Glenn Miller

The Death of a Salesman, is about a well-rounded and thriving salesman who is idolized by his family and friends named Willy Loman. Throughout the story Willy is struggling with an identity crisis and his family is suffering the consequences. After being fired he has no hope for the future and believed his image as a success is shattered. He enters a downward spiral in which he cannot accept his present and feels he has no future, except as a cashed-in life insurance policy. This causes him to…

Analyzing Thematic Ideas in The Crucible The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a novel about the Salem Witch Trials in 1963 which was written in 1952, symbolizing the events that took place during the Red Scare. Throughout the novel, Miller incorporates many thematic ideas and elements into his writing. Themes are important throughout a piece of literature because the ideas expressed show the morale of the story, or the lessons being portrayed. These ideas connect to anyone and everyone in the…

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a play inspired by the Salem Witch Trials, which occured in May 1693. Miller, born on October 17, 1915, played a huge role in American theater in the twentieth century. He was an American playwright and essayist. One of his most famous plays is The Crucible; which is a play about the time of the Salem Witch Trials. He decided to write this play because the US administration started a nationwide restriction on any covens or individuals that supported Communism…

In Indian Captivity Narratives, typically a white woman, who is of European descent, is kidnapped and held captive by American Indians who consider her to be uncivilized and of the wrong beliefs. These narratives, which typically are autobiographical, capture the interest of readers and create reactions of shock, empathy, and inspiration. Narratives as such anticipate popular fiction, especially romance, and prefigure gothic literature with the “depictions of Indian as dark, hellish, cunning,…

Hundreds of people falsely accused of believing in something they may not even believe in. This happened in the book The Crucible and during the Red Scare. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the Red Scare in the McCarthy era because they both revolve around false accusations and differing opinions or beliefs. These false accusations lead to people being wrongly questioned and left them living in fear simply due to their opinion and beliefs. In the Mccarthy era, and in the book The…

Trials during the 1690s, written by Arthur Miller is an allegory to to the McCarthy Trials of the 1950s. An allegory is a story with two levels of meaning - literal and symbolical. In an allegory, the characters, events and instances all relate to real people, events, and instances (“Definition of Allegory” R104). Characters like Abigail Williams, John Proctor and Judge Hathorne represent the historical figures: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, writer Arthur Miller, and FBI Director J. Edgar…

The reminiscing downfall of the insecure salesman and his misguided perception of success leads him to fail within the success driven environment that he is to be surrounded in. Within the play of “ death of a salesman” written by Arthur Miller the author asserts the main character Willy Loman main flaw being insecurity demonstrated in his boastful behavior claiming he is rather a “vital” necessity in New England. As well as he self praises himself in boasting that he indeed has expanded the…

Arthur Miller was an American playwright who produced the play "A View from the Bridge", first staged on September 29, 1955. It was made into two acts after being unsuccessful as a one Act verse drama. The play is set in the 1950s America, in an Italian-American neighbourhood called Red Hook, a slum area, in New York at the Brooklyn Bridge . Miller heard the story from a lawyer who worked with longshoremen and soon he developed it into a drama first staged on September 29, 1955. It was related…

“That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it,” as Chris Gardner once said. ”The pursuit of happyness,” directed by Gabriele Muccino and released in 2008 is a movie based on the story of Chris Gardner, a man who loses everything, but eventually gains everything. In the movie, he is a hard-working, caring and loving father, who struggles financially to provide for his son. This causes life to become tough; however, Muccino illustrates to find…

In The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History, Peter C. Hoffer closely examines the many complexities of the bizarre Salem Witchcraft Trials and offers explanations as to what led up to and caused the terrible event. In the book, Hoffer uses analogies and insight to village life to support his explanations. This paper will review Hoffer’s re accounting of the trials, his theories on the trails, and the way in which he presents his arguments. Summary This section contains a summary of The…