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Prompt 01

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AP LiteratureIB Language & LiteratureAQACommon Core

In All My Sons, Arthur Miller portrays Joe Keller as a man who values family loyalty above everything, yet he ends up ruining the family he intended to safeguard. Write a well-organized essay arguing that Miller highlights Joe Keller's moral blindness to critique how the American Dream focuses on individual and family success while neglecting wider social responsibilities. Use specific evidence from the play, including character dialogue, stage directions, and plot developments, to support your argument.

Prompt 02

Essay task

AP LiteratureIB EnglishAQACommon Core Ela

In All My Sons, Arthur Miller explores the idea that personal responsibility is intertwined with social and moral responsibility. Write a well-structured essay that uses specific examples from the play to argue how Joe Keller's justifications for his wartime actions reveal the tension between his self-serving loyalty to his family and his wider duty to society. In your essay, examine how Miller employs character, dialogue, and dramatic structure to convey this theme.

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