YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Power in The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Essays 31 - 60
to death. Proctor, who places his pride above his life, chooses to die rather than comprise his principles so Abigail, though she ...
Bush Administration and its continual claims that we were in immediate danger mirrors the climate Miller creates in his play. In t...
In this six papge paper the writer explores Miller's autobiography and emphasizes his contributions to American theater. His cont...
In eleven pages this paper compares each work in terms of the social divisions and corruptions they represent. There are various ...
there seems to be an appeal to false authority. The fact that officials in the town deem someone a witch, and that they determine ...
have adopted something of a double standard. They have expected her to behave in the modest and subservient way which is usual for...
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...
II, Miller was able to show that the American Dream as a way of life is a sham -- and why. Death of a Salesman tells the story of...
and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...
condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...
His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...
brother, his time away from home when he worked on ranches where he states, "theres nothing more inspiring or-beautiful than the s...
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...
dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...
importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...
own social responsibility. In a way, this sense of responsibility rubbed off on Biff to the extent that he attempted to gain his ...
to gain his own independence despite his fathers quelling influence; however, this is never to be for the thirty-four-year-old ner...
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...
for the taking, he can carry on - he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in Ne...
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...
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...
sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....
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...
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...
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 ...