Drama

Shockingly, the Salesman Dies: On Character, Circumstance, and Audience Perceptions in Death of a Salesman and A Raisin in the Sun Both A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller capture families at points of conflict, both among themselves, and with the societies they inhabit. In the case of Miller’s play, the Loman family is in financial despair due to the deceit of their family patriarch, Willy. Comparatively, Hansberry portrays the Younger family who…

The title of this play is The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. William Shakespeare is the author of this play. I would like to briefly introduce you to character Marcus Brutus. Marcus Brutus was a servant and a close friend to Julius Caesar. Brutus is considered the tragic hero in this play. A tragic hero is defined as a literary character who makes a judgement error that leads to their own death. The role of a tragic hero for Marcus Benedict was through his noble standing, fatal flow, and legacy…

Poetry Explication Assignment: “Mr. Flood’s Party” Edwin Arlington Robinson has been stated to be “one of the most prolific major American poets of the twentieth century.” However, Robinson is remembered for a only a handful of short poems. Declared in the New York Times Book Review, “Edwin Arlington Robinson is poetry. I can think of no other living writer who has so consistently dedicated his life to his work.” Robinson is considered extraordinary amongst other American poets because of his…

The play Wit by Margaret Edson is set in 1995 and it is at a hospital. The mood throughout the play is somber. The play is about professor Vivian Bearing. She gets diagnosed with stage four advanced metastatic ovarian cancer. This play shows her looking back on her past and trying to come to terms with the diagnosis. She decides to go along with a new experimental treatment. The treatment ends and its doesn’t work. She ends up dying. However, she never fully comes to terms with death, or the…

Arthur Miller is one of the popular authors of the 20th century (“Arthur Miller”); having sold over 250 million books, his contribution to literature is extensive. He has a lot of novels, plays, and fiction stories written. He became a well-known writer after writing the play Death of a Salesman. An interesting thing about his career and the play is that he wrote Death of a Salesman in just one day and won three awards from it (“Arthur Miller Facts”). In the play, Death of a Salesman, Arthur…

Throughout numerous literary pieces, we commonly see the universal archetype of the “Tragic Hero”. A tragic hero is defined as a character who makes a choice that will inevitably lead to their destruction. According to Aristotle, all tragic hero must have six traits to be considered one. These are hamartia, hubris, peripeteia, anagnorisis, nemesis, and catharsis. To go into more depth of these characteristics, hamartia is a tragic flaw that causes the downfall of the tragic hero. Examples of a…

Death of a Prince (An analysis of three important symbols in Death of a Salesman) Every human is unique in their own way and they all die a death that is similar, but yet different. It is similar in the fact that everyone takes their last breath, but different in the fact that they choose when they die or they let nature choose for them. Arthur Miller can be considered a master not only of writing plays, but also plays of death or tragedy. Miller’s plays follow the Aristotelian tragedy style in…

The characteristics of many phlegmatic personalities include, mainly, being very introverted and peaceful. Out of any of the characters in the play, Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, Linda Loman, possesses the characteristics of a Phlegmatic personality. In Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman, a salesman, husband, and father, begins to go through a hard time in his life with hardship in work, family, and social life. Throughout the play, Linda tries her hardest to keep her family together,…

Shakespeare wrote many things one being “The Tragedy of Macbeth.” He wrote many things and they continue to carry on throughout the years. This play was written as a play and is acted out and wrote in a book. It’s about a man named Macbeth who wants to become king and will do whatever it takes to become king with the influences of his life. He lets things get to his head and ruins many things and isn’t liked by others. While watching the play I realized there were many similarities and…

In search of the American dream, one may unknowingly have their lives corrode away little by little. In Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is out in search the American dream, seeking to become wealthy in order to love and support his family. However, a crucial flaw suspends him from success, causing him to almost perfectly fit into Aristotle’s ideology of a tragic hero. Yet Arthur Miller does not create Willy as one among kings, rather Miller forges an everyday man, with the same potential for…