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In five pages Schlondorff's 1985 interpretation of Miller's play is discussed in terms of acting especially Dustin Hoffman's and J...

In five pages the television version of Miller's tragedy featuring Dustin Hoffman is compared with the original play that starred ...

and character. Miller seems to have conceived of Death of a Salesman as a twentieth century tragedy in the tradition of the ancie...

First, is that the play should be of serious magnitude, and have an impact on many, many people (McClelland, 2001). The second fac...

In four pages this version of Arthur Miller's play is reviewed in terms of Willy Loman's character development and simplistic sett...

His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...

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...

he has always valued charisma over actual skill or knowledge. This point is shown in a flashback in which Willy asks his oldest ...

his meaningless and mind-numbing job. Ivan Ilyich becomes aware that something "new and dreadful" was happening to him, somethin...

Due to the power structures that already exist in a battering relationship, confronting marital infidelity is likely to lead to fu...

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 ...

In six pages this paper examines the tragic heroes represented by William Shakespeare's title protagonist Hamlet and Willy Loman i...

typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is someone who today would appear on The Jerry Springer Show. His life has always been dy...

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...

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...

on the socioeconomic totem pole. He has faced personal and professional adversity much of his life. He feels inferior to his old...

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...

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

shoeshine ... A salesman is got to dream, boy," says Charley, a friend of the family. Willy sees the image of himself coming apart...

II, Miller was able to show that the American Dream as a way of life is a sham -- and why. Death of a Salesman tells the story of...

and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...

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...

in his own quest to find his own American Dream, squanders an inheritance on a one-shot deal that goes bad. And in the old adage t...

by some serious flaw of character and/or judgment," with the ultimate goal being to inspire either pity or fear in the audience (K...