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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...

the others; interestingly, he is also probably the weakest character. What is Mamet doing by drenching his audiences in the F-wor...

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

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...

to Bill" (Kosenko). The women, in general, accept their position as submissive in the little community and it is actually only Tes...

watch these plays we see not only human frailty, but the workings of fate. Consider Oedipus: he killed his father and married his ...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

is true that Greek culture allowed infanticide via death by exposure, this custom was typically reserved for girls and babies with...

and just let the warm air bathe over me" (Miller 14). But then he suddenly starts to run off the road: "Im tellin ya, I absolutely...

starts out dealing with death simply enough. The family cat is killed by a car on the highway. The neighbor asks "Louis if hed lik...

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

to gain his own independence despite his fathers quelling influence; however, this is never to be for the thirty-four-year-old ner...

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...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

love, but have to ultimately abide by their previous obligations, as they are both happily married. Death of a Salesman (1985, pro...

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...

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...

Loman has limited intelligence or at least that seems to be the case; the point is arguable however. The story itself, as origin...

finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...

to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...

may very well lie in the study of some of the most earliest of heroes from the texts of Homer and Plato. By far one of the most en...

the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...

rules that serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Willy had no moral code. He worshiped m...

to be popular. It can be said to be part of the human condition. But, it can also be said, that Willy Loman, the sixty something t...

a tragic character as he remembers events from his past and why things went wrong. Through this process, he seems to be losing tou...