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In five pages the three power wielding groups of the desire for emancipation for women, the false witchcraft accusations by girls,...

In six pages the play and its meaning are discussed within a contrasting context of what it meant to 1950s audiences and what it m...

In an essay consisting of five pages John Proctor's self sacrifice and the inspiration it represents in love's power to withstand ...

have adopted something of a double standard. They have expected her to behave in the modest and subservient way which is usual for...

there seems to be an appeal to false authority. The fact that officials in the town deem someone a witch, and that they determine ...

tension in the play, which is by changing historical detail to create greater dramatic tension. The historical Abigail Williams, w...

when Americans were accusing each other of Pro-Communist beliefs. Many of Millers friends were being attacked as communists and i...

the waging of war, but by the ability to wage war; not necessarily by the demonstration of our defense capabilities, but by the vi...

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

shoeshine ... A salesman is got to dream, boy," says Charley, a friend of the family. Willy sees the image of himself coming apart...

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...

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...

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

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

of the American Dream with Benjamin Franklin who seemed to prove that through honest and hard work an individual could find succes...

of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indica...

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

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

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

them dream jobs. They are vivid, vibrant characters, though they are not especially likeable, and its easy to see that the life ha...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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" (...

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...

by some serious flaw of character and/or judgment," with the ultimate goal being to inspire either pity or fear in the audience (K...