YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Life and Works of Arthur Miller
Essays 151 - 180
This paper presents different attitudes regarding age as reflected in Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield, The Sandbox by Edward Alb...
In seven pages this paper examines how society treated women in these respective time periods in a comparative analysis of 'The Ae...
is made immediately aware, first by the title, then by Willys revealing that he found himself driving off the road, that we are ga...
In six pages this paper examines how the American Dream, family relationships, and tragedy of Willy Loman within the context of th...
upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...
that they are constantly losing, for many losers keep plugging away. And, if they constantly plug away, with good intentions and p...
Loman in Death of a Salesman is a rather pathetic character. He is average, almost typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is som...
told him about the American Dream. It is likely that when he ages and gets to a point in his life when he has worked for many deca...
plight of small-time con-men, dubious real estate salesmen and other marginal types, explore a desperate, obsessed landscape that ...
deal of understanding in this particular line. We note that the staging is "smart" which tells us that the staging is perhaps cris...
a job he has obviously done for decades. This image is one that induces sympathy and empathy and thus presents the reader or viewe...
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...
the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...
slowly come to a point where he realizes he is out of time and "His mind has run out of control. He is confused and no longer able...
of the language in the beginning (Miller 56). Even though he is not "the finest character that ever lived" he does deserve some re...
and they are clearly the minority. In this story the majority is the ruling force, the political body which is essentially compr...
so gifted and so special that the world will fall at their feet simply because they exist (Miller). As a result, Biff and Happy (p...
to death. Proctor, who places his pride above his life, chooses to die rather than comprise his principles so Abigail, though she ...
Bush Administration and its continual claims that we were in immediate danger mirrors the climate Miller creates in his play. In t...
play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...
and fancies as Willy himself, and his wife Linda has no skills that would help her find a job; she is a housewife and has cared fo...
clearly tied to Puritan religious practice, it nevertheless also has a political dimension that was particularly apt to the era in...
and we are inside Lomans house. We read that as the light changes we are forced to see how this house looks somewhat pathetic in t...
of how they look at the world. For the two sons this image is different. Biff is the intelligent brother who is often angered a...
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...
The Crucible The student requesting this particular paper notes (the source of this quote is unknown), "One is to believe that r...
position to that of management, or even to that of an incredibly successful salesman/employee. His character was weak, and his int...
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 ...
included intelligence, depth, compassion, and integrity. It was now a dream that focused primarily on material success and the dre...