Arthur Symons

Salesman” by Arthur Miller. In the play success alludes the Loman family despite that fact that it is something that they aim to achieve in their own ways. There are probably a number of reasons for this but this paper will look at how expectations and responsibility or the lack of responsibility can have a negative effect on a person’s life and how it could have been the contributing factor to the family not achieving the American dream that Willy and his wife Linda wanted. Arthur Miller was…

The Tragedy of War All 108 pages of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies has a bounty of symbols. Some as large as the allegory of the entire book, and some as small as the glasses on someone’s face. Though many of the symbols are similar and blend together, each one in Lord of the Flies serves its own unique purpose. Together, all of the symbols work to make an allegorical novel that set a precedence in English classrooms for times to come. Each symbol in Lord of the Flies varies in meaning…

its conflicts was not only influenced by the culture of America at that time but also to the authors personal life. “As Willy in the play was influenced by Arthur’s Uncle Manny Newman who was also a salesman and saw a competition between his son and Arthur.” There were different attitudes towards the American dream that were portrayed by each character differently in the play. For example, Willy strongly believed in it which made him also believe that he was always at the top, “big”, and…

Hysteria is shown by groups everywhere throughout the world. It is a critical element in making and particularly breaking connections and relationships. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, hysteria plays an important role of tearing apart the community of Salem by creating an environment where people act on their grudges, which is demonstrated by many of the characters throughout the play, such as Abigail, Proctor, and Danforth as they in the end ruin each other all the while. Hysteria…

word no matter what shall happen. The idea of Troth is the central focus of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. During the Christmas season celebrations, a very peculiar knight rides in and demands to meet the lord of the palace. The ruler, being King Arthur himself welcomes the knight with open arms, completely disregarding the knight’s emerald tint, inviting him to take…

Angela’s Ashes is a memoir by Frank McCourt, published in 1996. It takes place briefly in New York and then moves on to Limerick during the 1930s and 1940s. Frank McCourt lives with his family in Brooklyn where his mother, Angela, struggles to feed the children and his father, Malachy, spends all his wages on alcohol. When Frank’s baby sister, Margaret, dies and Angela falls into depression the McCourts decide to return to Ireland where more problems await them. Growing up in Ireland,…

John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Award winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces takes place in New Orleans during the early 1960s. The novel follows Ignatius J. Reilly, a rather bulbous man, as he searches for a job to help support his mother. His quest for a job is marked by constant episodes of hilarity as his rotten personality thwarts even his best attempts to find employment. Throughout the novel he often displays his gluttonous and conceited personality. One of the things in the novel that is…

White-collar crime, according to Merriam-Webster, refers to, “a crime that typically involves stealing money from a company and that is done by the people who have important positions in the company”. In modern society, white-collar crime may not be as obvious as violent crime, but its consequences leave major impacts on the world, particularly financially. Beginning in 2002, Wells Fargo began transforming into one of the largest criminal enterprises in history. Over the past 15 years, this…

“I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget” (“Top Nine Arthur Miller Quotes”). This interesting quote is from Arthur Miller. He was an American writer who focused many of his plays on real life issues like racism and discrimination (“Arthur Miller”). His play The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1692. This was the time of the Salem witch trials. The play The Crucible may have been written 64 years ago, but it is still widely read in…

In Act 2 Scene 3 of William Shakespeare’s play Othello, we hear a soliloquy of Iago. Soliloquies are essential in a play as it is the only time the actor is able to explain their thought process to the audience. In typical soliloquies, the character is not acting for someone else. The character, in essence, is able to portray his/her true self. Through Iago’s soliloquy, the audience is able to hear his malicious intentions. The audience is introduced to his evil mind though his appalling tone,…