https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan Respond to one of the citations from playwright Arthur Miller's 1949 essay "Tragedy and the Common Man" by making a connection to The Crucible. Include an embedded text citation from the play in your response. Include your name in your response. en-us 2018-11-16 00:30:06 UTC 2025-10-22 17:42:12 UTC hello@padlet.com http://www.thecityreview.com/astor.gif imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305080992 I believe that the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as
kings were. ]]> 2018-11-16 00:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305080992 imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305081166 [I]f the exaltation of tragic action were truly a property of the high-
bred character alone, it is inconceivable that the mass of mankind should cherish tragedy above all other forms, let alone be capable of understanding it.]]> 2018-11-16 00:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305081166 imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305081343 [T]he tragic
feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay
down his life, if need be, to secure one thing­his sense of personal dignity.]]> 2018-11-16 00:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305081343 imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305081564 Tragedy, then, is the
consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly.]]> 2018-11-16 00:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305081564 imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305081783 The flaw, or crack in the characters, is
really nothing ­and need be nothing, but his inherent unwillingness to remain passive in
the face of what he conceives to be a challenge to his dignity, his image of his rightful
status.]]> 2018-11-16 00:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305081783 imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305082044 From
this total questioning of what has previously been unquestioned, we learn.]]> 2018-11-16 00:46:52 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305082044 imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305082352 The quality in such plays that does shake us, however, derives from the underlying
fear of being displaced, the disaster inherent in being torn away from our chosen
image of what and who we are in this world. Among us today this fear is strong, and
perhaps stronger, than it ever was. In fact, it is the common man who knows this fear
best.]]> 2018-11-16 00:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305082352 imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305082525 Now, if it is true that tragedy is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to
evaluate himself justly, his destruction in the attempt posits a wrong or an evil in his
environment.]]> 2018-11-16 00:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305082525 imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305082698 The wrong is the condition which suppresses man, perverts
the flowing out of his love and creative instinct.]]> 2018-11-16 00:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305082698 imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305082868 The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment
is what terrifies.]]> 2018-11-16 00:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305082868 imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305082992 No tragedy can therefore come about when its author fears to question absolutely everything, when he regards any institution, habit or custom as being either everlasting, immutable or inevitable.]]> 2018-11-16 00:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305082992 imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305083165 The commonest of men may take on that stature to the extent
of his willingness to throw all he has into the contest, the battle to secure his rightful
place in the world.]]> 2018-11-16 00:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305083165 imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305083485 The commonest of men may take on that stature to the extent
of his willingness to throw all he has into the contest, the battle to secure his rightful
place in the world.]]> 2018-11-16 00:53:37 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305083485 imsandycarlson https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305083702 In [tragedies], and in them
alone, lies the belief­optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.]]> 2018-11-16 00:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/imsandycarlson/TragedyCommonMan/wish/305083702