Monroe County

The title of this art piece is called Marylin Diptych. The craftsman for this piece is Andy Warhol. He made this art bit of silkscreen print, in the year 1967, for Marilyn Monroe within three or four years since she had passed away. This piece was distributed through Factory Additions, an organization he made so he can make and appropriate his prints. The original piece is presently claimed by Tate Modern. On the left side are twenty-five pictures that are printed in color while on the right…

Arthur Miller uses many symbols in his play, Death Of A Salesman to help enhance and strengthen the themes he portraits in the novel. The stockings, seeds, and diamonds mentioned throughout the play help add stability to the themes of betrayal (stockings), failure (seeds), and the american dream (diamonds). The diamonds symbolize wealth and the american dream. Even if the money earned that goes towards ¨the american dream¨ is earned in a bad way. Ben went to the African jungle and basically…

Marilyn Monroe struts into the room, her classic white dress swaying in the breeze, her fill-the-room grin brightens the scene and you think to yourself, “gee, I wish I could be as famous as her.” Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Abigail Adams, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, Beyonce are a few names that come to mind when we think of “famous women in history.” In a high school assembly I learned that there are a few kinds of people in the world: those who make the news, those who report the news, and those…

An American Dream Tragedy In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, protagonist Willy Loman is a salesman with a wife, Linda, and their two children, Biff, and Happy (Miller). Loman seeks approval from everyone and thinks everyone must like him for him to be successful. He is also hard on his two sons, Biff and Happy, and disapproves of their dreams. Loman sees how socially accepted people who play sports and have fame are, and so he tries directing their life by wanting Biff to be…

“Marilyn Monroe”. For starters her real name was Norma Jeane Mortensen born in California who grew up with a very rough and unstable childhood. Marilyn Monroe died at a very young age, 36 years old. Marilyn Monroe had to use perseverance, passion, and creavity just to survive her struggle upcoming rise to fame. Which takes a lot of movation, and patience that most people lack. To begin with, as a young child, Marilyn Monroe used perseverance to overcome life changing obstacles. Firstly, Monroe…

The notion of success in American society is a woeful reminder of how people will accessibly shed off their moral and ethical principles in the desperate effort to fulfill their dreams and ambitions. They will try their best to do whatever they need to do in order to attain that dream even if it requires their dignity to be jeopardized. This ties into the issue of the American Dream. This is because in the play, Willy Loman has a twisted vision of it since to him “the dream is not achieved by…

I believed that you assigned us this reading for multiple reasons. One reason is that we should find a calling that we actually enjoy and that we don’t do it just for the money. If we do it just for the money we could end up depressed and have a tragic ending to our lives. Willy Loman couldn’t realize that he was chasing the wrong dream. He was in a race to catch that dream, but his lungs expired and the dream left him in the dust. As in the poem “The Road Not Taken,” we have one chance to…

Willy Loman talks about Dave Singleman in his personal narrative, the man who inspired him to take the path and lifestyle of a salesman. Willy strives to be like Singleman and is particularly fond of one thing about him: his ability to be liked. Miller utilizes Singleman’s life as the fantasy Willy is thriving for. Willy even desires the way Singleman passes: “When he died, -and he died, by the way, the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers….- when he died hungers of salesman and…

Throughout every story read, there is a theme that the author uses to teach the reader a valuable lesson. The theme of the story is used to get an important message across to the reader, allowing them to possibly put themselves in the shoes of the characters in the story. In the play Death of a Salesman, the author uses not only one strong theme throughout the story but multiple themes in an enjoyable manner to let the reader learn from the troubles the main characters are going through. The…

In the play, “Death of a Salesman”, written by Arthur Miller, in 1949. Willy Loman failed to recognize his own shortcomings. He felt as if he was boxed in, in what used to be an open spacious area to live.“The way they boxed us in here. Bricks and windows, windows and bricks” (Miller 17). The neighborhood had grew and been built-up, while he still had a small modest home. Willy Loman had several other shortcomings about himself such as when thought of himself as being the top salesman around…