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did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...

In seven pages the ways in which Death of a Salesman can be considered a reflection of playwright Arthur Miller are analyzed. Fiv...

This 5 page paper discusses three plays by American playwright Arthur Miller. The three are Death of a Salesman, After the Fall an...

In forty pages this paper examines how Miller does little with regards to female character development in such plays as Death of a...

son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the w...

Loman has limited intelligence or at least that seems to be the case; the point is arguable however. The story itself, as origin...

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...

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

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...

a tragic character as he remembers events from his past and why things went wrong. Through this process, he seems to be losing tou...

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

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...

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...

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...

included intelligence, depth, compassion, and integrity. It was now a dream that focused primarily on material success and the dre...

in his own quest to find his own American Dream, squanders an inheritance on a one-shot deal that goes bad. And in the old adage t...

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

modeled after his own life and experiences, including his relationship with the tormented Marilyn Monroe; however, Miller has neve...

bowling alley, she refuses to have her brother-in-law see her yet: ""Oh no, no, no. I wont be looked at in this merciless glare" (...

Loman in Death of a Salesman is a rather pathetic character. He is average, almost typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is som...

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

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...

deal of understanding in this particular line. We note that the staging is "smart" which tells us that the staging is perhaps cris...

brother, his time away from home when he worked on ranches where he states, "theres nothing more inspiring or-beautiful than the s...

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

told him about the American Dream. It is likely that when he ages and gets to a point in his life when he has worked for many deca...

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