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such as Eleanor of Aquitaine ("History," 2012). Arthurs pride interferes with his sense of compassion when he sees Lancelot and ...

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, are two of American thea...

and fancies as Willy himself, and his wife Linda has no skills that would help her find a job; she is a housewife and has cared fo...

Bush Administration and its continual claims that we were in immediate danger mirrors the climate Miller creates in his play. In t...

to death. Proctor, who places his pride above his life, chooses to die rather than comprise his principles so Abigail, though she ...

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

hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...

In four pages this paper examines how Hester Prynne's and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale's daughter Pearl reflects the religious notion of...

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...

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 ...

a job he has obviously done for decades. This image is one that induces sympathy and empathy and thus presents the reader or viewe...

faults at all. In our modern society, and perhaps in the past century or so, a tragedy does not necessarily possess all those qu...

These boys are very reflective of how children will take on the traits of their father, through the insistent nature of their fath...

mean and tear down a kingdom. At least, it goes along with the logic of story-telling where there are ironic twists, villains and...

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

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

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

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

Allied side. America had the men, material and production capacity to turn out the equipment needed to overpower the Germans and e...

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

know what hes doing in the room, Milne thinks fast, pretends to be drunk, and insists that its his room: "This s 614?" he slurs; t...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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