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...
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...
30). Cheated out of his greatest desire, Troy works now as a garbage man and in middle-age, is growing increasingly bitter (Bloom)...
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...
of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...
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...
on the socioeconomic totem pole. He has faced personal and professional adversity much of his life. He feels inferior to his old...
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...
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...
the others; interestingly, he is also probably the weakest character. What is Mamet doing by drenching his audiences in the F-wor...
In the beginning of the play one sees how Willy has no respect for his son Biff. He argues with his wife saying "Biff is a lazy bu...
of the American Dream with Benjamin Franklin who seemed to prove that through honest and hard work an individual could find succes...
of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indica...