Essays 1 - 30
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...
his meaningless and mind-numbing job. Ivan Ilyich becomes aware that something "new and dreadful" was happening to him, somethin...
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...
First, is that the play should be of serious magnitude, and have an impact on many, many people (McClelland, 2001). The second fac...
This paper examines the themes of death in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Miller's, The Death of a Salesman. This five p...
His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...
so gifted and so special that the world will fall at their feet simply because they exist (Miller). As a result, Biff and Happy (p...
young men. One of the great ironies of the play is that Willy has sold the boys a perverted version of the American Dream. He has ...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
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...
30). Cheated out of his greatest desire, Troy works now as a garbage man and in middle-age, is growing increasingly bitter (Bloom)...
on the socioeconomic totem pole. He has faced personal and professional adversity much of his life. He feels inferior to his old...
to gain his own independence despite his fathers quelling influence; however, this is never to be for the thirty-four-year-old ner...
Loman has limited intelligence or at least that seems to be the case; the point is arguable however. The story itself, as origin...
is that so many people believe in ideals like Willys. In the end, what is show is that a man with so much potential ends up losing...
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...
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...
of how they look at the world. For the two sons this image is different. Biff is the intelligent brother who is often angered a...
love, but have to ultimately abide by their previous obligations, as they are both happily married. Death of a Salesman (1985, pro...
and we are inside Lomans house. We read that as the light changes we are forced to see how this house looks somewhat pathetic in t...
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...
("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...
Loman in Death of a Salesman is a rather pathetic character. He is average, almost typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is som...
deal of understanding in this particular line. We note that the staging is "smart" which tells us that the staging is perhaps cris...
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...
play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...
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...
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...