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

Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...

353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...

In five pages the aspects of autobiography as they manifest themselves in performance art are considered in a discussion of Holly ...

in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but ...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...