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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...

of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indica...

play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...

This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...

nations, and they did not attract the attention of the gods. In the past few centuries, on the other hand, we have ample examples...

In six pages this paper examines how the American Dream, family relationships, and tragedy of Willy Loman within the context of th...

he has always valued charisma over actual skill or knowledge. This point is shown in a flashback in which Willy asks his oldest ...

young men. One of the great ironies of the play is that Willy has sold the boys a perverted version of the American Dream. He has ...

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

He had a good dream. Its the only dream you can have - to come out number-one man. He fought it out here, and this is where...

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...

any true vision or drive. He was, in many ways, nothing but a limited man in the position of a salesman. He could not grow with th...

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

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

faults at all. In our modern society, and perhaps in the past century or so, a tragedy does not necessarily possess all those qu...

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

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...

is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...

In five pages the sons of Willy Loman are examined in terms of their contrasting relationships with their father, their mother Lin...

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

In five pages Miller's protagonist Willy Loman's life is compared with the American definition of capitalism and its tragic conseq...

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...

his meaningless and mind-numbing job. Ivan Ilyich becomes aware that something "new and dreadful" was happening to him, somethin...

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

and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...

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

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...

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

for the taking, he can carry on - he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in Ne...