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conflict, if the truth were told more chaos would erupt and more confusion that would demand the townspeople look at honesty and t...

the whole town ultimately. Abigail is the main character and she is the one who instigates, or illuminates, the behaviors of all...

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...

and they are clearly the minority. In this story the majority is the ruling force, the political body which is essentially compr...

clearly tied to Puritan religious practice, it nevertheless also has a political dimension that was particularly apt to the era in...

In this six papge paper the writer explores Miller's autobiography and emphasizes his contributions to American theater. His cont...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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...

In five pages Arthur Miller's social drama is analyzed in its portrayal of post World War II family values as they existed in the ...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 five pages this character analysis of John Proctor and whether or not he was portrayed as a tragic hero in Arthur Miller's 1996...

He is someone who today would appear on the Jerry Springer Show. His life had always been dysfunctional and all he ever wanted was...

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

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...