Both texts explore the conflict between the individual and society, but while Arthur Miller presents this conflict as a public and verbal struggle resolved through terminal moral sacrifice, Han Kang portrays it as a bodily and psychological trauma that resists closure, suggesting that political violence under authoritarian control cannot be resolved through a single decisive act.

%% present conflict between individual vs society using their own devices, and two texts’ different narrative of ending indicated their unique intepretation of resolution as ambiguous or as terminal. %%

conflict of individual vs society 1. Crucible on mass hysteria and how it could be exploited - monstrification: “He wake me every night, his eyes were like coals and his fingers claw my neck, and I sign, I sign…” imagery, visual and tactile; reliance on objective sensation rather than evidence, collective fear replaces rational judgment - absurdity+dramatic irony: girls mimicking Marry Warren p107: dramatic stage direction to render horrified atmosphere, although the readers know - how conflict/hysteria could be exploited to control people 2. Human Act on direct brutality (The Factory Girl) systematic + personal - juxtaposition of naked teenage girls and armed men with “helmet and clubs” -> bully from the strong to the weakest - humiliation as a woman “wooden ruler thrust into vagina”: how ordinary object can become extreme torture, and how the most important organ was trampled ; “dispise self’s body”, trauma aftermath - authoritarian violence’s physical form causes both physical and mental trauma 3. comparison - C: externalized accusation vs H: internalized trauma -> socially performative vs mental and bodily remembered - C: more verbal(fearful community McCarthyism) vs H: imagery and tactile (authoritarian assertion over body)

different resolution presentation 1. C: Death as an ending to protect reputation, contestable resolution - “It is my name!” “cry with whole soul” p133: repetition of “name” -> amphasize the importance of name; allusion to religion, where signing name=give soul - repeated interruption: the determination even know the consequence of hanging -> use death as resolution to blackened name - personal integrity can still survive within a corrupt system, and that individual courage can offer a form of resolution even when the larger community fails 2. H: Multiple ending as diversified resolution - post-modernism fragmented narrative: open intepretation and present complexity via different endings: - Dong Ho’s mother(fight back as advocate) - “I jumped down, dashed over to the desk opposite, and scrambled up … pulled it[murderer photo] down and smashed the glass with my foot. Something splattered across my face—tears, or maybe blood.” - rapid verbs and imagery, ambiguity/duality/price of confrontation - Factory girl(remain silent and bear witness) - “You slide both hands beneath the straps of the backpack, … [the tapes from witness] Like a child you’re carrying on your back. So perhaps your hands are supporting, comforting, the backpack a baby’s sling.” - baby metaphor, sustained act of care - political brutality cannot simply be resolved through a single act or decision 3. Comparison - Individual sacrifice vs. collective response (H: collective memory rather than personal action) - C: moral closure through sacrifice(catharsis) vs. H: unresolved, ongoing, plural (to the future)

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significance: In lit, the theme in contexts of mass hysteria and authoritarian violence shifts from restoring social order to preserving moral truth, where resolution is allowed to take a contradictory or ambiguous form. The individual’s unique and indirect trajectory to seek resolution preserves moral truth despite unresolved social consequences.