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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...

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

to these men, as this would not only offer them security, but would allow them to establish relational bonds with their co-workers...

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

In ten pages Steinbeck's depiction of man's continuing struggles with society are examined within the context of The Grapes of Wra...

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...

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

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

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 mother Amanda, and his sister Laura retreat into their own safe havens of illusion. As one critic observed, "No matter how ur...

suspects of being promiscuous. She is a flirt and immediately begins flirting with the bunk hands. Curley, a highly volatile man, ...

feel lonely." All characters seem to have a variant of this dream as well, whether the place is, that which will allow them to b...

period scenes depicting Salinas and Soledad are reconstructed "in meticulous... detail" (Murray, 2003; Morsberger, 1993, p. 128). ...

As Lennies self-appointed protector, George emerges as the stronger of the two men. Both uneducated and largely unskilled, neithe...

won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...

In 12 pages this paper discusses how character relationships are used by Steinbeck to develop themes of self worth and responsibil...

In five pages these stories are analyzed in terms of their similarities and differences and literary elements such as themes, char...

featured performer in the action. It visually depicts why Americans have answered the call to Go West since the pioneer days. In...

as a witch. As the play progresses, suspicion grows on all sides, until the only way to stop the madness is for John to tell the ...

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...

is doing is supporting him and encouraging his dreams, although they are false. Because of this sort of set-up we are immediatel...

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

view. Wily Lomans life is riddled with failures, including the failure towards his family when Wily Loman has an affair, his work...

been so completely dependent on the perception of others. His father left his family when Willy was quite young. Consequently, he ...

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

In five pages the relationship between Willy Loman and his sons is compared with other real life relationships and discussed withi...

In five pages Miller's protagonist Willy Loman's life is compared with the American definition of capitalism and its tragic conseq...

In five pages the conflict between Willy Loman and his son Biff is analyzed in terms of its various causes. Two sources are cited...