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of "six rooms and a pile of clapboard, a sad comedown from the sixth floor splendor of Central Park North" (Gottfried 12). They li...
his mother Queen Gertrude announces she eloped with Claudius, her brother-in-law who will now succeed Hamlet Sr. as King. The Pri...
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, are two of American thea...
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...
sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....
things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...
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 ...
three months after the murder of her husband. In Measure for Measure, its protagonist is not a man of illustrious social status. ...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
sons that they need to look good, be friendly, and essentially to be what he is not. He has always possessed many different notion...
30). Cheated out of his greatest desire, Troy works now as a garbage man and in middle-age, is growing increasingly bitter (Bloom)...
on the socioeconomic totem pole. He has faced personal and professional adversity much of his life. He feels inferior to his old...
is silly as the family lives in New York City. And "Happy" is ridiculous; perhaps Willy thought that if he gave his son that name,...
ever written, and it continues to excite audiences because of Shakespeares masterful examination of the psychological aspects of i...
Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...
the Tony, the Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. It is a classic of the American theater and remains popular in performa...
were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...
and fancies as Willy himself, and his wife Linda has no skills that would help her find a job; she is a housewife and has cared fo...
the others; interestingly, he is also probably the weakest character. What is Mamet doing by drenching his audiences in the F-wor...
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...
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...
state. In this scene he envisions his brother telling his sons about how he had adventures and became a very rich man, a successfu...
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...
of the language in the beginning (Miller 56). Even though he is not "the finest character that ever lived" he does deserve some re...
of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...
has credible reasons for his melancholy state, as his father has been dead only two months, and his mother has already remarried. ...
brother, his time away from home when he worked on ranches where he states, "theres nothing more inspiring or-beautiful than the s...