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he has always valued charisma over actual skill or knowledge. This point is shown in a flashback in which Willy asks his oldest ...

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

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...

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...

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

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

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....

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

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 ...

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" (...

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

In a paper consisting of six pages the influential factors that resulted in Arthur Miller's composition of the Pulitzer prize winn...

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

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...

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, ...

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...

In twelve pages this research paper discusses the impact of aging not only on the elderly member of the family but on the family i...

This paper examines the themes of death in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Miller's, The Death of a Salesman. This five p...

In five pages the conflict between Willy Loman and his son Biff is analyzed in terms of its various causes. Two sources are cited...

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the unfulfilled expectations and how they are presented in the ideas and themes of Miller's socia...

In five pages the relationship between Willy Loman and his sons is compared with other real life relationships and discussed withi...

In five pages Miller's protagonist Willy Loman's life is compared with the American definition of capitalism and its tragic conseq...

there is an appearance of such. While Lomans life is all about lies and innuendo, Snopess emotions are simply lacking. He is just ...

In four pages this paper analyzes human dreams in a contrast and comparison of these two award winning American dramas. Two sourc...

truly found happiness in his small level of success. It is simply his nature to have dreamed big and ignorantly, never having poss...