All Is Lost

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Loss is defined as a fact or process of losing something or someone, it can be an object, home, hobby or ambition. With most people it is described as a moment of readjustment with the scrambling of thoughts going through their mind with the barrens of paranoia and despair. Most of the time when somebody losses something it usually contains love for a person or an object. Love can be one of the most confusing emotions next to dealing with death and loss for someone or something. Loss can sometimes disarray the mind into an alternate reality, some people result to this because it is easier for them to reside in than reality would be. In the play “The Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller and the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe describes the mental and physical losses of two men
In the play by Author Miller the writer describes the protagonist Willy Loman as a man who had hit rock bottom as salesmen, even with his business knowledge at peak his body and youth had become a real problem due to his old age. Unable to accept that his world as a salesman had perhaps to com...

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