YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Crucible by Arthur Miller and Its Meaning to 1950s and Contemporary Audiences
Essays 61 - 90
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...
them dream jobs. They are vivid, vibrant characters, though they are not especially likeable, and its easy to see that the life ha...
to Bill" (Kosenko). The women, in general, accept their position as submissive in the little community and it is actually only Tes...
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...
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...
audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...
on the socioeconomic totem pole. He has faced personal and professional adversity much of his life. He feels inferior to his old...
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...
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 ...
This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...
trapped. Our era has prompted most to believe that yesterdays luxuries are indeed todays necessities. By way of two acclaimed l...
In a paper consisting of six pages the influential factors that resulted in Arthur Miller's composition of the Pulitzer prize winn...
by some serious flaw of character and/or judgment," with the ultimate goal being to inspire either pity or fear in the audience (K...
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...
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...
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...
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...
dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...
first time has begun to take a look at what his years of toil have produced. The comment, then, on the American...
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...
Loman has limited intelligence or at least that seems to be the case; the point is arguable however. The story itself, as origin...
importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...
shoeshine ... A salesman is got to dream, boy," says Charley, a friend of the family. Willy sees the image of himself coming apart...