YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Self Sacrifice in The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Essays 31 - 60
In this six papge paper the writer explores Miller's autobiography and emphasizes his contributions to American theater. His cont...
In eleven pages this paper compares each work in terms of the social divisions and corruptions they represent. There are various ...
Ini six pages this paper first examines the playwright's life and effects of the Great Depression on Miller and his writings and t...
there seems to be an appeal to false authority. The fact that officials in the town deem someone a witch, and that they determine ...
tension in the play, which is by changing historical detail to create greater dramatic tension. The historical Abigail Williams, w...
have adopted something of a double standard. They have expected her to behave in the modest and subservient way which is usual for...
first time has begun to take a look at what his years of toil have produced. The comment, then, on the American...
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...
dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...
for the taking, he can carry on - he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in Ne...
importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...
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...
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...
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...
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...
and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...
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...
shoeshine ... A salesman is got to dream, boy," says Charley, a friend of the family. Willy sees the image of himself coming apart...
condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...
His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...
brother, his time away from home when he worked on ranches where he states, "theres nothing more inspiring or-beautiful than the s...
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...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...
audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...
sons that they need to look good, be friendly, and essentially to be what he is not. He has always possessed many different notion...
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...
on the socioeconomic totem pole. He has faced personal and professional adversity much of his life. He feels inferior to his old...