All My Sons

his play ' ' Death of a Salesman ' ' in China. In this interview Arthur Miller tells how hard it was to rehearse the play in China. There was only one actor who understood English. After all, he said: "the play was built around very fundamental family emotions which expand out into society. The Chinese, after all, are practically inventors of the family ' ' (Oka). Miller was sure that the Chinese public will perceive his play with the right understanding, will try to see something in common…

family. (Schultz, 2010, para. 7). Willy has his wife and sons’ admiration but chooses not to see or at least admit to his neglect of his family’s feelings. The dramatic irony of Willy’s flashbacks of his brother Ben show that Willy chose the life he is living originally in support of his family and with good motives by his statement, “No, Ben, Ben, can't, can't we talk? I have a, a solid position here but I feel sort of temporary about myself and my boys.” (Segel, Melnick, & Susskind, n.d.,…

The Man Who Had All the Luck, his 1940 play, was closed after just four measly performances in the wake of several dreadful reviews. However, six years later, he achieved a great deal of success on Broadway with All My Sons, which allowed him to earn his first Tony Award for best author. Working in his own small Roxbury studio, “Miller wrote the first act of Death of a…

For Willy, his adventurer / explorer brother, Ben, and his salesman hero, Dave Singleman, are images of success, but the character of Ben is fantastical and the achievements of Dave are idealised and exaggerated. Using these as his benchmarks, Willy can never achieve the success he so desperately craves. Through a series of flashbacks in the play, where we witness Willy's persistent efforts to make the American Dream a reality for himself and his family, Miller launches a scathing attack on the…

In the third dream, he puts the belief into his sons that are Biff and Happy. Then, he wants his sons to help himself achieve his desire through the American Dream like Ben. According to the play, Willy Loman says about Ben: “That man was a genius, that man was success incarnate” which shows he really respects Ben and wants…

In "Quitters,Inc." by Stephen King's short story follows the life of an everyday man, Dick Morrison and how his life will be turn upside down with his choice of stop smoking and the results are terrifying. Stephen King's most powerful use of foreshadowing is the card where both cards appear in the beginning of the story and the end of the story. In Stephen King's short story smoking is a symbole of depression." Quitters, Inc., was in a new building where the monthly rent on the office space…

Arthur miller was born in the year 1915 in Harlem, New York. His father owned a coat manufacturing business but unfortunately the business didn’t last and lost almost everything in 1929. And because of this he and his family had to move to Flatbush, Brooklyn. He attended the University of Michigan. During his time in college he won the school’s Avery Hopwood Award for his first play, No Villain. After this he moved back East to pursue his career as a playwright. And soon after that he married…

Just Mercy, A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, and All American Boys by Jason Reynolds are connected by the theme and moral lessons each novel puts forward. Just Mercy, is written from the viewpoint of Mr. Stevenson as he goes through many people's cases trying to give them the justice they deserve. All American Boys is the story of a young teenage boy who is beaten up by a cop because it is believed he is stealing a bag of chips. Although the storylines of these two stories…

experienced by all the characters in the world of the play. The only person who experiences time differently in the play is Willy, whose mind straddles present time and his memories.…

For example, the character Willy Loman, when he discusses his American dreams to his sons, Biff and Happy. In ‘Death of a Salesman’ while reassuring Happy, Biff and himself, Willy claims that he is going to be “Bigger than Uncle Charley! Because Uncle Charley is not-liked. He’s liked, but he’s not-well liked” (Miller 1277). Even though…