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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...
His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...
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...
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 ...
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...
Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...
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 ...
353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...
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 ...
In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...
In seven pages the ways in which Death of a Salesman can be considered a reflection of playwright Arthur Miller are analyzed. Fiv...
This 5 page paper discusses three plays by American playwright Arthur Miller. The three are Death of a Salesman, After the Fall an...
In forty pages this paper examines how Miller does little with regards to female character development in such plays as Death of a...
son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the w...
did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...
nations, and they did not attract the attention of the gods. In the past few centuries, on the other hand, we have ample examples...
expect of him. Based on these criteria we will examine the tragic characters in Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, The Stranger an...
In eight pages this paper examines the importance of home in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel...
In ten pages this paper examines Miller's scathing attacks upon social capitalism contained within his contemporary drama Death of...
("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...
and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...