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included intelligence, depth, compassion, and integrity. It was now a dream that focused primarily on material success and the dre...

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...

to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

he is only concerned with whether or not a given plan can be called a "million dollar idea" (Miller 2012). Despite signs that Biff...

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...

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

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

In a paper that consists of three pages the elements of these plays are examined in terms of similarities and differences in order...

"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

the son of King Polybus and Queen Merope. After learning that he was not their true son, Oedipus set out to find his real parents...

In six pages this essay discusses how Oedipus would have been more content without the knowledge of his fated life in this themati...

In 5 pages this paper compares how these topics are thematically depicted in these plays. There are 4 sources cited in the biblio...

Willy Loman is a rather pathetic man. He is perhaps average, almost typical but maybe too stereotypical. His life had always been...

In six pages this essay analyzes the many themes Miller incorporated into his play that is frequently misunderstood as a result of...

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

play, wants this to the exclusion of reality. At the beginning of the play it becomes apparent that Willy is in trouble. Suffering...

that his old manager would have given him a promotion. Now, in all honesty, we do not know that Frank would have promoted Willy at...

excuses for that sons pathological misbehavior; he virtually ignores his second son; hes a real bastard to friends, neighbors and ...

His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...

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...

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...