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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...
brother, his time away from home when he worked on ranches where he states, "theres nothing more inspiring or-beautiful than the s...
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...
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...
of the language in the beginning (Miller 56). Even though he is not "the finest character that ever lived" he does deserve some re...
sons that they need to look good, be friendly, and essentially to be what he is not. He has always possessed many different notion...
This essay pertains to "Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller" and presents a complete overview of the play that discusses its feat...
and fancies as Willy himself, and his wife Linda has no skills that would help her find a job; she is a housewife and has cared fo...
birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...
This paper presents different attitudes regarding age as reflected in Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield, The Sandbox by Edward Alb...
In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...
In ten pages this report discusses the play's tragic characteristics that exist despite its twentieth century setting and the ways...
This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...
In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Willy Loman and his struggles represent the definitive tragic hero are explo...
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...
he has always valued charisma over actual skill or knowledge. This point is shown in a flashback in which Willy asks his oldest ...
intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...
have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...
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...
In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...
his meaningless and mind-numbing job. Ivan Ilyich becomes aware that something "new and dreadful" was happening to him, somethin...
In five pages this character analysis of John Proctor and whether or not he was portrayed as a tragic hero in Arthur Miller's 1996...
his mother." With these words in the introduction which gives us the background to the story (Sophocles, Argument). This tragic...
In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...
In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...
complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...
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...