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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...

He is someone who today would appear on the Jerry Springer Show. His life had always been dysfunctional and all he ever wanted was...

In five pages Arthur Miller's social drama is analyzed in its portrayal of post World War II family values as they existed in the ...

told him about the American Dream. It is likely that when he ages and gets to a point in his life when he has worked for many deca...

finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...

is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...

In a paper consisting of 6 pages the destructive relationship between father and son is examined in terms of the father's warped s...

In five pages the sons of Willy Loman are examined in terms of their contrasting relationships with their father, their mother Lin...

In five pages the concept of the functional family is defined and then contrasted with the dysfunctions exhibited by the Loman cla...

In five pages Miller's protagonist Willy Loman's life is compared with the American definition of capitalism and its tragic conseq...

his meaningless and mind-numbing job. Ivan Ilyich becomes aware that something "new and dreadful" was happening to him, somethin...

more and more about Willys life, than it is not some innate tragic flaw in his character which has led to his misfortune, but a co...

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

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

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

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

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

of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indica...

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...

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

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...

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

353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...

in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but ...

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...

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...

by some serious flaw of character and/or judgment," with the ultimate goal being to inspire either pity or fear in the audience (K...

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" (...