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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...

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

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

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...

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...

trapped. Our era has prompted most to believe that yesterdays luxuries are indeed todays necessities. By way of two acclaimed l...

In a paper consisting of six pages the influential factors that resulted in Arthur Miller's composition of the Pulitzer prize winn...

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

for the taking, he can carry on - he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in Ne...

to be popular. It can be said to be part of the human condition. But, it can also be said, that Willy Loman, the sixty something t...

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

bowling alley, she refuses to have her brother-in-law see her yet: ""Oh no, no, no. I wont be looked at in this merciless glare" (...

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...

to Bill" (Kosenko). The women, in general, accept their position as submissive in the little community and it is actually only Tes...

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

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...

leave his new bride to wage war in Cyprus. The departure, though bittersweet, returns Othello to familiar territory that renews h...

wife Linda is a very supportive, almost too supportive, wife who is always there for Willy. In many ways she may well be protectin...

for he is having an affair and in this we see him denying he is aging, and denying he is not the success he thinks he is. In essen...

takes in their own world. Even children who generally rebel against their parents will ultimately come to a point where they come ...

they alter the way in which Miller originally set up these elements. The Stage and Setting and Directions In the first product...

what he believes to be truth. He tells her, "Maybe I come into the world backwards, I dont know. But you born with two strikes on ...

truly found happiness in his small level of success. It is simply his nature to have dreamed big and ignorantly, never having poss...

for she "She breathes with motherly tenderness and love for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretche...

Willy Loman is a rather pathetic man. He is perhaps average, almost typical but maybe too stereotypical. His life had always been...