Essays 1 - 30
model to his boys of what a successful and well-respected man should be; however, the legacy he left as a father was a model of ho...
his meaningless and mind-numbing job. Ivan Ilyich becomes aware that something "new and dreadful" was happening to him, somethin...
belief in the "American way," but even at the cost of his sanity he is still unable to succeed. What he has done is to instill the...
First, is that the play should be of serious magnitude, and have an impact on many, many people (McClelland, 2001). The second fac...
This paper examines the themes of death in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Miller's, The Death of a Salesman. This five p...
so gifted and so special that the world will fall at their feet simply because they exist (Miller). As a result, Biff and Happy (p...
His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...
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...
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...
This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...
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, ...
a job he has obviously done for decades. This image is one that induces sympathy and empathy and thus presents the reader or viewe...
faults at all. In our modern society, and perhaps in the past century or so, a tragedy does not necessarily possess all those qu...
These boys are very reflective of how children will take on the traits of their father, through the insistent nature of their fath...
the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...
and just let the warm air bathe over me" (Miller 14). But then he suddenly starts to run off the road: "Im tellin ya, I absolutely...
to Bill" (Kosenko). The women, in general, accept their position as submissive in the little community and it is actually only Tes...
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 presents different attitudes regarding age as reflected in Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield, The Sandbox by Edward Alb...
"actresses" that make up the whole of the Sunday scene. She is in this mood when a young couple sit down close to her. She imagi...
In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...
sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....
young men. One of the great ironies of the play is that Willy has sold the boys a perverted version of the American Dream. He has ...
is silly as the family lives in New York City. And "Happy" is ridiculous; perhaps Willy thought that if he gave his son that name,...
tumbles into despair. All the while, he treats his wife and sons quite negatively. This is not an uncommon scenario. A man has tro...