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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...

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

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...

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...

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...

This paper addresses the recent tragedy caused by the defective Firestone tires on Ford Explorers that blew out causing over one h...

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

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

topic has led noted criminologists to conclude that "...executions have no discernible effect on homicide rates" (Goertzel). There...

is not to abolish the death penalty but to "abolish the discrimination (which, he adds, favor murderers of blacks and therefore fa...

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

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

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...

30). Cheated out of his greatest desire, Troy works now as a garbage man and in middle-age, is growing increasingly bitter (Bloom)...

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

on the socioeconomic totem pole. He has faced personal and professional adversity much of his life. He feels inferior to his old...

and just let the warm air bathe over me" (Miller 14). But then he suddenly starts to run off the road: "Im tellin ya, I absolutely...

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

the others; interestingly, he is also probably the weakest character. What is Mamet doing by drenching his audiences in the F-wor...

is, if someone commits a heinous crime, they deserve a similar fate. The death penalty is sometimes not nearly as harsh as the cri...

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...

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

slowly come to a point where he realizes he is out of time and "His mind has run out of control. He is confused and no longer able...

of the language in the beginning (Miller 56). Even though he is not "the finest character that ever lived" he does deserve some re...

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

These boys are very reflective of how children will take on the traits of their father, through the insistent nature of their fath...

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...

a job he has obviously done for decades. This image is one that induces sympathy and empathy and thus presents the reader or viewe...

is silly as the family lives in New York City. And "Happy" is ridiculous; perhaps Willy thought that if he gave his son that name,...

young men. One of the great ironies of the play is that Willy has sold the boys a perverted version of the American Dream. He has ...