Essays 91 - 120
In eight pages this paper examines the importance of home in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel...
did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...
In ten pages this paper examines Miller's scathing attacks upon social capitalism contained within his contemporary drama Death of...
Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...
353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...
in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but ...
This paper consists of 5 pages and contrasts and compares the protagonists John Proctor and Willy Loman as featured in Arthur Mill...
brother, his time away from home when he worked on ranches where he states, "theres nothing more inspiring or-beautiful than the s...
bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...
told him about the American Dream. It is likely that when he ages and gets to a point in his life when he has worked for many deca...
condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...
("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...
excuses for that sons pathological misbehavior; he virtually ignores his second son; hes a real bastard to friends, neighbors and ...
In six pages this essay evaluates Miller's play based upon Aristotle's tragic components to conclude that Death of a Salesman is i...
shoeshine ... A salesman is got to dream, boy," says Charley, a friend of the family. Willy sees the image of himself coming apart...
love, but have to ultimately abide by their previous obligations, as they are both happily married. Death of a Salesman (1985, pro...
and we are inside Lomans house. We read that as the light changes we are forced to see how this house looks somewhat pathetic in t...
and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...
of how they look at the world. For the two sons this image is different. Biff is the intelligent brother who is often angered a...
to gain his own independence despite his fathers quelling influence; however, this is never to be for the thirty-four-year-old ner...
Loman has limited intelligence or at least that seems to be the case; the point is arguable however. The story itself, as origin...
is that so many people believe in ideals like Willys. In the end, what is show is that a man with so much potential ends up losing...
and new trends. He could not open his mind to new ideas concerning anything, including his family. In essence, he was a man with a...
finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...
soreness of his palms...then carries his case out into the living-room...Im tired to death" he tells his wife (Miller 12-13). Hi...
sons that they need to look good, be friendly, and essentially to be what he is not. He has always possessed many different notion...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
not going to happen, and she wants her sons to be good sons, which they are not, at least in her eyes. Perhaps she knows that ther...
30). Cheated out of his greatest desire, Troy works now as a garbage man and in middle-age, is growing increasingly bitter (Bloom)...
on the socioeconomic totem pole. He has faced personal and professional adversity much of his life. He feels inferior to his old...