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from Millers uncle: "As Arthur Miller tells it, the writing of Death of a Salesman began in the winter of 1946/47 with a chance me...

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

the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...

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...

may very well lie in the study of some of the most earliest of heroes from the texts of Homer and Plato. By far one of the most en...

any true vision or drive. He was, in many ways, nothing but a limited man in the position of a salesman. He could not grow with th...

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...

first time has begun to take a look at what his years of toil have produced. The comment, then, on the American...

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

importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...

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...

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" (...

state. In this scene he envisions his brother telling his sons about how he had adventures and became a very rich man, a successfu...

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...

sons that they need to look good, be friendly, and essentially to be what he is not. He has always possessed many different notion...

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...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

Introduction For anyone who has read any of Arthur Millers work, or seen any of his plays, there can be little doubt that he was ...

This essay offers a comparison between "Hamlet and "Death of a Salesman," which draws upon the Aristotelian criteria for tragedy....

In five pages this research paper examines the play's themes and discusses typical productions of Miller's social drama. There ar...

This five page essay examines the film by Brian DePalma in reference to the social crime theories of Walter B. Miller. This film ...

In five pages this paper discusses the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet's play in terms of plot and performance....

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

entertainment or that Chaucer was simply commenting on the humorous characters and times which he experienced during his lifetime....

were full of all the fire and brimstone of a religious fanatic. Whenever evil would cross his path, such as in the form of an omi...

conscience. Said Macbeth: "One cried "God Bless us! And "Amen!" the other, as they had seen me with these hangmans hands. Listning...

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...