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In five pages this paper examines the tragedy of the protagonist's failure to face his own feelings as portrayed in Arthur Miller'...

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

In five pages this character analysis of John Proctor and whether or not he was portrayed as a tragic hero in Arthur Miller's 1996...

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 ...

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

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

In five pages the aspects of autobiography as they manifest themselves in performance art are considered in a discussion of Holly ...

in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but ...

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

In eight sources this paper discusses how McCarthyism is presented in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. Six sources are cited in...

In seven pages this research paper considers parallels between the witch trials in Salem and the 'witch hunts' during the McCarthy...

sons that they need to look good, be friendly, and essentially to be what he is not. He has always possessed many different notion...

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling" (Miller, 1959, p. 487). She is convinced that she ...

as a witch. As the play progresses, suspicion grows on all sides, until the only way to stop the madness is for John to tell the ...

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...

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...

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

state. In this scene he envisions his brother telling his sons about how he had adventures and became a very rich man, a successfu...

hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...

complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....

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...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

on the socioeconomic totem pole. He has faced personal and professional adversity much of his life. He feels inferior to his old...

II, Miller was able to show that the American Dream as a way of life is a sham -- and why. Death of a Salesman tells the story of...

first time has begun to take a look at what his years of toil have produced. The comment, then, on the American...

society around the McCarthy trials. It should be understood that the information presented only reflects some of the possibilities...