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The Way in Which Sundiata and Beowulf Present Heroism

The writer compares and contrasts the Old English poem Beowulf with Sundiata, which is an African epic. The writer argues that whi...

The Shape of Heroism

Using examples from literature and from world events, this essay identifies some of the heroes everyone knows and those nobody kno...

Heroism in the Ancient World: Gilgamesh and Achilles

This essay pertains to the characters of Gilgamesh and Achilles and how they each warrior-heroes representing their culture. The w...

Heroism and the Life Example of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

into insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In h...

'War is Kind' and 'A Mystery of Heroism' by Stephen Crane

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

Heroism in the Epic of Gilgamesh

boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...

Honesty in “The Crucible”

conflict, if the truth were told more chaos would erupt and more confusion that would demand the townspeople look at honesty and t...

Human Failing: Miller’s The Crucible

the whole town ultimately. Abigail is the main character and she is the one who instigates, or illuminates, the behaviors of all...

Submissive Women: Jackson, Miller, and Steinbeck

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

"The Zimmerman Telegram"

Allied side. America had the men, material and production capacity to turn out the equipment needed to overpower the Germans and e...

Fathers: Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie

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...

Death of a Salesman and the American Dream

of the American Dream with Benjamin Franklin who seemed to prove that through honest and hard work an individual could find succes...

John Proctor in "The Crucible": Moral Dilemma

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

Arthur Miller’s Importance in Today’s Literary Canon

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...

John Proctor in The Crucible: A Moral Dilemma

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 ...

Arthur Hailey and his "Hotel"

know what hes doing in the room, Milne thinks fast, pretends to be drunk, and insists that its his room: "This s 614?" he slurs; t...

Biff in Death of a Salesman

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

Linda in Death of a Salesman

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...

John Proctor, a Tragic Hero

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

Would Aristotle Label Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman as a Tragedy?

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

"Death of a Salesman" as an Analogy for the Death of the American Dream

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...

Miller’s Death of a Salesman/A Greek Tragedy

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

Miller, Hughes, and Baldwin

play about a man who had everything but was still unhappy. Then there was the infamous Death of a Salesman, which is clearly a sto...

Man and Nature in Death of a Salesman

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

Language in Miller and Mamet’s Plays

of the language in the beginning (Miller 56). Even though he is not "the finest character that ever lived" he does deserve some re...

Fantasy: Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie

slowly come to a point where he realizes he is out of time and "His mind has run out of control. He is confused and no longer able...

Willy Loman, Not a Tragic Hero

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

Questions on Death of a Salesman Answered

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

The Aftermath of the Arthur Andersen Scandal

Chicago to suggest to Houstons firm partners that it was fine to shred documents and delete any e-mails related to the Enron case ...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Biff's Life Lessons

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