arthur Miller’s time. Talking politics ‚ having lived through both world wars ‚ Arthur Miller was deeply affected by the trauma served by these wars. He once said in
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Walter Lord‚ author of the documentary-style non-fiction account A Night to Remember‚ about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The RMS Titanic was the world’s largest passenger ship when it entered service‚ measuring 882 feet in length. The state-of-the-art Titanic came equipped with 16 watertight compartments. Though shipbuilders believed that the ship could not flood‚ they predicted that it could remain afloat even if a few of the watertight compartments flooded. Within the walls‚ there were watertight
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commit suicide and finally end the family’s feud. Revenge‚ love‚ and a secret marriage force the young lovers to grow up quickly‚ and unfortunately‚ fate causes them to commit suicide in despair. In this play‚ main conflict‚ Juliet’s tragic flaw‚ and Romeo’s tragic flaw is incorporated throughout the scenes. Romeo believes it is love at first sight when he hides underneath a mask so that no one will recognize him and observes Juliet during the Capulet’s dinner party. After the party‚ Romeo and
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The Great Gatsby SS Questions 1. A tragic hero contains a fatal flaw‚ and is responsible for their own downfall. Jay Gatsby reflects a tragic hero as in loving Daisy he causes his own downfall. Gatsby continually loves Daisy for five years. Gatsby and Daisy fell in love before he left for the war‚ and vowed to wait for each other. Circumstances arise and Jay is unable to return from the war as soon as he had hoped. During this time Daisy meets Tom Buchanan‚ and marries him; however‚ Gatsby does
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Who was the greatest contributor to the death of Romeo and Juliet? In this essay I will be writing about William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet‚ I will be doing an in-depth analysis as to who I think is most to blame for the sad eventual deaths of Romeo and Juliet‚ analysing each character in detail. First‚ let’s start with the general storyline. It is fourteenth century Verona‚ an Italian city. Two families‚ the Capulet’s and Montague’s‚ have been feuding for centuries‚ the reason for this
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Although there are people like John Proctor‚ who knows the girls are lying and are trying their best to change everyone’s opinion before people die for it‚ there are other people in the story are only trying to protect their own reputation. The main characters that represents the people are john Proctor‚ Abigail Williams and Judge Danforth. John proctor is an honest man who believes in helping others‚ but when his reputation is on the line he is forced to make a decision. On the other hand‚ Abigail
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loathe overcome by that adoration‚ old contempt versus youthful affection‚ having no idea for the past or the future‚ and this adoration closes in "love-devouring". In dramatic literature‚ characters are responsible for the disastrous outcome. The events of Shakespeare’s play also depend on the characters of the people in them‚ not on an arbitrary fate‚ as it was the nature of Mercutio and Tybalt which caused the banishment of Romeo. Many people are at fault for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet‚ specifically
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Even if Goeth was just following orders‚ he is still responsible for the Jewish deaths he caused‚ either directly by killing them himself‚ or indirectly by assisting in the transport of Jews to death camps. At any point in time‚ Goeth could have stopped being a perpetrator/collaborator and become an upstander for the Jewish cause. Instead‚ Goeth continued to persecute the Jews‚ and aided others in doing so. If he was responsible for following his orders‚ he should have been equally responsible for
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If he didn’t marry Juliet none of the secrets would have happened. Since he allowed it and was the one who married them it caused them to have to be secretive about their marriage. If the friar didn’t allow or marry them or old Romeo and Juliet to talk to their fathers about this‚ their deaths could have been avoided. The friar also was the one who had the plan of Juliet drinking the poison and telling Romeo about their plan to run off together. The friar failed to give the
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Veterans face traumatic events out on the battlefield that changes their lives forever. As they fight through war‚ it becomes a lifestyle that they are used to and can not get out of. People do not appreciate the amount of time veterans give to fight our country. Coming home from the war veterans most times feel like they are still fighting a war. When coming back from the war most people mistreat the veterans that just fought for our country. In the poem‚ Odysseus by Homer‚ after winning the war
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