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is that so many people believe in ideals like Willys. In the end, what is show is that a man with so much potential ends up losing...

and new trends. He could not open his mind to new ideas concerning anything, including his family. In essence, he was a man with a...

a tragic character as he remembers events from his past and why things went wrong. Through this process, he seems to be losing tou...

we know Frank would have fired him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for...

importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...

us are perhaps afraid to pursue the thing that would make us the most happy but is likely to also be the most risky. We may fear ...

timeless quality and subject matter. It is also interesting to note that despite the plays relevance to American society, it wa...

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

starts out dealing with death simply enough. The family cat is killed by a car on the highway. The neighbor asks "Louis if hed lik...

she has the red girls attention, she dumps Gwen. She is always looking for the greener grass on the other side, and...

to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...

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...

rules that serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Willy had no moral code. He worshiped m...

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...

not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...

deal of understanding in this particular line. We note that the staging is "smart" which tells us that the staging is perhaps cris...

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...

death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...

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

traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...

Loman in Death of a Salesman is a rather pathetic character. He is average, almost typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is som...

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...

Luciano would bring the Mafia into the modern age, putting the group into organized crime. Out of the ruins of the Masseria and Ma...

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

faults at all. In our modern society, and perhaps in the past century or so, a tragedy does not necessarily possess all those qu...

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

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

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