Glenn Miller

In the play “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller the protagonist Willy Loman has a tragic flaw that leads to his demise. Willy’s obsession with material wealth and popularity prevent him from achieving happiness in his life. This obsession prevents him from successfully having a career and being able to retire at an old age. Throughout the play Willy makes many mistakes with raising his sons Biff and Happy and mistakes at his work. These mistakes come directly from his philosophy on life.…

summary of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman) Arthur Miller is an expert at provoking controversy and emotion through the events of a play. Several of his most famous pieces include The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, both very controversial pieces for their time. The extreme emotion and thought that is provoked upon reading or watching either of these texts is a direct effect of the realistic yet challenging scenarios he presents. Miller takes his audience through a rollercoaster of events…

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…

spiritual peacefulness, and motivating them to contribute to the improvement of the societies, etc. In the play, "The Crucible" written by Author Miller, it reveals certain truths about the problem of religious belief in society, how some people behave due to their believes and how their behavior can affect other…

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is an allegory, meaning it can be interpreted to reveal hidden meanings, usually political or moral ones. This all happened during the Salem Witch trials, where people were initially scared of the idea and spread of Communism. This made people believe that anyone could be a communist, and this ended up making people believe others were witches. The people of Salem went around pointing fingers at others to take the blame off of them that they could be witches. They…

The common man, Miller maintains, knows this fear better than any king, queen, dictator, or politician. Joe Keller knows the consuming fear of not being able to provide for his family. The business is all that matters to Joe Keller; his entire world “had a forty-foot front, it ended at the building line” (Miller 63). Joe’s entire life consisted of make money to provide for his family and sons. Like Oedipus, Joe Keller’s…

As a child develops, they look up to their parents for guidance, whether it be good support or bad support. In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, paternal guidance is present. In particular, Biff Loman in the play DOAS and Laertes in Hamlet both believe they are superior to women, believe success is inevitable, and have difficulty with impulse control. Ultimately, as a result of poor paternal influences, both characters have confused values. Superiority to…

Anthem is a book that was written by Ayn Rand in 1938. The setting is in a communist community in the future where man has entered another dark age. One man in the community, Equality 7-2521, is different from all his brothers and tells himself that he is cursed because he speaks unspeakable things and wishes for things no men wish for. The community they all live in has many rules and nobody has any freedom. The new society that Equality will create will have three main rules that are free…

“The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in the month of June in 1948. The story is about an annual tradition, called the lottery, held in an anonymous small village. All of the villagers gather for the annual event and Mr. Summers conducts a quick roll call. Each one of the residents of the village draws a piece of paper from the black box. As this happens, the villagers start to talk with one another how some nearby villages have stopped following the tradition of the lottery.…

The Crucible, an American tragedy written by playwright Arthur Miller, is a dramatized piece of literature that emphasizes heavily on the dark and sadistic events that occurred in colonial Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials, and the consequences of the pious and demented Puritans. Of the many characters involved in, and executed as a result of, The Crucible pinpoints its emotional and climactic ending on the surrendering of John Proctor, falsely accused of witchcraft, to his death by…