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a worn path
Title: a worn path
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 500 | Pages: 2.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
a worn path
Tragedy and the Common Man
An Essay by Arthur Miller
1949
In this age few tragedies are written.
It has often been held that the lack is due to a
paucity of heroes among us, or else that modem
man has had the blood drawn out of his
organs of belief by the skepticism of science, and the
heroic attack on life cannot feed on an
attitude of reserve and circumspection. For
one reason or another, …showed first 75 words of 500 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 500 total…not peculiar to grand or elevated
characters. Nor is it necessarily a weakness. The
flaw, or crack in the character, 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. Only the passive,
only those who accept their lot without active
retaliation, are "flawless." Most of us are in that
category.
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