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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...

agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

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

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...

his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...

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

through her father that Ahmed first becomes aware of the conflicting political forces that shape her world, as he is hemmed in on ...

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

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...

her better judgment, but she was initially dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her ...

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

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

to obscure her perception as to the character of the man she marries, Emma is essentially trapped in this marriage. During Flauber...

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...

society around the McCarthy trials. It should be understood that the information presented only reflects some of the possibilities...

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...

purposes of his text, Cleveland defines the "Middle East" as that region that extends from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east a...

shoeshine ... A salesman is got to dream, boy," says Charley, a friend of the family. Willy sees the image of himself coming apart...