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In six pages this essay evaluates Miller's play based upon Aristotle's tragic components to conclude that Death of a Salesman is i...

more and more about Willys life, than it is not some innate tragic flaw in his character which has led to his misfortune, but a co...

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling" (Miller, 1959, p. 487). She is convinced that she ...

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...

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...

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

Somewhat surprisingly, I find this very difficult to do. This suggests to me that stress and tension, constantly worrying and thin...

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...

In six pages this creative essay examines an event in which a college student had to defend beliefs and this experience is related...

This five page essay examines the film by Brian DePalma in reference to the social crime theories of Walter B. Miller. This film ...

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...

In five pages the differences and similarities of these plays are discussed in an examination of whether Wilson's work is an Afric...

In five pages the insecurities and self doubts that plague Miller's protagonist are considered and how his relationships are affec...

In five pages Miller's contention that 'tragedy is the conscience of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly' is analy...

In five pages the concept of the functional family is defined and then contrasted with the dysfunctions exhibited by the Loman cla...