Death of a Salesman is widely regarded by many as one of the masterpiece play of 20th century. ... Given the complex and compelling traits of the male characters in Death of a Salesman, it is surprising that Miller chose to give so little attention to the female characters. ... "marginalization of women"(Smith, Susan H.) permeates throughout the Death of a Salesman. ... Miller's "marginalization of women" (Smith, Susan H.) in the Death of a Salesman becomes more prevalent when we see the general attitude male characters have towards women. ... In many respects, I am torn between compelli...

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Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman examines the impact of American values and morals as to what constitutes "success" upon individual lives. ... He plans to become a salesman like his father. ... Ben's fortune discovering diamonds symbolizes Willy's failure as a salesman. ... In Death of a Salesman we encounter a family that has many problems and is led by a father who wants life to be perfect for him and his family, but Willy does not realize that no one has a perfect life. ... Willy Loman's technique of living out the American Dream in Arthur Miller's play De...

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Death of a Salesman in Relation to the American Dream In "Death of a Salesman" (1976) by Arthur Miller, the author describes the great tragedy which the American Dream can cause. ... All the characters throughout this play represent a part of the American Dream. ... The play Death of a Salesman occurred during the time period after World War I. ... In relation to Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman believed his sons would achieve this American Dream based on false pretenses. ... As stated in the play Death of a Salesman, I quote "Bernard can get the best marks in school, y"understand,...

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Death of a Salesman, the 1949 play by Arthur Miller, develops the ideas of conformity, popularity and materialism through repeating and contrasting elements. ... The character of Willy draws from the fact that he was abandoned when he was young. ... During the 1940's when Miller wrote Death of a Salesman these values were very prominent during this time. ... Something that Miller portrayed very well through Death of a Salesman was the fact that acceptance is more important in life compared to popularity. ... Death of a Salesman conveys Millers intricate ideas of conformity, popularity an...

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In Arthur Millers's play " The Death of a Salesman", The main character Willy Loman is a man who lives his whole life in a make believe world. ... Willy Loman is the main character/protagonist of the play. ... Even in his illusion, he cannot face the fact that he is not a good salesman. ... The death of the salesman, is truly a tragedy and negative elucidation on the unfilled American Dream. ...

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The major theme in Death of a Salesman was the pursuit of this dream. ... Arthur Miller's depiction of the American Dream in Death of a Salesman was written in postwar America. ... In the play, Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is a perfect example of someone who is trying to pursue this dream. The word "death- in the title not only refers to Willy's actual death but should also make a reference to "death- of the dream. ... Willy remains a flat character throughout the play, and his inability to cope with the changing times, ultimately, infects his whole family. ...

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Willy as Tragic Hero in Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman is the story of Willy Loman, a middle-class salesman who, in the course of a single day, comes to realise that the American Dream, which he has pursued for 40 years, has failed him. ... He always thought that a good salesman should be impressive. he is obsessed with impressions. ... In Death of a Salesman, Miller is not so much calling into question the pursuit of the American Dream, but the dream itself. For Willy, his adventurer explorer brother, Ben, and his salesman hero, Dave Singleman, are images of success, but...

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In Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," Willy Loman struggles to find success and be the role model that his sons look up to him as. ... Within Jonathan Witt's "Song of the Unsung Antihero: How Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Flatters Us", he expresses that Willy is over exaggerated and should not be considered by the audience as an anti-hero. ... And you tell me he has no character? ... Witt sums up his essay by saying that "there is a human type But we have not been given such a figure in Death of a Salesman. ... In the end, though, the inner structure of ...

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In the play Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller identifies the relationships of Willy Loman and his family. ... Willy Loman is a failed salesman in a success-oriented society. ... But I got a couple of fearless characters there" (879). ... He says that he never knew who he was because his illusions took over his true character. ... In the play Death of a Salesman, we see a number of central and significant themes being developed with Miller's skillful use of techniques such as setting and characterization. ...

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His arrogance and bogus respect crumble, just as Oedipus, giving Death of a Salesman the mark of a modern Aristotelian tragedy. ... However, if Death of a Salesman is truly a tragedy, one must ask what is behind the honors. ... When compared to the Aristotelian rubric for a classical tragedy, Death of a Salesman withstands the test. ... In the case of Death of a Salesman, Miller is .. ... Miller has captured the tragedy of the American common man in Death of a Salesman. ...

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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949, 1977) portrays a man who struggles with the task of having a good family relationship at home with his wife and two sons, and procrastinating being a successful salesman. ... The rags to riches dream never materializes, and the salesman never escapes his rags (Porter 27). ... Willy's death is a procrastination of his life. ... Death of a Salesman. ... Death of a Salesman. ...

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For the most part Death of a Salesman does not conform to the structure of the classic tragedy even though a few elements agree with the classic tragedy, namely Willy's consistency and the "Requiem" as a Greek chorus. ... This scenario is not present in Death of a Salesman since the nature of Willy's pitiful downfall does not evoke human greatness or potential. Death of a Salesman clearly does not adhere to classic requirements yet it does have some elements that point towards the classic tragedy. ... In Death of a Salesman fate and destiny are not depicted as they would be in a...

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Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" is about a traveling salesman named Willy Loman who has hit a rough patch in his life. ... As the story unfolds, the flaws that each character possesses begin to all come back to Willy, and the way that he not only thought, but lived. ...

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A Bible salesman came to visit Hulga and her mother. ... The salesman seemed to take an interest in Hulga. ... The salesman then took off her wooden leg and would not give it back to her. ... The salesman then shocked her by saying, " 'I hope you don't think that I believe in that crap! ... O'Connor's main characters' problems were not always solved. ...

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The role of conflict in "Death of a Salesman" The definition of a conflict is a struggle between a man and himself or one man with another. The main conflict in "Death of a Salesman" is Will's confusion and disappointment. ... Second, the main conflict in "Death of a Salesman" exists between Biff and his father. ... Third, Willy experiences several conflicts with other characters in the play. ... "Death of a Salesman" is a play where conflicts between man and himself and man with other man are one of the main issues in the play. ...

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Aurora of a Dream Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", has an aurora of a dream. ... The American Dream, which is a myth of success, models the events of the plot, the character and the situations. "Death of a Salesman" illustrates what most people are up against. ... Yes, Death of a Salesman is a tragedy, but Willy Loman could have prevented the outcome. ... He died "The Death of a Salesman"....

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The Disillusioned View of Reality In the drama Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller focuses on dreams versus reality as his main theme of the play. The major characters Willy, Happy, and, in part Biff, all have problems facing life and its hardships. The lead character Willy has a difficult time confronting realism in his life because of a strong desire for his dreams to be accomplished. ... Without Willy knowing that he does not live an ideal life this will inevitable lead to his death. ... There is a moral in Death of a Salesman, it is that if a person does not know who they are or view li...

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It is all but coincidental that Tennessee Williams uses this to say when furthering Blanches character. ... There, he meet a fellow coworker, Stanley Kowalshi, who would later become a main character in the drama, A Streetcar named Desire. ... Williams choked to death on a bottle cap in Hotel Elysee, located in NYC. ... This play was dwarfed only by Arthur's Death of a Salesman, which became a classic; won, not only the Drama Critic's Circle award of 1949, but also the Pulitzer Prize. ... With the expressionistic over tones, Death of Salesman remains Arthur's mostly widely ad...

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The consequences in behaviour and social observations of two main characters due to traumatic experiences When examining literature an important aspect is continuously present, the aspect of traumas and the effect of it on present lives. Traumas seem to be noticed through the way characters act and react in the novels Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller and The catcher in the rye by J.D. ... He has experienced the death and loss of his younger brother Allie, which still has a tremendous impact on him. ... In Death of a salesman Biff is one of the main characters. ... Holden's characte...

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Stories and plays such as Miss Lonelyhearts, "The Death of a Salesman", "A Streetcar Named Desire", The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Day of the Locust. ... Love and violence is clearly shown in the play, "A Streetcar Named Desire", especially with the characters Stanley and Blanche. ... This happening really destroyed Blanche and she couldn't live with the following poverty and emotional hardships following her lover's death. ... The American play "The Death of a Salesman" shows us that success should not be measured by wealth. In this play, by Arthur Miller, the main char...

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Fitzgerald's Personal Background Paralleled with the Characters in The Great Gatsby As F. ... His mother's father was a self made Irish immigrant millionaire, and his father was a salesman who married above his social class and squandered the family fortune (Reynolds 2360). ... Fitzgerald ties Ginevra in with the character of Daisy and many other women in his novels. ... The same daisy (yellow within/ white without) relates her to the books many "eggs- and implies that she is not a daisy but a rotten egg because she does not contain the seeds of life but of death (Stark 61). ......

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The Glass Managerie and Death of a Salesman are both fictional works, but are reflections on the difficulties of life. ... Characters have certain features that all contribute to the 'characters profile'. ... Each of the main characters have a meaning to their name. ... By doing this, miller creates a character that appears to be a pathetic character whom the audience pity and feel for. ... But the direction varies for each character. ...

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So is the case of Heinrich Himmler who was not only the head of Hitler's SS police, but was also in charge of the death camps in the east. Himmler's life and his impact on the rise and fall of the Nazi State is a horrifying story that brings us to the very depths of the nature of evil in the human character. ... After working briefly as a salesman for a firm of fertilizer manufactures, the young Himmler joined a para-military, right wing national organization. ... It was the task forces job to round up all the Jews and other "undesirables" living within Germany's newly c...

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May in "Greenleaf" is O'Connor's character who takes on the blinders of concealment. ... Her superiority, evolving from her degrees and her imagined ability to "see through to nothing," meets their match in Manley Pointer, the demonic Bible salesman (Country 443). ... Another of O'Connor's characters that is taken down a few rungs of superiority's is Ruby Turpin in "Revelation.... " Sheppard is an example of a parent who neglects his son as a result of disregarding his own loneliness and grief over the death of his wife. ... With his son&#...

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"Lazarillo De Tormes" The story "Lazarillo De Tormes" revolves around the life of the protagonist, Lazarillo De Tormes and divides his life in different phases, at each step focusing on his character, the hardships he underwent and the new lessons he learned: his education. ... According to Lazarillo the blind man fed him less but the priest almost starved him to death. ... (54) Lazarillo's fifth master, a salesman, didn't have much to teach him as he too was one of treacherous people and reflected the selfish and shrewd part of the world. ...

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