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

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

Introduction For anyone who has read any of Arthur Millers work, or seen any of his plays, there can be little doubt that he was ...

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...

from Millers uncle: "As Arthur Miller tells it, the writing of Death of a Salesman began in the winter of 1946/47 with a chance me...

them dream jobs. They are vivid, vibrant characters, though they are not especially likeable, and its easy to see that the life ha...

to Bill" (Kosenko). The women, in general, accept their position as submissive in the little community and it is actually only Tes...

life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...

His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

soreness of his palms...then carries his case out into the living-room...Im tired to death" he tells his wife (Miller 12-13). Hi...

shoeshine ... A salesman is got to dream, boy," says Charley, a friend of the family. Willy sees the image of himself coming apart...

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

and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very simple beginning, a beginning that sets...

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...

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

In five pages this lighthearted sample of creative writing involving a student's dorm roommate, a beloved pet cockroach....

his mother Amanda, and his sister Laura retreat into their own safe havens of illusion. As one critic observed, "No matter how ur...

complex, contradictory, evasive, independent and liquid modernity . . . (that) . . . ushers in the Jazz Age" (Basu 93). The Jazz A...

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

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Herman Melville uses the novel to discuss how nature's laws do not always pr...