... not make any sales while he was in Yonkers, and while coming home, he saw himself driving 60 miles per hour, forgetting the last five minutes, and veering off onto the shoulder. The reader is not the only person that can see that Willy loses his concentration. Biff suggests that it might be Willy's eyes. But Happy states otherwise. ... "No, I've driven with him. He sees all right. He just doesn't keep his mind on it. I drove into the city with him last week. He stops at a green light and then it turns red and he goes," (Miller 19-20). Another incentive could be that he knows ... to ask ...

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... is personal reputation, for when he does not preach on damnation he strives for money such as the deed to the preacher's house and expensive candlesticks. "The man's ordained, therefore the light of God is within him." This quote from Hale, is a form of irony because the audience, and the people convicted of witchcraft know that Reverend Parris is a deceitful person. But, since he is a priest, people don't convict ... to say, not even John. This was a great example of verbal irony. All parts with the girls lying about witches and ghosts are cases of dramatic irony, since, while the audi...

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... hunts". If you opposed the Salem Witch trials you were accused of being a witch. If you opposed the McCarthy investigations you were accused of being a communist. The play takes place in Salem, Massachusetts. Abigail and some of the young girls are dancing in the woods. They conjure up spirits while dancing naked and they are discovered by Reverend Parris. This leads the people of the town to believe the girls are witches. Reverend ... and dismisses Abigail from there home. Mary Warren now works for them and is one of the girls that was found dancing in the wood. After a long day at cou...

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... in. They seem to laugh at me."(Miller; The Death of a Salesman; pg. 23) By trying to see the reality in life, for once, he depresses himself so awfully, that he has a rendezvous in his head with his women that he sees on the side. He only uses this women to lift his spirits and to evade the truths that nearly scare him into his own ... grave. She does her job by telling him how great he is, and reassuring him of his great personality and his good looks. When she accomplishes her task ... out that his son flunked math. This scene is the turning point in his life, where everything begins...

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... history is demonstrated in his sensitive and passionate writing in Death of a Salesman (Griffin 41). The Crucible (1952) was originally intended to be called Those Familiar Spirits, referring to a spirit that a witch presumably sends out to torment her victims. However, the well area at the bottom of a blast furnace is known as the crucible, it is whe the molten steels collects being entirely broken down due to immense ... to dream. This shows Biff now has a firmer grasp on reality, but Happy is as lost in his world of dreams as Willy was. While the ot rs walk away Linda remains at the ...

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