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. ... Willy's inability to escape from a fantasy existence and accept his average existence lead to his death. ... Without Willy knowing that he does not live an ideal life this will inevitable lead to his death. ... Biff did this to make his father feel proud of him and to make it known that he is loved. ... There is a moral in Death of a Salesman, it is that if a person does not know who they are or view life from the perspective of reality ...

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This is a standard issue in society today; whether free will exists or whether we live in a trapped world where we can not do what we want to in destiny or where we can't do something whether we put our minds to it or not. ... said Ernest, running, I fell just as she gored me to my death." ... Whether this person was real or not I believe Masters does not believe in free will because if he did then he would not have included a poem like this or a poem that ends in a death with such a strong comment during the death of Roger. ... It may have been a simple wish but it is one tha...

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There is nothing - no excuses, no plea for forgiveness, no last minute stay of execution - that will help me escape this sentence of death. ... It's a strange feeling to know the day, hour and precise minute of your own death. ... I was so proud and satisfied that the first half of my plan worked out so well. ... An officer told me that I was the last person to give him a call before his death. ... She did not stopped though. ...

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It appeared that the option was available for Socrates to renounce his faith and go free, instead of continuing to practice philosophy and question Greece until he upset the wrong people and was put to death. ... Socrates agrees with this notion by his sheer will to follow the oracle's tidings, even if it ultimately means his death. ... However, this did not happen (but wouldn't that make a cool philosophy/sci-fi novel?). ... Socrates, in standing by what he believes in instead of looking at the individual matter of the court's ignorance, and playing it safe in ord...

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If he were to make decisions based on his desire not have people get hurt or killed, his goals would most likely not be met. ... Shall I tell them or not?" ... Also, later on at Katerina's funeral, he thinks to himself that "the thought of death and the presence of death had something oppressive and mysteriously awful", but yet he was capable of murdering two women. Emotionally he may not like the presence of death, but his intellectual side was telling him to kill the women for his own theory. ... He is too proud to admit that he is afraid, so he puts on his superior attitude to fool...

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In Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover," the author takes us inside the mind of a madman who reveals the dark side of human nature, and how death is twisted into a demented form of compassion. ... The man is absolutely crazy and could not let her go, so rather than enjoying the evening and future encounters, he chooses to brutally strangle her by wrapping her hair around her neck. ... This is best explained in the key passage: "Happy and proud; at last I knew/ Porphyria worshipped me; surprise/ Made my heart swell, and still it grew/ While I debated what to do./ That ...

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You may not realize that you are perceiving those other voices, but you really are. ... Such taboos would be sex, which is often the most common focus of advertisers, death, incest, homosexuality, and sometimes even pagan icons. ... The newer cover does not display a castle on it. ... The Picture on the left shows a man standing proudly with his genitalia erect. ... He has said that "these images do not appear by accident, coincidence, or as the work of an individual artist. ...

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