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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...

The Miller’s Tale

some life lesson, Nicholas is trying to get Alison in bed with him, and thus also needs a lesson. There is Alison who is willing t...

Comparative Analysis of Oedipus and Willy Loman as They Relate to Aristotle’s Definition of a Tragic Hero

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

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...

Adversity in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

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

Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, as Aristotelian Tragedies

This essay offers a comparison between "Hamlet and "Death of a Salesman," which draws upon the Aristotelian criteria for tragedy....

Satire: 12th Night vs. Miller's Tale

This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale." The writer asserts that Chaucer's narrative ...

"Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller

This essay briefly summarizes the plot of MIller's play "Death of a Salesman" and then analyzes the Willy Loman's character. Three...

Miller, Williams, Fantasy and Wishful Thinking

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

Hero or Antihero Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

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...

Donaldsonian Interpretation and 'The Miller's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

entertainment or that Chaucer was simply commenting on the humorous characters and times which he experienced during his lifetime....

Jose Ortega Y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

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...

Gang Life Q and A

as Sullivan takes things a step further. He looks at males in three neighborhoods, thus enhancing the possibilities for an expanse...

Lewis Mumford, A Life by Donald Miller

gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...

Tragic Hero Represented by Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

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...

Miller and Lodge's Characterizations

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...

Setting Importance and American Dream Theme in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

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

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Social Class

a man who liked to demonstrate his position as more than it honestly was, socially speaking. "He hid his debt well. He wore daintl...

Chaucer, Deceit and Medieval Honor

The Miller's Tale and the Pardoner's Tale from Chaucers' Canterbury Tales are compared in this paper to Beowulf and Sir Gawain and...

Discussing Some of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

in turn seduce the wife and/or daughter of the miller. In the end a ridiculous fight breaks out wherein the students seem to win, ...

How Ruth Younger and Linda Loman Support Their Men

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...

Death of a Salesman and the Definition of Tragedy

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 Life and Works of Arthur Miller

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

Willy Loman and Blanche Du Bois

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" (...

Characterization in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

young boss, Howard Wagner, about easier sales work in town. However, it soon becomes apparent that Willy is to be discarded by h...

Salem Witch Trials and The Crucible by Arthur Miller

century. It is about a town, after accusations from a few girls, which begins a mad hunt for witches that did not exist" (Anonymo...

Relationship Between Biff and His Father Willy in Death of a Salesman

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

Father and Son Relationship Between Willy and Biff Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

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