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by some serious flaw of character and/or judgment," with the ultimate goal being to inspire either pity or fear in the audience (K...

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...

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...

any true vision or drive. He was, in many ways, nothing but a limited man in the position of a salesman. He could not grow with th...

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

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

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

own social responsibility. In a way, this sense of responsibility rubbed off on Biff to the extent that he attempted to gain his ...

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

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

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

she clearly lives in the past. At the time in which the play takes place Amanda has apparently raised her two children to adulthoo...

in the direction of other family members. Outside their own room and their private conversations, however, the subjects they rais...

very opposing forces. There is an evident duality to Herakles. On the one hand, he has a compassionate side that truly wants to ...

is a true lady. She is coming to the city to stay with her sister, and her sisters husband. When she meets her sister, in a bowlin...

visit is an old school friend of the son and daughter. In the play there is a similar sense of expectation involving this man as T...

her thumb. The character description of Tom tells us that is "A poet with a job in a warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but...

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

Lye, Derrida and others, then The Glass Menagerie is a perfect play to apply this technique to, because it is full of silences, me...

Levy believes that Laura is solely focused on her vulnerability, which is symbolized by the fragility of the glass (Levy). He writ...

In four pages this paper examines how the playwright represents social issues in this 19th century dramatic play....

have so much to offer is a sad state of affairs. Laura is Amandas daughter. Laura also is forced to...

associated with the complexity of the sexual relationship, and its importance as a factor in the lives of human beings, just as Fr...

quicksand. Daisy hide a deeper meaning to her character, and that character is evil due to the unthinking nature of her superficia...

The character of Laura and the purpose she serves in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie are analyzed in a paper consisti...

is still a little to doubt that the cover up of her impending death is just not another part of her overall facade. Yet, because ...

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

This paper consists of five pages and discusses Canadian playwright Sharon Pollock's play about Lizzie Borden entitled Blood Relat...

In nine pages American dramatic realism is discussed in an analysis of Eugene O'Neill's play Desire Under Elms and Tennessee Willi...

In six pages this essay analyzes the thematic importance of props, lights, setting, and stage direction in Tennessee Williams' The...