YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Life and Works of Arthur Miller
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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 ...
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...
complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...
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...
hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...
sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....
strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling" (Miller, 1959, p. 487). She is convinced that she ...
as a witch. As the play progresses, suspicion grows on all sides, until the only way to stop the madness is for John to tell the ...
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 ...
His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...
conflict, if the truth were told more chaos would erupt and more confusion that would demand the townspeople look at honesty and t...
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...
the whole town ultimately. Abigail is the main character and she is the one who instigates, or illuminates, the behaviors of all...
Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...
condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...
In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...
In seven pages this research paper considers parallels between the witch trials in Salem and the 'witch hunts' during the McCarthy...
In eight sources this paper discusses how McCarthyism is presented in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. Six sources are cited in...
for the taking, he can carry on - he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in Ne...
importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...