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Death of a Salesman/Pursuit of Happyness

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

Tragic Hero Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

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

Pursuit of Happyness/Book and Film

having Christopher older, and therefore capable of understanding valuable life lessons, made it possible to dramatize the scene th...

Life Lessons in Classic Literature

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...

Questions on Death of a Salesman Answered

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

"Death of a Salesman" as an Analogy for the Death of the American Dream

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...

Death of a Salesman's Willy Loman as a Poor Role Model for Biff and Happy

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...

Two Playwrights Look at Death

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...

Comparison of Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

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

Tragic Heroes Prince Hamlet and Willy Loman

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

Characters and Plot from Miller, O'Connor and Plath

audience must be moved by Willy Loman, a 63-year-old man who has become tired of chasing the ever-elusive American Dream, always f...

Compare and Contrast Two Arthur Miller Plays

This 6 page paper discusses the Arthur Miller plays Death of a Salesman and A View from the Bridge. The writer argues that in both...

Literary Considerations of Greed

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

The Theme of Tragedy in Oedipus the King and Death of a Salesman

This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...

Fiction and the Portrayal of Management Leadership

In nine pages this paper examines the leadership of characters depicted in 'The Moviegoer' by Percy, 'Shooting an Elephant' by Orw...

Arthur Miller, William Shakespeare, Sophocles and Consideration of the Individual and Fate

In 5 pages this paper examines the individual and a fate he cannot control in an analysis of Death of a Salesman, Macbeth, and Oed...

American Dream of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Prize as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award when it was produced and published in 1949....

The Myth of the American Family as Discredited in Death of a Salesman and An American Beauty

play, if we only look at the man, Willy Loman, and examine him from his perspective, concerning his hopes and desires for himself ...

Meaning of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

sons, one in particular, following in his footsteps, not necessarily as a salesman, but as a working class man such as himself. Wi...

Accidental Infidel Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

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

Literary Women in Ancient Rome and in the 20th Century

In seven pages this paper examines how society treated women in these respective time periods in a comparative analysis of 'The Ae...

Classification of a Tragic Hero and Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In five pages this research paper discusses the tragic hero classification as applied to Arthur Miller's Willy Loman common man pr...

Comparative Analysis of Arthur Miller's Characters Willy Loman and John Proctor

This paper consists of 5 pages and contrasts and compares the protagonists John Proctor and Willy Loman as featured in Arthur Mill...

Death of a Salesman - Willy Loman and the Betrayal of the American Dream

This 6 page paper discusses the concept of true and false values in the play Death of a Salesman. The writer argues that Willy Lom...

Fathers and Sons in the Works of Arthur Miller and William Faulkner

In five pages this research paper compares Miller's Death of a Salesman and Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' in an examination of relatio...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on the Stage and on TV

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

Willy Loman's Nightmarish American Dreams

"Happy" The irony of the situation is doubled by the shadow (and what is the shadow of a dream,...

Arthur Miller's Influences for Death of a Salesman

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

Examining Three Plays by Arthur Miller

This 5 page paper discusses three plays by American playwright Arthur Miller. The three are Death of a Salesman, After the Fall an...

Arthur Miller's Plays and Women

In forty pages this paper examines how Miller does little with regards to female character development in such plays as Death of a...