Theme of Death/Death Essay

honour varies by culture and even by individual. Gabriel García Márquez wrote Chronicle of a Death Foretold to reflect the actions and responses of Colombian society to the event of murder. Describing the murder of Santiago Nasar, Chronicle of a Death Foretold depicts the significance of honour in Colombian culture and society. Márquez argues that: honour and marriage customs led to Santiago Nasar’s death, what a family in the Vicario’s position had to do in order to regain honour, and how…

Death is inevitable and while one can attempt to prolong life, death will always overtake in the end. The Middle Ages brought terror upon the people due to the bubonic plague and the death that followed the sickness. During this time, people channeled their fears into their artwork, literature, and music. Edgar Allan Poe, a nineteenth-century writer, had many of the women in his life die and, as a result, wrote many short stories and poems with gloomy tones. His short story “The Masque of the…

quintessential lifestyle many yearn to live. However, many overlook the associating sense of delusion and deception that corresponds amongst it, resulting from the excessive fantasizing of prospective wealth, and this mindset is truly apparent in the novel, Death of a Salesman. The novel was written in 1949, the pinnacle of the hysteria surrounding the American Dream, an era prevalent with people striving to fulfill their lifelong ambitions of opulence. It portrays the Lomans, a run of the mill…

The Qing and Li in The Death of Ivan Ilych The Death of Ivan Ilych, depicts an indifferent and selfish world, is a brilliant work written by Leo Tolstoy. Through this short novel, and through the mental struggle of Ivan Ilych before his death, Leo Tolstoy argues for the essentiality of authenticity and compassion of people. His thought resembles the central idea of the essay On the Childlike Mind written by Li Zhi, a Chinese philosopher from Ming Dynasty. On the Childlike Mind argues for the…

In Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller, the main character is a man named Willy Loman. He has two worthless sons and an enabler wife. In the playbook Willy is facing some tough times at his age; losing his mind, job, and control with reality. However his obsession with material wealth and popularity prevent him from achieving true happiness in his life. In Death of a Salesman, the setting is based on a family household, surrounded by apartment buildings. Willy Loman is a salesman who…

Thematic Statement: Biff, Willy, and Happy’s senses of identity in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman portrays the idea that immoral actions taken with doubt and the fear of not being able to attain financial success, results in an inability to achieve their hopes and dreams. Under the frivolous American dream Willy has built, Biff’s idea of success manifests as a man who achieves great financial value on the basis that one is superficially attractive instead of attaining personal prosperity…

Success, Passion, and the American Dream in Death of a Salesman As protagonist Willy Loman tumbles down the stairs of despair and defeat, Arthur Miller seizes the moment and masterfully crafts his 1949 Pulitzer Prize winning play: Death of a Salesman (Charters 1428). Miller creates an environment that reflects mid-twentieth century America and establishes characters that are frighteningly realistic. The Loman family as a whole is the central source of theme in the play. Their struggles as a…

“Death of a Salesman” written by Arthur Miller is a short story about two characters, Willy Loman and his son Biff Loman. At the beginning of the story, Willy and Linda, Willy’s wife, talk to each other about Willy finding a job close to his home city, New York, since Linda is worried about Willy’s because he had an accident. Willy feels happy when he imagines about the past the past when his son, Biff, was a quarterback with potential to make it to professional level. Willy and Biff have…

Death of a Salesman depicts the loss of the American Dream and loss of self. This American Dream is built upon the ideas that anyone can thrive in life by doing what they love. Throughout the book, this idea is challenged by the capitalistic ideology of making money. Willy also believes that no longer require studying to have a successful life and all that is needed are connections in order to get anywhere. These thoughts are killing the American Dream and slowly corrupting people’s…

Love is a destructive force. This is the common theme shared by the story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the ancient Roman text The Aeneid by Vergil. The deer and fire imagery that highlights the disastrous love of Dido and Aeneas is referenced through Victor Frankenstein. Both texts comment on powerful emotions and unavoidable fate. The tragedy itself begins with the realization that love is painful. In the Aeneid, Dido doesn’t realize how strong her feelings for Aeneas are until it’s too…