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Death and the Works of Emily Dickinson

Donoghue has aptly observed that "of her religious faith virtually anything may be said, with some show of evidence. She may be r...

Walker, Pearson, Frankl, Miller, and Fromm on Identity and Meaning

In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...

Comparative Analysis of Phaedra and Jocasta

a man so much that she would do anything for him-- lie, cry, and eventually die. In many ways, Queen Jocasta submits fully...

Citizen Example of Oedipus

In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...

Death in the Poems of John Donne

In five pages this paper analyzes how the theme of death and John Donne's depression regarding death are reflected in 2 of his 'Ho...

Early Greek Theater and Ritual

In eight pages this paper discusses Greek theater's traditions, rituals, and ceremonies with Oedipus the King among the topics cov...

Mythology and Contemporary Violence

In seven pages this paper discusses past and present myths and violence with examples provided from ancient works The Aeneid, The ...

Sophocles' Oedipus the King versus The Book of Job

In a paper consisting of five pages the Book of Job is compared with Oedipus the King in terms of such issues as free will. There...

Home in Works by Arthur Miller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Pat Conroy

In eight pages this paper examines the importance of home in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel...

Arthur Miller's Plays and Women

In forty pages this paper examines how Miller does little with regards to female character development in such plays as Death of a...

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

Willy Loman as Author in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In seven pages the ways in which Death of a Salesman can be considered a reflection of playwright Arthur Miller are analyzed. Fiv...

Theater History

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

Identity Search and Death of Fathers

not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...

Stage and Setting Significance in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

deal of understanding in this particular line. We note that the staging is "smart" which tells us that the staging is perhaps cris...

Visions of Death in Emily Dickinson's Works

traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...

Mary McCarthy on the American Dream of Willy Loman

Loman in Death of a Salesman is a rather pathetic character. He is average, almost typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is som...

The Life and Works of Arthur Miller

modeled after his own life and experiences, including his relationship with the tormented Marilyn Monroe; however, Miller has neve...

Willy Loman and Blanche Du Bois

bowling alley, she refuses to have her brother-in-law see her yet: ""Oh no, no, no. I wont be looked at in this merciless glare" (...

Does Willy Loman Qualify as a Loser?

that they are constantly losing, for many losers keep plugging away. And, if they constantly plug away, with good intentions and p...

How Ruth Younger and Linda Loman Support Their Men

in his own quest to find his own American Dream, squanders an inheritance on a one-shot deal that goes bad. And in the old adage t...

Ancient Literature on the Life's Meaning of Moral Order

Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...

Fathers and Sons in the Works of Arthur Miller and William Faulkner

In five pages this research paper compares Miller's Death of a Salesman and Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' in an examination of relatio...

Elements of Tragedy in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

This paper examines 3 tragic elements in an analysis of Amanda Wingfield, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and King Oedipus of Thebes fea...

Death of a Salesman - Willy Loman and the Betrayal of the American Dream

This 6 page paper discusses the concept of true and false values in the play Death of a Salesman. The writer argues that Willy Lom...

Willy Loman's Nightmarish American Dreams

"Happy" The irony of the situation is doubled by the shadow (and what is the shadow of a dream,...

Family's Need to Earn More Money

trapped. Our era has prompted most to believe that yesterdays luxuries are indeed todays necessities. By way of two acclaimed l...

Arthur Miller's Influences for Death of a Salesman

In a paper consisting of six pages the influential factors that resulted in Arthur Miller's composition of the Pulitzer prize winn...

Fear Of Death in the Poems of Donne and Dunbar

This paper discusses ways in which death is used as an allegory or theme on Jon Donne's, Death Be Not Proud, and William Dunbar's,...

Characters and Plot from Miller, O'Connor and Plath

audience must be moved by Willy Loman, a 63-year-old man who has become tired of chasing the ever-elusive American Dream, always f...