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

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...

us are perhaps afraid to pursue the thing that would make us the most happy but is likely to also be the most risky. We may fear ...

timeless quality and subject matter. It is also interesting to note that despite the plays relevance to American society, it wa...

In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...

This paper presents different attitudes regarding age as reflected in Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield, The Sandbox by Edward Alb...

"actresses" that make up the whole of the Sunday scene. She is in this mood when a young couple sit down close to her. She imagi...

Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...

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

This paper consists of five pages plus includes an outline of one page and analyzes three speeches from King Oedipus, and two spee...

'Home Burial' and 'The Death of the Hired Man' are the focus of this analysis of death themes in the poetry of Robert Frost consis...

In ten pages this paper examines Miller's scathing attacks upon social capitalism contained within his contemporary drama Death of...

In six pages this paper examines the tragic heroes represented by William Shakespeare's title protagonist Hamlet and Willy Loman i...

In three pages this report analyzes the power of the ancient Greek mythological gods in this consideration of Oedipus the King by ...