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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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